Kristin Smith (In Memoriam)

Kristin Smith is a faculty member in the School of Social Work at Toronto Metropolitan University. Smith has a PhD from the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at OISE/University of Toronto and a Masters of Social Work Degree from McMaster University. Smith’s areas of research interest include promoting a critical analysis of neoliberal restructuring of health, social services, and other institutions, such as universities. Smith is also interested in how neoliberal restructuring shapes critical pedagogies in online social work education. Through research, teaching, and community action, Smith hopes to contribute to and social justice movements including queer liberation, disability rights movements, anti-Black racism, other anti-racism movements, radical disability / crip movements, anti-poverty activism and movements to end gender-based violence.

Peer-reviewed publications

Articles:

• Smith, K., Jeffery, D. and Collins, K. (2020). Critical pedagogy in online social work education: Changing Conceptions of Time in the Neoliberal University. Somatechnics. Journal of Bodies – Technologies – Power, April, 10(1), 73-94. Edinburgh University Press.
• Smith, K., Jeffery, D. and Collins, K. (2018). Slowing things down: Taming time in the neoliberal university using distance social work education (external link) . Journal of Social Work Education. 
• Chambers, L., Cranmer-Byng, S., Friedman, M., Njoroge, W., Onishenko, D., Ross, M., Sibblis, C., Smith, K., and Westbrook, A. (2015). Redefining Boarders between Communities and the Classroom: How Community-based Social Activists Can Transform Social Work Education. Engaged Scholar Journal, 1(2): 77-95.
• Smith, K. (2013). Decolonizing Queer Pedagogy. Affilia, 28: 468-470.
• Aronson, J. and Smith, K. (2011). Identity Work and Critical Social Services Management: Balancing on a Tightrope? British Journal of Social Work, 41, (3): 432-448.
• Aronson, J and Smith, K. (2010). Managing Restructured Social Services: Expanding the Social? British Journal of Social Work, 40 (2): 530-547.

Edited books:

• Janzen, C., Jeffery, D. and Smith, K. (Eds.). (2015). Unravelling Encounters: Ethics, Knowledge, and Resistance Under Neoliberalism. Wilfrid Laurier Press.

Book chapters:

• Smith, K. (Under review). Accelerated Time in the Neoliberal University: What Actually Happens to Critical Social Work Education When it Goes Online? In S. Webb (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work. Routledge.
• Smith, K. (In Press). Commentary on AOP Theory and Praxis. In B. LeFrancois and S. Shaikh (eds.), Social Work Theory, Black Point: Fernwood.
• Collins, K., Smith, K., and Jeffery, D. (Under Review). Online Social Work Education in Canada: Disappearing Disability in the Academy? In C. Jones (Ed.), Troubles Online: Critical Approaches to Accessible Teaching and Learning. Athabasca University Press.
• Smith, K. (2017). Occupied Spaces: Unmapping Standardized Assessments in Health and Social Service Organizations (Updated and Revised). In D. Baines (Ed.), Doing anti-oppressive practice: Social justice social work, 3rd Edition. Black Point: Fernwood.
• Smith, K. (2017). Ontario’s Child Welfare Transformation and Primary Health Care Renewal: The Allure of Change. In S. Wehbi and H. Parada (Eds.), Re-imagining anti-oppression social work: Reflecting on practice. Canadian Scholars’ Press.
• Smith, K. (2017). A Research Design for the “Messy Actualities” of Restructured Social Work. In H. Parada and S. Wehbi (Eds.), Re-imagining anti-oppression social work: Reflecting on research. Canadian Scholars’ Press.
• Smith, K. (2015). Mourning Social Welfare: Remaining Inconsolable Before History. In C. Janzen, D. Jeffery, and K. Smith (Eds.), Unravelling Encounters: Ethics, Knowledge, and Resistance under Neoliberalism. Wilfred Laurier Press.
• Janzen, C., Jeffery, D. and Smith, K. (2015). Introduction. In C. Janzen, D. Jeffery, and K. Smith (Eds.), Unravelling Encounters: Ethics, Knowledge, and Resistance under Neoliberalism. Wilfred Laurier Press.
• Smith, K. (2011). Occupied Spaces: Unmapping Standardized Assessments in Health and Social Service Organizations. In D. Baines (Ed.), Doing anti-oppressive practice: Social justice social work, 2nd Edition, pp. 197-213. Black Point: Fernwood.