Is Empowerment Feasible in Times of Crisis? Rethinking Human Development in the New Century
A reflection is made on the feasibility of psychosocial empowerment today. After describing the socio-psychological effects of the current economic crisis, a proposal of the main questions implied in empowerment (ideological-theoretical meaning, practical feasibility, operational level, subjective o...
| Autor Principal: | Sánchez, Alipio; Universidad de Barcelona |
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| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Idioma: | spa |
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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
2012
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http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/revPsycho/article/view/3690 |
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A reflection is made on the feasibility of psychosocial empowerment today. After describing the socio-psychological effects of the current economic crisis, a proposal of the main questions implied in empowerment (ideological-theoretical meaning, practical feasibility, operational level, subjective objective character) is made, and difficulties of microsocial empowerment examined in the face of its operational divergences with macrosocial power (concentrated, opaque, distant, and incomprehensible) in postindustrial societies. Some challenges for community psychology are then pointed
out reviewing the limitations of its -explanatory-ideological, technical, personal-moral, institutional- means in relation to the ambitious ends of empowerment, showing, finally, the three core components of the empowering process (subjective awareness, interaction-organization, social action) and the limitations (and possibilities) of psychosocial action regarding them. |
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