Women researchers, disobedience and possibilities in the field of social work research.

A reflection on trajectories at the National University of Mar del Plata

Abstract

In this article we propose to reflect on our academic and personal trajectories as women, social workers and researchers at the National University of Mar del Plata, recovering the contributions of the decolonial, Latin American and feminist perspective, from the (in) discipline.
Understanding that the coloniality of knowledge has built a valid, universal, neutral and objective “scientific knowledge”, we propose to analyze the implications of this domination within the field of Social Work research. Understanding it as a discipline that the modern-colonial system has installed and legitimized as subalternized within the Social Sciences.
For this reason, we recover our experiences in the framework of the Research Grants of the National University of Mar del Plata (UNMDP), Argentina, and the conditions of possibility developed in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Social Work. It is in this sense that we also seek to retake those theoretical foundations raised by Latin American Feminist Researchers who precede us.