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Life and Labour Contested Occupation and Meaningful Alienation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giatsi Clausen, Maria
Other Authors: Scandrett, Eurig
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Life and Labour: Contested Occupation and Meaningful Alienation
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • PART I
  • 1 Occupation as Hegemony
  • Occupational therapy as professional practice in relation to hegemonic occupation
  • Social movements' challenge to hegemonic occupation
  • References
  • PART II
  • Preface to Chapter 2: Capitalism and the Labour Movement
  • 2 Trade Union Organizing for Life
  • Introduction
  • Performance management
  • Sociology of work
  • Implications for trade union action
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Intercultural translation of occupation and its related concepts
  • A position of liminality
  • Everyday forms of resistance
  • Sutra
  • 'Awna
  • Sumud
  • Discussion and conclusion
  • Note
  • References
  • Preface to Chapter 5: Toxicity, Extractivism and the Environmental Movement
  • 5 A Decent Environment for All
  • Meaningful activity and socio-​environmental relations
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Preface to Chapter 6: Resistance to a Disabling Society
  • 6 Occupation and Disability: Alienation and Affirmation
  • Introduction
  • The Equality Act 2010
  • A different perspective
  • Contextualizing 'this' historically
  • The 20th century
  • Disability arts
  • Alienation and affirmation
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Preface to Chapter 7: 'Normal' Occupations and Neurodiversity
  • 7 The Autistic People's Movement: Shifting the Narrative
  • Introduction
  • Method
  • Boss text
  • A disjuncture
  • Counter texts
  • Occupation
  • Note
  • References
  • Preface to Chapter 8: Psych Hegemony and the Mad Movement
  • 8 Madness and Occupation
  • Introduction
  • 8.1. Mad studies and the neurodivergent emergence
  • An anonymous neurodivergent scholar and advocate
  • 8.2. The occupation of the lives of people
  • Alex Dunedin
  • Anomie, and the breaking down of meaning
  • Madness from the loss of meaning
  • 8.3. Mad studies as purposeful occupation: how Mad studies validated me
  • Carmel Schmid
  • Personal circumstances
  • Validation through knowledge and literature
  • Validation through student empathy at the academy
  • Validation through coproduction with Mad studies
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Preface to Chapter 9: Children, Infrapolitics and Youth Resistance