Since its first edition in 2005,
Occupational Therapies Without Borders has been a key text in many of the world’s leading occupational therapy education programs. It focuses on how occupational therapists can affect positive societal change through nurturing participation parity and engagement in occupation.
This book comprehensively covers theory, methodology and practice in the context of working with different cultures and geographies. It explores occupational therapy and social class, race, disability, marginality and sexuality from a critical theory perspective, and discusses practical approaches.
The book has been fully revised to reflect emerging concerns for occupational therapy in different and health and social systems globally. It will motivate undergraduate and postgraduate occupational therapy students to explore the transformative potential of their practice.
- Includes contributions from internationally leading experts across a range of geographical, political and linguistic contexts
- Presents an international range of innovative ideas, theory and approaches to occupational therapy education and practice
- Emphasises the importance of critically deconstructing and engaging with the broader context of occupation, particularly around how occupational injustices are shaped through political, economic and historical factors
- Contributes to a decentralisation of knowledge and a recognition of anglophone education bias, feeding into the current debates about decolonisation and intersectionality in educational curricula
- New to this edition
- Updated content on current and future concerns, including Black Lives Matter, queer rights, COVID-19, increasing political polarisation and the rise of populism, and stresses in health and social care systems
- New content on critical theory and how it can be utilised as a tool towards a more reflexive, politically-engaged occupational therapy
- New chapters discussing concepts including social class, race, disability, marginality, and sexuality
Section 1 Critical Theory and Occupational Therapy
1. Occupational Therapy: Building From Critical Recognition to Un-Doing
Neoliberalisation
2. Chilean Common Pots as a Situated Collective Occupation: Contributions to
an Empowering and Community-Allied Occupational Therapy
3. Resurgence of Indigenous Occupations: Walking Alongside Adivasis in India
4. Dialogue for an Anti-Oppressive Praxis: Paulo Freire and Occupational
Therapy
5. Contributions of a Materialist Feminist Analysis to Emancipatory
Occupational Therapy
6. Occupational Therapy and Territorial-Community Approaches: Different
Places in the World and the Weaving of Solidarity Networks
7. For a Feminist Poetic Reason
8. The Notion of Radical Inclusion Based on Social Occupational Therapy in
the Education Sector
9. Doing and Being: Understanding Occupational Therapy Through the Lens of
the Capabilities Approach
10. Occupational Therapy Informed by the Mad Justice and Neurodiversity
Movements
11. Creation of a Disability Studies Informed Approach to Occupational
Therapy Education, Scholarship, and Practice
12. Social Occupational Therapy, Social Protection, and Universalisation of
Access to Rights: Social Services/Welfare as a Field of Work
13. Centring Indigenous Knowledges to Strengthen Agency Amongst Scholars and
Practitioners to Decolonise Occupational Therapy
14. Critical Race Theory and Occupational Therapy Considerations
15. When Quality Becomes Quantified: Pushing Back Against Modern Eugenics and
Ableism for Occupational Therapy Practitioners
Section 2 Experiences of Practice and Education Based on Critical Theories
16. Feminism and Occupational Therapy: The Embodied Injustices of Motherhood
17. Participation and Collective Resistance of Women With Disabilities:
Lessons for a Feminist Occupational Therapy From the South
18. Black Mothers and Their Children in the Brazilian Context: An
Investigation Into the Daily Confrontation of Racism
19. Occupational Therapy in the Encounter With Migrant Groups: The Chinese
and Sub-Saharan Diasporas in Argentina From an Ethnographic Approach
20. The Occupational Therapist as a Social Articulator: Confronting Violence
and Guaranteeing the Social Rights of the LGBTQIAPN+ Population
21. Intra- and Intergenerational Occupational Justice in the Context of the
Climate Crisis: Sustainable Practices in Occupational Therapy in Clinic,
Teaching, Research, and Volunteer Community Engagement
22. Ecosocial Occupational Therapy for a Healthier and Sustainable Job
Inclusion: E-GSD Case Study
23. Therapeutic Nucleation, the Use of Metaphors, and the Importance of the
Collective Community Experience in Chile Based on Ecosocial Occupational
Therapy
24. When Service Users Teach Social Occupational Therapy: Teaching Actions as
a Support for Interventions
25. The Political and Ethical Framing of Criminal Occupations in Occupational
Therapy Practice
26. Trauma-Informed Occupational Therapy With Forced Migrants: Critical
Reflections on Application, Successes, and Challenges
27. Rural Horizons in Occupational Therapy
28. The Intersectionality of Unmet Community Mobility Needs
29. Casting Off Enlightenment Canon: Towards a Disruptive Social
Reconstructionist Education for Occupational Therapy and Occupational
Science
30. Teaching Into the Legacy of bell hooks: Creating Beloved Community in the
Graduate Classroom
31. An Emancipatory Approach to Education and Practice of Occupational
Therapy
32. Disrupting Dominant Narratives, Colonialist and Cycles of Oppression
With(in) Occupational Therapy Education
33. Fissures and Third Spaces: The Production of Decolonial Pedagogical
Practices in the Education of Occupational Therapists
34. Transformative Learning: From Adding to What Learners Know to Challenging
What They Assume to Know About the Occupation
