Politics of Occupation-Centred Practice

List of Contributors vii Foreword ix Acknowledgements xi 1 Introduction 1 Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou 2 The Language of Occupation 25 Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou 3 Occupational Literacy 42 Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou 4 A Grammar for a Language of Occupation 51 Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou 5 Towards a Transformational Grammar of Occupation 61 Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou 6 Narratives of Recognition 72 Dikaios Sakellariou and Nick Pollard 7 Narratives and Truths 81 Dikaios Sakellariou and Nick Pollard 8 Occupation in a Greek Town: Flowing, Emergent, Flexible acrossTime and Space 92 Sarah Kantartzis, Matthew Molineux and Sally Foster 9 Indigenous Ainu Occupational Identities and the NaturalEnvironment in Hokkaido 106 Mami Aoyama 10 People with Disabilities and Participation: Experiences andChallenges of an Occupational Therapy Practice in the City ofSa~o Paulo, Brazil 128 Sandra Maria Galheigo, Fa´tima Corre^a Oliver, TaisaGomes Ferreira and Marta Aoki 11 Communities of Writing 146 Nick Pollard 12 Disability, Sexuality and Intimacy 162 Pamela Block, Russell Shuttleworth, Jacob Pratt, Hope Block andLinda Rammler 13 Models and Human Occupation 180 Nick Pollard and Neil Carver 14 Participation, Time, Effort and Speech Disability Justice197 Devva Kasnitz and Pamela Block 15 A Society Founded on Occupation 217 Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou Index 237