Participatory planning intercultural: Reflections for social work

• Main Author: Esperanza Gómez Hernández
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Autónoma Indígena de México 2012-01-01
• Series: Ra Ximhai
• Subjects: Planning; Participation; Interculturality
• Online Access: http://uaim.edu.mx/webraximhai/Ej-23articulosPDF/11-Planeacion-participativa-intercultural.pdf

Since the nineties, participatory planning has emerged as a linking strategy for various social, political, economic and cultural sectors that assessed it as a potential for building consensus in the making of local processes forsocial improvement. Similarly, it was legitimized as a setting for practice for professionals trained in the social sciences, mainly Social Work. This article, from a geopolitical and geo-cultural perspective, presents contextual elements that determined the configuration of participatory planning in Latin America. These elements shall be staged in order to redefine diversity and the intercultural perspective that has been linked to this mobilizing strategy, against the institutionalized discourse of development and for the emergence of crisis and ruptures with this social paradigm from other practices and worldviews of life in the territories.