Governing through Occupation: Shaping Expectations and Possibilities

Occupational Science: Society, Inclusion, Participation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 100-116

  Rudman, Debbie Laliberte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical analyses of occupational science, and limitations; Critical approaches, in life course sociology, as individual experience; Critical social theory, occupation within social, political, economic; Expectations and meanings, and individual negotiation of life course; Governing through occupation, shaping expectations, possibilities; Governmentality scholarship, life shaped by social relations of power; Integrating critical social theory, into study of occupation; Raising awareness on how injustices, socially shaped, perpetuated; Social policy, enabling use of societal resources; Taken for granted views of reality, discursive means connected to power

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883233310     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118281581.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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