Politics of Occupation-Centred Practice (eBook)

About the Editors Nick Pollard is a Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy at Sheffield Hallam University. In addition to papers with Dikaios on community-based rehabilitation, he has also written widely on community publishing and group work. Dikaios Sakellariou is a Lecturer in Occupational Therapy at Cardiff University. He has published widely on sexuality and disability, community-based rehabilitation, occupational therapy education and occupational justice. Nick and Dikaios are co-authors and co-editors of Occupational Therapies without Borders (2011) and A Political Practice of Occupational Therapy (2008), both with Frank Kronenberg.

List of Contributors vii

Foreword ix

Acknowledgements xi

1 Introduction 1
Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou

2 The Language of Occupation 25
Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou

3 Occupational Literacy 42
Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou

4 A Grammar for a Language of Occupation 51
Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou

5 Towards a Transformational Grammar of Occupation 61
Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou

6 Narratives of Recognition 72
Dikaios Sakellariou and Nick Pollard

7 Narratives and Truths 81
Dikaios Sakellariou and Nick Pollard

8 Occupation in a Greek Town: Flowing, Emergent, Flexible across Time and Space 92
Sarah Kantartzis, Matthew Molineux and Sally Foster

9 Indigenous Ainu Occupational Identities and the Natural Environment in Hokkaido 106
Mami Aoyama

10 People with Disabilities and Participation: Experiences and Challenges of an Occupational TherapyPractice in the City of São Paulo, Brazil 128
Sandra Maria Galheigo, Fátima Corrêa Oliver, Taisa Gomes Ferreira and Marta Aoki

11 Communities of Writing 146
Nick Pollard

12 Disability, Sexuality and Intimacy 162
Pamela Block, Russell Shuttleworth, Jacob Pratt, Hope Block and Linda Rammler

13 Models and Human Occupation 180
Nick Pollard and Neil Carver

14 Participation, Time, Effort and Speech Disability Justice 197
Devva Kasnitz and Pamela Block

15 A Society Founded on Occupation 217
Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou

Index 237

"What makes this book exciting is the fresh insights it
offers to persistent issues within the occupational
therapy." (British Journal of Occupational
Therapy, 1 February 2013)

"...it is a rare occurrence when one particular book
sparks an immediate connection and I really want to read the next
bit. That was the case with this particular volume. The editors
have crafted an elegant flow between and across chapters that
introduces the foundational concepts of the occupational therapy
profession, then leads the reader into realms that are less
familiar perhaps...A book full of new triggers of interest; a
book that presents a fresh and unexpected dissection and synthesis
of ''occupation'' as linked with languages,
cultures, and narratives; a book well worth another read and one
that can inform with fresh eyes when probing our practice and
professional understanding." (Canadian Journal of
Occupational Therapy, 26 June 2014)