Occupation-Centered Analysis of Social Difference: Contributions to a Socially Responsive Occupational Science

Angell, Amber M.

doi:10.1080/14427591.2012.711230

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“…Johanna's story demonstrates the complexity between environmental structure and individual agency while Nina and Wendy cited reasons that related to familial and social factors. Their stories demonstrate the need to be aware of individual agency but focus more specifically on the main social issues that are related to maternal alcohol consumption as occupation 23,47,48 . Furthermore, despite individual agency and the ability to imagine different futures, sociopolitical factors can limit future occupational possibilities 44 .…”

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"I drink": Mothers' alcohol consumption as both individualised and imposed occupation

Cloete

Ramugondo

2015

S. Afr. j. occup. ther

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"I drink": Mothers' alcohol consumption as both individualised and imposed occupation

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Ramugondo

2015

S. Afr. j. occup. ther

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“…However, building on foundational work related to occupational justice and the political nature of occupation 6,7 , there has been increasing recognition of the need to employ theoretical and methodological approaches that address social relations of power 8,9,10 . To date, work addressing the situated nature of occupation has tended to neglect how social relations of power are enacted in ways that create and perpetuate situations of discrimination, marginalisation and oppression 11,12,13,14 .…”

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Situating occupation in social relations of power: Occupational possibilities, ageism and the retirement 'choice'

Rudman

2015

S. Afr. j. occup. ther

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ABSTRACT. However, building on foundational work related to occupational justice and the political nature of occupation 6,7 , there has been increasing recognition of the need to employ theoretical and methodological approaches that address social relations of power 8,9,10 . To date, work addressing the situated nature of occupation has tended to neglect how social relations of power are enacted in ways that create and perpetuate situations of discrimination, marginalisation and oppression 11,12,13,14 . Attention to social relations of power is essential if the study of occupation is to critically raise awareness of the mechanisms through which ocKey words: Narrative, discourse, occupational injustice, later life cupational injustices are enacted and, in turn, inform practice aimed at transforming socio-political practices, systems and structures to create more occupationally just conditions 15,16,17,18 . This paper addresses the embeddedness of occupation within social relations of power tied to age. It aims to both illustrate a methodological approach that can be employed to critically examine the influences of discourse on lived experience and occupational possibilities, and also the potential understandings of occupation that can evolve from such work. Drawing on narrative data collected from retired individuals in a Canadian city, the analysis critically addresses how ageism, as an ideology and form of discrimination based in social relations of power, bounded occupational possibilities and choices in the work to retirement transition. In concert with the emerging body of work integrating critical social science frameworks to examine how social relations of power tied to race, gender, citizenship status, and other attributes shape possibilities for occupations, this paper aims to further raise awareness of the need to attend to social relations of power in occupation-centred research and practice in order to form and sustain contexts that enable human flourishing and dignity through occupation. Politicising occupation: Occupation and social relations of powerSeveral authors have pointed to the importance of politicising occupation; that is, placing occupation within broad relations of power to raise awareness of, and inform actions to address, how such relations shape and perpetuate occupational inequities 3,

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“…Critical work provides occupational science with analyses of processes that limit and shape the social participation of disempowered classes, communities or populations. Angell 17 , for example, has discussed how occupations often serve to re-inscribe the marginality of people in already marginalised social positions. Laliberte Rudman 15 has shown how neoliberal discourses of aging are recasting and limiting the occupational possibilities of retirees in Canada on a national scale.…”

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“…As occupational science expands its use of critical theories to analyse how inequality, injustice, and disempowerment are socially produced 15,16,17 , occupational therapists may desire increasingly to engage in politically informed practice. Toward such an end, Townsend calls for a critical literacy of occupation so that societies can address the effects of environmental changes on the world's aging population 18 .…”

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Theorising social transformation in occupational science: The American Civil Rights Movement and South African struggle against apartheid as 'Occupational Reconstructions'

Frank

Muriithi

2015

S. Afr. j. occup. ther.

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INTRODUCTIONThis article introduces the theory of occupational reconstructions. This new theory is intended to enable occupational science to describe, explain and study -in occupational terms -how people act to change their situations for what they believe will be for the better. Applying the theory to the American civil rights movement and the South African struggle against apartheid, the article aims to demonstrate how political activism functions occupationally. The theory is intended to provide a bridge between current thinking in occupational science and future occupational therapy practice for social change. Occupational reconstruction theory brings an actionoriented framework to occupational science and occupational therapy regarding social justice, occupational injustice, collective action, political approaches, and critical theories.The theory of occupational reconstructions builds on important steps to date. First, occupational therapy already holds social participation to be within its scope of practice 1,2 . Second, occupational science as an academic discipline has made it possible to conceive of occupations, such as social participation, more expansively than occupational therapy practice typically does in today's health care systems 3,4 . Consequently, it has become possible to glimpse a near future when occupational therapists will use occupational science theories and empirical research to help to change lives not only individually but more widely, in the aggregate, through public health policy interventions and community-based collaborations 5,6,7,8,9 . Further, concepts and theories in occupational science are emerging that re-imagine societal participation on a global scale. The literature concerned with occupational injustice, for example, addresses human rights and capabilities in the broadest possible sense 10,11 . The growing 'occupational therapy without borders' literature starting with the edited volume by Kronenberg, Pollard and Simó-Algado 12 describes innovative practice that treats not only individuals but social problems. These approaches may partly map onto community-based practice as currently described in occupational therapy 13 . But many take place outside of professional As occupational science expands its use of critical theories to analyse how inequality, injustice, and disempowerment are socially produced 15,16,17 , occupational therapists may desire increasingly to engage in politically informed practice. Toward such an end, Townsend calls for a critical literacy of occupation so that societies can address the effects of environmental changes on the world's aging population 18 . There is a need, further, for occupational science to study how people actually organise themselves to create social change. A THEORY OF OCCUPATIONAL RECONSTRUCTIONS: SOURCES, DEFINITION AND PRINCIPLESThe theory of occupational reconstructions draws on American pragmatism 19 as a starting point for empirical research and theoretical elaboration. Pragmatist philosophy contributed a disti...

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Occupation-Centered Analysis of Social Difference: Contributions to a Socially Responsive Occupational Science

Cited by 102 publications

References 44 publications

"I drink": Mothers' alcohol consumption as both individualised and imposed occupation

"I drink": Mothers' alcohol consumption as both individualised and imposed occupation

Situating occupation in social relations of power: Occupational possibilities, ageism and the retirement 'choice'

Theorising social transformation in occupational science: The American Civil Rights Movement and South African struggle against apartheid as 'Occupational Reconstructions'

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