POLITICS OF OCCUPATION-CENTRED PRACTICE :Reflections on occupational engagement across cultures -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- The Meaning of Occupation -- The Term 'Occupation' -- So, What Is Occupation? -- Occupational Being -- Cultural Change and Acceptable Occupations -- Occupational Effect -- Being with the Others -- How this Book is Organized -- References -- 2 The Language of Occupation -- Language, Cultural Meanings and Nosologies -- Language, Occupation and Professional Status -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Occupational Literacy -- Being Trialogical -- Making Sense of the World -- Occupational Literacy as a Skill -- References -- 4 A Grammar for a Language of Occupation -- Comprehension -- Language Structures and Occupation -- Recognizing Occupation -- 'Doingness' -- Morphemes -- Domains of Symbolic Logic -- References -- 5 Towards a Transformational Grammar of Occupation -- Human Scale Development Theory -- Language and Occupation -- Territories of Words -- Conviviality -- My Baby Took the Train . . . -- References -- 6 Narratives of Recognition -- Occupational Therapy Stories -- Heteroglossia -- References -- 7 Narratives and Truths -- Features of Narratives -- Narrative and Illness -- Whose Narrative and Whose Language? -- References -- 8 Occupation in a Greek Town: Flowing, Emergent, Flexible across Time and Space -- Introduction -- Introduction to Melissa -- The places of everyday life -- Ta xorafia (the fields) -- To spiti (home) -- Oi plateies (the squares) -- Magazia kai ipiresies (shops, businesses and public services) -- Independence and interdependence -- Public and private places -- Temporal rhythms -- Spatio-temporal rhythms -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Indigenous Ainu Occupational Identities and the Natural Environment in Hokkaido.

Ainu Worldview and Traditional Occupations in the Pre-Tokugawa Period: Occupations and Worldview Linked with Nature's Cycles -- Ainu worldview -- Traditional Ainu occupations and the occupational cycle -- Traditional occupations and worldview -- Ainu Occupational Changes from the Early Modern Period: Domination by Japanese Social Norms and Contempt of the Cycles of Nature -- Ainu history and occupational changes from the early modern period -- The invasion of Japanese society and occupational injustice -- Ainu today -- Conclusions -- References -- 10 People with Disabilities and Participation: Experiences and Challenges of an Occupational Therapy Practice in the City of São Paulo, Brazil -- Participation, Disability in Daily Life and Access to Human Rights in an Urban and Unequal Scenario -- Participation, daily life and community intervention: concepts, perspectives and challenges -- People with disabilities, poverty and lack of access to human rights -- Identifying the Rupture of Social Support Networks and the Social Isolation of People with Disabilities in Poor Areas of São Paulo: An Experience of Active Search -- Knowing the disability as a collective problem: territorial approach -- Knowing personal trajectories: life stories -- The Construction of Participation in the Daily Life of People with Disabilities: Community Alternatives for Intervention -- Individual care -- Group activities -- Human rights forums -- Socio-cultural activities -- Conclusion -- References -- 11 Communities of Writing -- Communities, Writing and Publishing -- Community Publishing, Occupational Narratives and Occupational Science -- Writing and Consciousness -- Can Do: Affirmation and Participation -- References -- 12 Disability, Sexuality and Intimacy -- Overview -- Teaching Sexuality and Disability -- Theorizing Sexuality and Disability.

Research on Policy Context: The First Step in a More Progressive Practice -- Sexuality and Disability in Non-Western Societies -- Sexual Access -- Inclusion of Disabled People as Co-participants in Research, Writing, and Policy-Making -- Hope and Jacob -- Hope -- Jacob -- Final Thoughts -- Appendix -- References -- 13 Models and Human Occupation -- Introduction -- The Social Status of Modelling -- Model Making Defined -- Models in Early History -- The Value of Modelling to Modellers -- Critiques of Modelling -- The History, Scale and Nature of the Modelling Market -- Conclusion: Models, Competences, Identities, and Representing Human Occupation -- References -- 14 Participation, Time, Effort and Speech Disability Justice -- Introduction -- Participation and Citizenship -- Experiences in Time and of Effort -- Anger, Advocacy, Responsibility, and Disability Justice -- Time and Thought -- Conclusion -- References -- 15 A Society Founded on Occupation -- Occupation and Codependency -- The Ownership of Occupation -- Occupational Justice -- Determining Needs -- Choice and Contradiction -- The Professionalization of Doing -- Occupational Literacy and Occupational Justice -- References -- Index.