Ryan Lavalley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4440719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryan Lavalley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Lavalley |
| SIGNATURE | LAVALLEY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2891-9671 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Interrogating neoliberal influences: Reflections on the praxis of occupation-based social transformation
Claims of occupation’s socially transformative potential are long-standing within occupational science. In recent years, efforts have been made to mobilize this potential to enact change across individuals to collectives. Tracing the evolution of English-language, occupation-based scholarship reveals that the literature has been preparatory in relation to social transformation by 1) defining and establishing social transformation as a relevant an…
When power speaks back: An arts-based case for problematizing pragmatic analyses of social transformation
Oral history: A tool to explore community occupation
Co-creating occupational science research with 2SLGBTQIA+ Indigenous communities: Developing community-driven research priorities through relationship-building
A communal perspective of occupation: Community change in a senior center welcoming Spanish-speaking immigrants
Occupational scientists across the globe are increasingly attending to social change and its connection to occupation and communities. The discipline is actively studying the role of communal everyday doing in social movements, community development, and systemic transformation. This paper describes a 6-month enthnographic study that explored community change at a senior center as it welcomed Spanish-speaking older adults into its programming and…
Occupation, injustice, and anti-Black racism in the United States of America
In the summer of 2020, the death of George Floyd – yet another unarmed Black man killed at the hands of police – thrust race and racism to the forefront of public attention in the United States. Across the country, demonstrators and protestors mobilized to end police brutality, one mechanism of systemic racism in this country’s history and present. As this paper explores, occupation too has played a role in the systemic racism against Black peopl…
From racialized think-pieces toward anti-racist praxis in our science, education, and practice
The process of evaluating and understanding occupation as something people want or are obligated to do and its impact on health and survival is as old as the occupational therapy profession (Johnso
A live community growing together: Communal occupation of a senior center welcoming Spanish-speaking elders
The percentage of Latinx immigrants over the age of 65 in the United States is expected to more than double within the next 30 years. These elders face particular health and occupational disparities emerging from a transaction of individual and sociocultural factors that warrants attention by both service providers and researchers. This study employed an ethnographic approach including interviews, observations, document review, and group mapping …
Developing the transactional perspective of occupation for communities: “How well are we doing together?”
Researchers in occupational science have begun to study occupation from a perspective beyond the individual. Previous occupation-based theory and literature, principally developed from the perspective of individual experience, has not offered sufficient theoretical foundation for this new scope of study. A need for theory and language that support further investigation in emerging scholarly and practice areas such as structural injustices, immigr…
Transnational Information Politics and the “Child Migration Crisis”: Guatemalan NGOs Respond to Youth Migration
Sharp increases in “child migrants” from Central America detained at the US border in 2014 brought unprecedented levels of attention to long extant social and political issues perceived as causing youth migration. While governments on both sides of the US border faced criticism over responses to the migration “crisis,” the presumed causes of this migration presented in US media discourses went largely unquestioned. This article presents data coll…
Developing the transactional perspective of occupation for communities: “How well are we doing together?”
Researchers in occupational science have begun to study occupation from a perspective beyond the individual. Previous occupation-based theory and literature, principally developed from the perspective of individual experience, has not offered sufficient theoretical foundation for this new scope of study. A need for theory and language that support further investigation in emerging scholarly and practice areas such as structural injustices, immigr…
Occupation, injustice, and anti-Black racism in the United States of America
In the summer of 2020, the death of George Floyd – yet another unarmed Black man killed at the hands of police – thrust race and racism to the forefront of public attention in the United States. Across the country, demonstrators and protestors mobilized to end police brutality, one mechanism of systemic racism in this country’s history and present. As this paper explores, occupation too has played a role in the systemic racism against Black peopl…
From racialized think-pieces toward anti-racist praxis in our science, education, and practice
The process of evaluating and understanding occupation as something people want or are obligated to do and its impact on health and survival is as old as the occupational therapy profession (Johnso
A live community growing together: Communal occupation of a senior center welcoming Spanish-speaking elders
The percentage of Latinx immigrants over the age of 65 in the United States is expected to more than double within the next 30 years. These elders face particular health and occupational disparities emerging from a transaction of individual and sociocultural factors that warrants attention by both service providers and researchers. This study employed an ethnographic approach including interviews, observations, document review, and group mapping …
When power speaks back: An arts-based case for problematizing pragmatic analyses of social transformation
Oral history: A tool to explore community occupation
Co-creating occupational science research with 2SLGBTQIA+ Indigenous communities: Developing community-driven research priorities through relationship-building
Transnational Information Politics and the “Child Migration Crisis”: Guatemalan NGOs Respond to Youth Migration
Sharp increases in “child migrants” from Central America detained at the US border in 2014 brought unprecedented levels of attention to long extant social and political issues perceived as causing youth migration. While governments on both sides of the US border faced criticism over responses to the migration “crisis,” the presumed causes of this migration presented in US media discourses went largely unquestioned. This article presents data coll…
Developing the transactional perspective of occupation for communities: “How well are we doing together?”
Researchers in occupational science have begun to study occupation from a perspective beyond the individual. Previous occupation-based theory and literature, principally developed from the perspective of individual experience, has not offered sufficient theoretical foundation for this new scope of study. A need for theory and language that support further investigation in emerging scholarly and practice areas such as structural injustices, immigr…
Transnational Information Politics and the “Child Migration Crisis”: Guatemalan NGOs Respond to Youth Migration
Sharp increases in “child migrants” from Central America detained at the US border in 2014 brought unprecedented levels of attention to long extant social and political issues perceived as causing youth migration. While governments on both sides of the US border faced criticism over responses to the migration “crisis,” the presumed causes of this migration presented in US media discourses went largely unquestioned. This article presents data coll…
A communal perspective of occupation: Community change in a senior center welcoming Spanish-speaking immigrants
Occupational scientists across the globe are increasingly attending to social change and its connection to occupation and communities. The discipline is actively studying the role of communal everyday doing in social movements, community development, and systemic transformation. This paper describes a 6-month enthnographic study that explored community change at a senior center as it welcomed Spanish-speaking older adults into its programming and…
Occupation, injustice, and anti-Black racism in the United States of America
In the summer of 2020, the death of George Floyd – yet another unarmed Black man killed at the hands of police – thrust race and racism to the forefront of public attention in the United States. Across the country, demonstrators and protestors mobilized to end police brutality, one mechanism of systemic racism in this country’s history and present. As this paper explores, occupation too has played a role in the systemic racism against Black peopl…
From racialized think-pieces toward anti-racist praxis in our science, education, and practice
The process of evaluating and understanding occupation as something people want or are obligated to do and its impact on health and survival is as old as the occupational therapy profession (Johnso
A live community growing together: Communal occupation of a senior center welcoming Spanish-speaking elders
The percentage of Latinx immigrants over the age of 65 in the United States is expected to more than double within the next 30 years. These elders face particular health and occupational disparities emerging from a transaction of individual and sociocultural factors that warrants attention by both service providers and researchers. This study employed an ethnographic approach including interviews, observations, document review, and group mapping …
When power speaks back: An arts-based case for problematizing pragmatic analyses of social transformation
Oral history: A tool to explore community occupation
Co-creating occupational science research with 2SLGBTQIA+ Indigenous communities: Developing community-driven research priorities through relationship-building
Interrogating neoliberal influences: Reflections on the praxis of occupation-based social transformation
Claims of occupation’s socially transformative potential are long-standing within occupational science. In recent years, efforts have been made to mobilize this potential to enact change across individuals to collectives. Tracing the evolution of English-language, occupation-based scholarship reveals that the literature has been preparatory in relation to social transformation by 1) defining and establishing social transformation as a relevant an…
Sociology (9 works) · Occupational Therapy Practice and Research (8 works) · Occupational science (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Occupational Therapy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Musicians’ Health and Performance (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)