“…Civil defense, civil protection, and emergency management professionals are aware of the difficulties arising from the lack of recognition of their work and are mobilizing to face it (Mac ıas, 1999;Brazil, 2021a). Research on civil defense tends to look at institutional vulnerabilities (Valencio, 2012), institutional capacities (Londe et al, 2015), and interactions with other professionals, such as social service workers (Dutra and Gonçalves, 2016), health sector practitioners (Silva, 2019). However, few studies have analyzed the professionalization of civil defense, civil protection, and emergency management (Mac ıas, 2016;Alexander, 2015).…”