Politics of Occupation-Centred Practice

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 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

“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)