Susana Penalva

Searching to highlight the debate on public regulation, professions and «models of professionalism» emerging in Western Europe with an analysis of recent Latin American experience in terms of public policies and «dealing with poverty and precariousness», this article focuses on a questioning of what «local Welfare» represents and implies as a normative frame of reference for public action and social intervention, hypothesizing a «new social question» governance remaking the social professions’ missions and practices....