Social Workers as "Transitional Narrative”, The Problem of visibility of Temporality And Historicity of “Población Callampa” (The Population Slum) of Santiago 1952-1959

Abstract

This investigative work is aimed to problematize from the category of “Transitional Narrative”, developed by the historiography of Subaltern Studies, how social workers talk, both of the school of Social Service of the University of Chile (U de Chile), and the School Elvira Cruchaga Matte Annex of the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC), by developing their field of intervention in the informal Habitats of the Población Callampa (population slum), between 1952-1959. They ended up depicting a cronocentric narration, that would turn the temporality and historicity of these main social actors oblivious, and leading them instead into a linear transition searching to legitimize the modern habitat and thus the bourgeois society.