ABSTRACT
One of the central aspects promoted by the global definition of social work, approved by the IASSW General Assembly and the IFSW General Meeting in 2014, is the respect for diversity and the valuing of Indigenous knowledge, which are guiding principles of this discipline. Within this framework, this chapter seeks to unveil the colonial and patriarchal rationality that reduces and limits public policies, as well as to show the contributions of Indigenous Feminisms and the visibilisation of non-hegemonic knowledge that has been excluded in the process of creating public policies. For this purpose, the notion of ‘monocultural’ public policies is addressed, which underlies an idea of social development that excludes racialised people, particularly women. Based on these reflections, a process of decolonisation and depatriarchalisation of public policies is proposed and related to the challenges for the construction of a decolonial social work with a gender perspective located in Chile.
