Queer Professionals and Settler Colonialism : Engaging Decolonial Thought Within Organizations / Cameron Greensmith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greensmith, Cameron, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Settler colonialism.

Sexual minorities.

White LGBTQ+ people.

Queer organizations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2022]

Summary:

This book analyzes queer organizations in Canada and explores the ways health care, counselling, and social services address the intersecting oppressions facing Indigenous people, families, and communities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Moving beyond Acknowledging Privilege or Complicity in White Settler Colonialism

Chapter One. Understanding the Historical and Contemporary Realities of (White) Queer Organizations in Toronto

Chapter Two “We Had the Rainbow”: Queer Organizations and the Desire for White Settler Multiculturalism

Chapter Three “People Like Me?” Non-Indigenous LGBTQ+ Professionals’ Helping Motivations

Chapter Four. Necropolitical Care: The Practice of Indigenous Exclusion

Chapter Five. A Call to Action: Queerness, Complicity, and Deflecting Responsibility

Conclusion: Building Decolonial Alliances and Working towards Queer Coalitions across Difference

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4875-3685-2

1-4875-3686-0

OCLC:

1280312096