Gestión del deseo en la intervención social: claves estéticas y el riesgo de la participación

Summary

There is a growing interest from social policy to incorporate the other (user, beneficiary, resident, etc.) in social practice: its view, concerns, interests. Many times, this intention appears under the category of participation, which is intended to be installed as a way of doing in processes undertaken by the State, by private and their CSR, local governments and NGOs. This document will show how these participatory good intentions become dangerous, if it is not assumed the challenge of incorporating the other in their complexity, often generating responsesanesthetized, which only serve to reduce or denie their status as subjects. Thus, the criticism to participation is proposed as an example to open a category of desire from the aesthetic dimension of social practice –negative rational display– generating new employment opportunities, through what we will call the “management desire for social practice”.