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Questions, figures, flows, and formations in economies of difference

Articles	The profession	The professions’ questions	Questions of the professions	Economy of difference
Nyawaga and Mitra	Black professionals in frontline work	How do minoritized workers navigate the tensions in the competing demands for being seen to do their work well?	Why are professions defined by majoritized identities?	Frontline professionalism taken as synonymous with Whiteness.
Brandhorst and Meisenbach	Correctional officers	How can research help correctional officers cope with the stresses of their work that may foster mental health problems?	How do the profession and studies of it cast mental health problems as outside of what it means to be a good correctional officer?	Physical, emotional, and intellectual distancing between correctional officers and inmates.
Biss	Emergency medical services (EMS) providers	How can research help EMS providers retain their composure? How does EMS providers’ facework mitigate and deflect inappropriate requests?	What defines requests as inside and outside the boundaries of the profession? Why do the problems of underserved and poor communities fall to this profession but not others?	EMS providers differ from their clients in that they are not in crisis, and they differ from other workers in that there are tasks for them and not for them.
Golden and Benchercki	Community health workers	How do community health workers navigate the competing commitments of being a community member and health professional and the different forms of knowing associated with those professions?	How are the jurisdictional boundaries of healthcare professions and community professions constituted?	Community health workers as a profession are defined as simultaneously both inside the community (different from other health professions) and outside the community (different from community members).
Coker et al.	Adventure workers	How do adventure workers push back on received notions of professionalism to advocate for their work as professional, as ‘real work?’	What forces define what is and is not professional? Why is professional status worth seeking?	Adventure workers are professionals because they do ‘real work’ unlike adventure hobbyists.
Hayes, Kulkarni, and Kee	Cyberinfrastructure professionals	How does cyberinfrastructure professionalize and recruit workers to the profession?	What is the nature of cyberinfrastructure’s struggle to professionalize?	Cyberinfrastructure professionals differ from professionals in allied domains because of the distinctive bodies, practices, and spaces of cyberinfrastructure work.

Articles	The profession	The professions’ questions	Questions of the professions	Economy of difference
Nyawaga and Mitra	Black professionals in frontline work	How do minoritized workers navigate the tensions in the competing demands for being seen to do their work well?	Why are professions defined by majoritized identities?	Frontline professionalism taken as synonymous with Whiteness.
Brandhorst and Meisenbach	Correctional officers	How can research help correctional officers cope with the stresses of their work that may foster mental health problems?	How do the profession and studies of it cast mental health problems as outside of what it means to be a good correctional officer?	Physical, emotional, and intellectual distancing between correctional officers and inmates.
Biss	Emergency medical services (EMS) providers	How can research help EMS providers retain their composure? How does EMS providers’ facework mitigate and deflect inappropriate requests?	What defines requests as inside and outside the boundaries of the profession? Why do the problems of underserved and poor communities fall to this profession but not others?	EMS providers differ from their clients in that they are not in crisis, and they differ from other workers in that there are tasks for them and not for them.
Golden and Benchercki	Community health workers	How do community health workers navigate the competing commitments of being a community member and health professional and the different forms of knowing associated with those professions?	How are the jurisdictional boundaries of healthcare professions and community professions constituted?	Community health workers as a profession are defined as simultaneously both inside the community (different from other health professions) and outside the community (different from community members).
Coker et al.	Adventure workers	How do adventure workers push back on received notions of professionalism to advocate for their work as professional, as ‘real work?’	What forces define what is and is not professional? Why is professional status worth seeking?	Adventure workers are professionals because they do ‘real work’ unlike adventure hobbyists.
Hayes, Kulkarni, and Kee	Cyberinfrastructure professionals	How does cyberinfrastructure professionalize and recruit workers to the profession?	What is the nature of cyberinfrastructure’s struggle to professionalize?	Cyberinfrastructure professionals differ from professionals in allied domains because of the distinctive bodies, practices, and spaces of cyberinfrastructure work.

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Questions, figures, flows, and formations in economies of difference

Articles	The profession	The professions’ questions	Questions of the professions	Economy of difference
Nyawaga and Mitra	Black professionals in frontline work	How do minoritized workers navigate the tensions in the competing demands for being seen to do their work well?	Why are professions defined by majoritized identities?	Frontline professionalism taken as synonymous with Whiteness.
Brandhorst and Meisenbach	Correctional officers	How can research help correctional officers cope with the stresses of their work that may foster mental health problems?	How do the profession and studies of it cast mental health problems as outside of what it means to be a good correctional officer?	Physical, emotional, and intellectual distancing between correctional officers and inmates.
Biss	Emergency medical services (EMS) providers	How can research help EMS providers retain their composure? How does EMS providers’ facework mitigate and deflect inappropriate requests?	What defines requests as inside and outside the boundaries of the profession? Why do the problems of underserved and poor communities fall to this profession but not others?	EMS providers differ from their clients in that they are not in crisis, and they differ from other workers in that there are tasks for them and not for them.
Golden and Benchercki	Community health workers	How do community health workers navigate the competing commitments of being a community member and health professional and the different forms of knowing associated with those professions?	How are the jurisdictional boundaries of healthcare professions and community professions constituted?	Community health workers as a profession are defined as simultaneously both inside the community (different from other health professions) and outside the community (different from community members).
Coker et al.	Adventure workers	How do adventure workers push back on received notions of professionalism to advocate for their work as professional, as ‘real work?’	What forces define what is and is not professional? Why is professional status worth seeking?	Adventure workers are professionals because they do ‘real work’ unlike adventure hobbyists.
Hayes, Kulkarni, and Kee	Cyberinfrastructure professionals	How does cyberinfrastructure professionalize and recruit workers to the profession?	What is the nature of cyberinfrastructure’s struggle to professionalize?	Cyberinfrastructure professionals differ from professionals in allied domains because of the distinctive bodies, practices, and spaces of cyberinfrastructure work.

Articles	The profession	The professions’ questions	Questions of the professions	Economy of difference
Nyawaga and Mitra	Black professionals in frontline work	How do minoritized workers navigate the tensions in the competing demands for being seen to do their work well?	Why are professions defined by majoritized identities?	Frontline professionalism taken as synonymous with Whiteness.
Brandhorst and Meisenbach	Correctional officers	How can research help correctional officers cope with the stresses of their work that may foster mental health problems?	How do the profession and studies of it cast mental health problems as outside of what it means to be a good correctional officer?	Physical, emotional, and intellectual distancing between correctional officers and inmates.
Biss	Emergency medical services (EMS) providers	How can research help EMS providers retain their composure? How does EMS providers’ facework mitigate and deflect inappropriate requests?	What defines requests as inside and outside the boundaries of the profession? Why do the problems of underserved and poor communities fall to this profession but not others?	EMS providers differ from their clients in that they are not in crisis, and they differ from other workers in that there are tasks for them and not for them.
Golden and Benchercki	Community health workers	How do community health workers navigate the competing commitments of being a community member and health professional and the different forms of knowing associated with those professions?	How are the jurisdictional boundaries of healthcare professions and community professions constituted?	Community health workers as a profession are defined as simultaneously both inside the community (different from other health professions) and outside the community (different from community members).
Coker et al.	Adventure workers	How do adventure workers push back on received notions of professionalism to advocate for their work as professional, as ‘real work?’	What forces define what is and is not professional? Why is professional status worth seeking?	Adventure workers are professionals because they do ‘real work’ unlike adventure hobbyists.
Hayes, Kulkarni, and Kee	Cyberinfrastructure professionals	How does cyberinfrastructure professionalize and recruit workers to the profession?	What is the nature of cyberinfrastructure’s struggle to professionalize?	Cyberinfrastructure professionals differ from professionals in allied domains because of the distinctive bodies, practices, and spaces of cyberinfrastructure work.