Vol. 32 No. 2 (2023): Thematic issue COMMUNITY INTERVENTION

Community intervention, as an action aimed at a planned social change, as a result of the needs identified or felt by a local population and faced with their participation, has made significant advances in recent years, not only in terms of its foundational theories, philosophies of action or recommended intervention models, but also in terms of the methodologies, strategies and/or techniques implemented.

The improvement of the living and living conditions of a given community configures a field of action and reflection of a transdisciplinary and multiprofessional nature that, while not being able to do without human and material resources and a certain network of partnerships, mobilizes the community itself as a protagonist in its process of emancipation and collective development. Rehearsing an interrogative route, the following questions are asked:

· What changes have occurred in recent years in the world that justify the emergence of new theoretical and practical approaches to community intervention?   · What epistemological challenges do agents face in order to (continue) to articulate theory and practice in community intervention?   · What (new) methodologies, methods and intervention strategies deserve to be highlighted in contemporary times?   · How to articulate, in community intervention, the triad: community, participation and human development?   This thematic is oriented towards themes of community intervention from a uni/inter/transdisciplinary perspective (anthropology, psychology, sociology, education/social work, among others), applied to the most diverse areas (school, social, cultural, economic, environmental, health, etc.), with a view to facing challenges of inclusion, cohesion and social justice; promoting gender equality, learning and employment opportunities; civic and political participation of the community.