Queering Professionalism

Pitfalls and Possibilities

Adam Davies, Cameron Greensmith

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University of Toronto Press
28 March 2025

Social work; Organisation & management of education

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.

Edited by: Adam Davies, Cameron Greensmith
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9781487552510
ISBN 10: 1487552513
Pages: 348
Publication Date: 28 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Acknowledgments Foreword: Finding the “Correct” Emotional Register for Queers in Neoliberal Times Ken Moffatt Introduction Adam Davies and Cameron Greensmith Section I: Queering Professionalism 1. (Un)Becoming an Ethical Professional: Queer (Im)Possibilities and Pedagogical Practices Jennifer White 2. Post-Secondary Education Killed the Buffalo: Queering Indigenization through an Indigenous Harm Reduction Approach Lana Ray 3. From Liability to Asset: Queer/ing Teacher Professionalism Jamie Anderson and Tonya Callaghan 4. Teacher Professionalism in a Neoliberal World Trudy Keil and Pamela Osmond-Johnson 5. Heteroprofessionalism and Its Neoliberal (Dis)Contents: A Critical Review and Update Robert C Mizzi Section II: Queer Methods 6. You Better Werk: Disrupting and Queering Professionalism in Early Childhood Education & Care Harny Carlos Chan Lim and Janelle Brady 7. Towards a More Caring Teaching Education: A Duoethnographic Exploration of Whiteness, Cisheteronormativity, Ableism, and Professionalism from Two Would-Be Teachers Bishop Owis and Lee Iskander 8. Professor Drag: Queerness and Mess in the Neoliberal University Ben Anderson-Nathe and Hazel (Bobbi) Ali Zaman 9. Leaning Sideways: Finding Queer Mad Moments in Teaching Early Childhood Education and Human Services Adam Davies and Cameron Greensmith Section III: Queering “Professional” Practice 10. Competently Queer: Reflections on Teaching my Queerness to Dietetic Students Phillip Joy 11. The Art of Caring: Queering the Profession of a Nurse Amy Roach 12. Black, Queer, and Here to Stay: Challenging White Professionalism in Higher Education, Sociology, and Anthropology Malissa Bryan Conclusion Adam Davies and Cameron Greensmith Epilogue: Queer Affect as Collective Refusal and Path to Deviate from Neoliberal Ethical Desires Fritz Pino Contributors Index

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.

Reviews for Queering Professionalism: Pitfalls and Possibilities

""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