A vida é arte do encontro: interfaces entre trabalho profissional, territórios, sujeitas/os e saberes no cotidiano um diálogo necessário para a área do serviço social

Abstract

This thesis aims to understand the mediations present in the professional interventions carried out by social workers who operate in the particularity of social work in housing in the city of São Paulo, in order to recognize their theoretical-methodological, ethicalpolitical and technical-operational framework, analyzing the meanings and implications of the materialization of professional work. The research problematizes the interconnections established by professionals and the interfaces that challenge them in the development of their daily work in the first historical quarter of the 21st century. Additionally, the analysis considers the advance of the far-right and the consequent expansion of expressions of conservatism. The studies highlight the grammars and actions that have an impact on the removal of housing social work from the territories, including changes in the work environment (with transformations to the demands placed on the profession), the worsening of the processes of precariousness that affect the sphere of work and the reconfiguration of the very dimension of politics and all the public life and social relations spheres through neoliberal rationality. The historicaldialectical method used in this study makes it possible to grasp the contradictions and dynamics of reality, from the perspective of totality and the mediations necessary for this movement. The research design is based on bibliographic studies, with a close look at ethnographic studies and the fundamental use of research diary entries as a result of participant observation and the author's professional experience, as well as exploratory interviews with leading researchers, in addition to individual, in-depth interviews with six social workers working in housing social work. The results of the research reflect significant transformations caused by the neoliberalization of the nation-state, with significant contexts for the deepening of social inequalities aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has further favored the removal of professionals from the territories, among other factors that are determinants for the general picture of greater bureaucratization of the work developed. However, this thesis argues that there is a lot of power in social work, suggesting that the profession can build and collaborate with critical readings of social reality. The research highlights the need to strengthen collective work, defending the importance of professionals returning to the place of encounter, betting on the construction of bonds for the development of socio-educational work and the potential of the political-pedagogical dimension of the Social Work profession