Seeing white: a critical exploration of occupational therapy with Indigenous Australian people

Decolonizing Indigenous disability in Australia

“…Beliefs, values and behaviours of Indigenous people are 'explained' in terms of deterministic cultural difference that ignores diversity and contradictions within Indigenous populations in ways that would never be applied to non-Indigenous middle-class people (Nelson 2007).…”

Occupational therapy and culture: a literature review

“…The subdimensions share the quality of abstraction or lack of concrete expression. These sub-dimensions are important for occupational choices, as is widely described in the articles, because they highlight valued activities for persons who share a culture (31,34,35,40,(44)(45)(46)(47)(48)(49)(50).…”

“…As social systems are organized in larger and smaller groups, it is important to pay attention to the commonalities and differences between cultures (within the groups and among them). It is important to recognize diversity to prevent the perpetuation of stereotyping processes in respect of certain cultures, an expression of how power can be used against them (31,35,40,43,55). Traditionally, membership was exemplified as ethnicity, giving a set of characteristics that simply define the individuals, and creating stereotypes of them (35,55,59).…”

“…Both spheres of manifestations are interdependent and coexist simultaneously. The invisible manifestationswhich become natural and remain unquestionedcan be knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, morals, norms, and customs (31,48,50,52). These invisible manifestations underlie the visible ones, such as traditional celebrations, language, and crafts (50).…”

“…. To explain how culture is understood in OT, occupationally, psychologically, sociologically, anthropologically, and politically based perspectives are used (31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37). .…”