POLITICS OF OCCUPATION-CENTRED PRACTICE Reflections on occupational engagement across cultures Politics of Occupation-Centred Practice: Reflections on occupational engagement across cultures addresses the cultural aspects of occupational identity and draws out the implications for practice, moving beyond the clinical environment to include the occupational therapist s work in the wider community. It explores the development of individual occupational narratives, community traditions and their roots in everyday experiences, offering a range of examples from distinctive populations to demonstrate approaches to forming sustainable occupational engagements. Chapters span such key areas as Experiences of Disaster , Social Inclusion , Disability and Participation , and Sexuality, Disability Cultures and Occupation . This cutting-edge text, coordinated by two distinguished researchers and educators in the global field of occupational therapy and science, is designed to meet the needs of students studying the conceptual foundations of occupational therapy, occupational science, role emerging practice, occupational justice, community development and community-based rehabilitation. The book will also be of interest to academics and practitioners exploring new practice contexts created by the drive to address the diversity and inclusion agenda.

POLITICS OF OCCUPATION-CENTRED PRACTICEReflections on occupational engagement across culturesPolitics of Occupation-Centred Practice: Reflections on occupational engagement across cultures addresses the cultural aspects of occupational identity and draws out the implications for practice, moving beyond the clinical environment to include the occupational therapist's work in the wider community.It explores the development of individual occupational narratives, community traditions and their roots in everyday experiences, offering a range of examples from distinctive populations to demonstrate approaches to forming sustainable occupational engagements. Chapters span such key areas as 'Experiences of Disaster', 'Social Inclusion', 'Disability and Participation', and 'Sexuality, Disability Cultures and Occupation'.This cutting-edge text, coordinated by two distinguished researchers and educators in the global field of occupational therapy and science, is designed to meet the needs of students studying the conceptual foundations of occupational therapy, occupational science, role emerging practice, occupational justice, community development and community-based rehabilitation. The book will also be of interest to academics and practitioners exploring new practice contexts created by the drive to address the diversity and inclusion agenda.

List of Contributors viiForeword ixAcknowledgements xi1 Introduction 1Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou2 The Language of Occupation 25Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou3 Occupational Literacy 42Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou4 A Grammar for a Language of Occupation 51Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou5 Towards a Transformational Grammar of Occupation 61Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou6 Narratives of Recognition 72Dikaios Sakellariou and Nick Pollard7 Narratives and Truths 81Dikaios Sakellariou and Nick Pollard8 Occupation in a Greek Town: Flowing, Emergent, Flexible across Time and Space 92Sarah Kantartzis, Matthew Molineux and Sally Foster9 Indigenous Ainu Occupational Identities and the Natural Environment in Hokkaido 106Mami Aoyama10 People with Disabilities and Participation: Experiences and Challenges of an Occupational TherapyPractice in the City of São Paulo, Brazil 128Sandra Maria Galheigo, Fátima Corrêa Oliver, Taisa Gomes Ferreira and Marta Aoki11 Communities of Writing 146Nick Pollard12 Disability, Sexuality and Intimacy 162Pamela Block, Russell Shuttleworth, Jacob Pratt, Hope Block and Linda Rammler13 Models and Human Occupation 180Nick Pollard and Neil Carver14 Participation, Time, Effort and Speech Disability Justice 197Devva Kasnitz and Pamela Block15 A Society Founded on Occupation 217Nick Pollard and Dikaios SakellariouIndex 237