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With a focus on neoliberalism and its intersection with systems of oppression, inequalities, and the regulation of queer knowledge and subjectivities, Queering Professionalism provides a distinct contribution to the emerging literature on the regulation and professionalisation of 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals and others marginalised by cisheteronormativity within the helping and social service professions. This collection seeks to queer and disrupt ideas and understandings of the 'helping professions' as benevolent and inherently caring by bringing together a diverse range of authors from different fields within the helping professions, such as child and youth care, education, early childhood education, dietetics, and social work. The book draws connections between neoliberalism, professionalisation, structures of cisheteronormativity, and other intersecting oppressions to examine the possibilities and pitfalls of professionalism. Contributors come from various social service and helping professions to collectively critique how neoliberalism operates to silence and regulate marginalised perspectives within the various social service and education fields. By thinking with and employing queer theoretical frameworks, Queering Professionalism reimagines and disrupts neoliberal regimes that rationalize the violent conditions within and outside of helping institutions and orientations.

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9781487550929

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""Queering Professionalism opens a new chapter of 'the impossible professions, ' Freud's term for the difficulties of authority and desire made within intersubjective situations for education, law, and medicine. Readers will find the breaking heart of educational critique as the chapters contend with the queer workings of humanity. Beyond definitions and their terms of engagement, the invitation is to 'come as you are, ' and study those in the helping professions dedicated to more life, more freedom, more play, more discourse, more experience, and more imagination.""--Deborah P. Britzman, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, York University and author ofWhen History Returns: Psychoanalytic Quests for Humane Learning ""Queering Professionalism is a timely, invaluable, must-read collection of expansive, insightful and critical reflections for students, practitioners, and educators in helping professions who aim to embrace intersectional and anti-oppressive approaches to deconstruct what it means to act 'professionally.' The book offers incisive and inspiring critiques of the colonial, racist, classist, sexist, heterosexist, ableist, and sanist roots of professionalism as a site of social control and proposes innovative ethos to work with marginalized communities.""--Alexandre Baril, Associate Professor in the School of Social Work, University of Ottawa and author of Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide ""A critical and insightful collection of writings that decontextualize and critique notions of 'professionalism' from both a variety of social locations and caring sectors regarding the ongoing insidiousness of neoliberalism and its deleterious effects on facilitating such care. Through queer resistance this collection contests neoliberal professionalism and importantly provides alternative approaches that will benefit queer educators and service providers, students, and service recipients alike.""--Nick Mulé, Professor in the School of Social Work and the School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, York University

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Adam Davies is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph. Cameron Greensmith is an associate professor in the Department of Social Work and Human Services at Kennesaw State University.

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