Postcolonial Theory and Humanism: A Framework for International Work in the Counseling Profession

The Estrangement of U.S. Colonialism from Counseling Discourses on Social Justice: Examining Intimacy and Care as Strategies to Sustain Democratic Citizenship

In promoting social equality in the name of democratic citizenship, counseling discourses on social justice are largely disconnected from their U.S. colonial heritage. As history is typically erased from theoretical developments and research in counseling generally speaking, this essay mobilizes multiple disciplines in order to establish a conjuncture between the way counseling discourses on social justice address inequality and the way they inadvertently sustain the inequalities they seek to abolish. By grounding into U.S. colonialism as a form of imperial pragmatism in empire building, this essay explicates counseling as another technology of social control for which intimacy and care become categorically encased.