ABSTRACT

This article explores how therapists when introduced as new so-called frontline ‘experts’ in home care work, become both discursive and embodied mediators for the managerial ideology of rehabilitation, and how their presence regulates the care aides’ subjectivities at work. We show how the managerial discourse of rehabilitation mobilizes the care aides to transform their identity from traditional nurturing to rehabilitation, as a result of promoting the latter as more professional. While the traditional managers/nurses promote the identity transfer through more classic discursive regulation at a distance from ‘the office’, the therapists do so through what we label performative regulation. Performative regulation is exercised by the therapists performing the desired role at the frontline and thus embodies the ideal and transfers it by embodied practices, not directives. With this notion of performative regulation, the article emphasizes the material, physical, embodied and performative dimensions of professional identity regulation.

摘要

本文探讨了治疗师如何作为家庭护理工作中的新的所谓前线“专家”被引入，如何成为康复管理思想的讨论性和体现性调解人，以及他们的存在如何调节工作中的护理助手的主观性。我们展示了康复的管理话语如何调动护理助手将其身份从传统的培育转变为康复，从而促进了后者的更加专业化。传统的经理/护士通过距离“办公室”较远的更经典的话语调节来促进身份转移，而治疗师则通过我们所称的性能调节来做到这一点。由治疗师在前线执行期望的角色来执行执行性调节，从而体现理想，并通过具体实践（而非指示）将其转移。通过这种行为规范的概念，本文强调了职业身份规范的物质，物理，体现和行为维度。