Occupation
Potential for personal and social transformation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12644347 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Townsend (0000-0003-4957-6628, Dalhousie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 18-26 |
| Publication date | 1997-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Occupational Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1442-7591 • E-ISSN: 2158-1576 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14427591.1997.9686417 |
| OpenAlex | W2089160118 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 54 |
| References cited | 33 |
The author takes the broad view that occupation is the active process of living, not limited to categories of work. Drawing on her two recent ethnographic studies of occupational therapy in mental health day programmes, she poses three questions: 1. What are the key features of the active process of occupation? 2. How does the social organization of occupation confer power on some occupations, but not on others? 3. How might (ought?) occupation be used for personal or social transformation? To support her argument that the potential to transform ourselves and society lies in occupation, four key features of the active process of occupation are highlighted: learning; organizing time and place; discovering meaning; and, exercising choice and control. The conclusion points to the urgency of changing the ways in which education, health, welfare and other institutions are organized to enable us to focus on occupation in our quest for economic security, personal development, and justice
Argument (complex analysis · Ethnography · Meaning (existential · Mental health · Occupational science · Political science · Power (physics · Process (computing · Public relations · Sociology · Welfare · Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders · Innovative Education and Learning Practices · Law · Medicine · Occupational Therapy Practice and Research · Psychology · Social Psychology · Occupational Therapy
Illustrating the Importance of Critical Epistemology to Realize the Promise of Occupational Justice
Interrogating neoliberal influences
“A constellation of ideas and practices”
Shaping ideal places for retirement
Outlining a critical ethos for historical work in occupational science and occupational therapy
Storied Approaches to Understanding Occupation
Articulating an Occupational Perspective
Integrating occupational and public health sciences through a cross-national educational partnership
An Occupational Journey
Occupation-Centered Analysis of Social Difference
Conceptualizing the role of occupation in the production of space
Using Critical Policy Analysis in Occupational Science Research
Incarceration during a pandemic
The development and future of occupational science
The Occupation of Household Financial Management among Lesbian Couples
A vision for occupational science
Occupation through a practice theory lens
Strengthening associated living
Developing the transactional perspective of occupation for communities
A Phenomenological Study of the Occupational Choices of Individuals Who Self Identify as Adult Children of Alcoholics
The experience of flow by people living with disabilities
The Influence of Western Society's Construction of a Healthy Daily Life on the Conceptualisation of Occupation
Filling in the gaps
Music is life”
Examining racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity in occupational science research
Water
Some of us actually choose to do this”
Living with chronic lung disease
The unreliable participant
Doing Dress and the Construction of Women's Gender Identity
A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of the Uptake of Critical Perspectives in Occupational Science
An Evolutionary Concept Analysis of Caring for a Pet as an Everyday Occupatio
Engaging transcendent actualisation through occupational intelligence
Using participatory and creative methods to facilitate emancipatory research with people facing multiple disadvantage
Perspectives of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities on Quality of Life
Identifying and understanding research impact
Keeping busy with purpose’
An exploration of choir singing
Discerning the social in individual stories of occupation through critical narrative inquiry
Learning about occupation together
Mothers of children with food allergy
Africana womanism’
Insights about Researching Discouraged Workers
A community panel on occupations to consider economic opportunities outside major urban centres
Understanding and applying empowerment theory to promote occupational justice
Understanding Occupational Transitions in Forced Migration
The interconnected meanings of occupation
Understanding Political Influences on Occupational Possibilities
Traversing hills and valleys
Understanding the role of sensory processing in occupation
Environment, time‐use, and adaptedness in prosimians
Understanding Occupational Potential
An Exploration of Addictive Behaviours from an Occupational Perspective
Reclaiming the Potential of Transformative Scholarship to Enable Social Justice
Developing critical thinkers
The Politics of Education
Conceptual Practices Power
Modernity and self-identity
Moral consciousness and communicative action
Knowledge, Experience, and Ruling
Modernity and Self-Identity
Texts, Facts and Femininity
Justice and the Politics of Difference
Activity and happiness
Occupation, employment and human welfare
Ritual, meaning and transcendence
A theory of the human need for occupation
The philosophical discourse of modernity
| Citations per year | 2.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |