Nick Pollard & Dikaios Sakellariou 
Politics of Occupation-Centred Practice [PDF ebook] 
Reflections on Occupational Engagement Across Cultures

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 across Time and Space 92
Sarah Kantartzis, Matthew Molineux and Sally Foster
9 Indigenous Ainu Occupational Identities and the Natural Environment in Hokkaido 106
Mami Aoyama
10 People with Disabilities and Participation: Experiences and Challenges of an Occupational Therapy Practice in the City of São Paulo, Brazil 128
Sandra Maria Galheigo, Fátima Corrêa Oliver, Taisa Gomes 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 and Linda Rammler
13 Models and Human Occupation 180
Nick Pollard and Neil Carver
14 Participation, Time, Effort and Speech Disability Justice 197
Devva Kasnitz and Pamela Block
15 A Society Founded on Occupation 217
Nick Pollard and Dikaios Sakellariou
Index 237

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.