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Explaining Collective Occupations from a Human Relations Perspective: Bridging the Individual-Collective Dichotomy

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Carrie Anne Marshall, Brooke Phillips, Julia Holmes, Eric Todd, River Hill, George Panter, Corinna Easton, Terry Landry, Sarah Collins, Tom Greening, Ashley O’Brien, Marlo Jastak, Rebecca Ridge, Rebecca Goldszmidt, Chelsea Shanoff, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Alexandra Carlsson, Suliman Aryobi, Jessica Szlapinski, Rozelen Carrillo-Beck, Nicole Pacheco, Shauna Perez & Abe Oudshoorn. (2023) “I can’t remember the last time I was comfortable about being home”: lived experience perspectives on thriving following homelessness. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being 18:1.
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Anne-Le Morville, Janice Jones, Michal Avrech Bar, Teena Clouston, Mona Dür, Nicole Ilper, Anna Röschel, Steve Whitcombe & Hanne Kaae Kristensen. (2023) A scoping review on occupational science research in European contexts. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 30:7, pages 908-923.
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Rebecca Aldrich, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Kassandra Fernandes, Gorety Nguyen & Sarah Larkin. (2023) (Re)making ‘third places’ in precarious times: Conceptual, empirical, and practical opportunities for occupational science. Journal of Occupational Science 0:0, pages 1-19.
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Raviraj Shetty & Shoba Nayar. (2023) Understanding the person-occupation enmeshment through exploring the erosion of tribal occupations in India. Journal of Occupational Science 0:0, pages 1-14.
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Christina Müllenmeister, Jesper Larsen Maersk & Lisette Farias. (2023) Exploring doing activism as a means for political action and social transformation in Germany. Journal of Occupational Science 30:3, pages 377-389.
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Chelsea Ramirez, Karen McCarthy, Ana Cabalquinto, Carmela Dizon & Mai Santiago. (2023) Batok: The exploration of Indigenous Filipino tattooing as a resistive collective occupation. Journal of Occupational Science 30:3, pages 363-376.
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Yijun Liu, Ruth Zemke, Linda Liang & Julie McLaughlin Gray. (2023) Occupational harmony: Embracing the complexity of occupational balance. Journal of Occupational Science 30:2, pages 145-159.
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Ryan Lavalley, Jennifer L. Womack & Antoine Bailliard. (2023) A live community growing together: Communal occupation of a senior center welcoming Spanish-speaking elders. Journal of Occupational Science 30:2, pages 304-316.
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M. Heather McKay, Noralyn D. Pickens, Ann Medley, Suzanne P. Burns, Janice Kishi Chow, David Cooper & Cynthia L. Evetts. (2023) Occupational adaptation as a social process for dementia care teams. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 30:3, pages 384-397.
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Michelle Bergin, Bryan Boyle, Margareta Lilja & Maria Prellwitz. (2023) Irish Schoolyards: Teacher’s Experiences of Their Practices and Children’s Play-“It’s Not as Straight Forward as We Think”. Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools, & Early Intervention 0:0, pages 1-20.
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Carri Hand, Kristin Prentice, Colleen McGrath, Debbie Laliberte Rudman & Catherine Donnelly. (2023) Contested occupation in place: Experiences of inclusion and exclusion in seniors’ housing. Journal of Occupational Science 30:1, pages 94-110.
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Sandra Dunbar-Smalley & Selena E. Washington. (2022) A commentary on occupation, injustice, and anti-black racism in the United States of America (Lavalley & Johnson, 2020). Journal of Occupational Science 29:4, pages 500-504.
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Rosalind Pfaff & Barry Trentham. (2022) Rethinking home: Exploring older adults’ occupational engagement in senior cohousing. Journal of Occupational Science 29:4, pages 562-576.
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Rodolfo Morrison, Lilian Araya, Josefina Del Valle, Vivian Vidal & Katherine Silva. (2022) Apartheid ocupacional y derechos humanos: Narrativas de parejas del mismo sexo que quieren ser padres. Una experiencia chilena. Journal of Occupational Science 29:2, pages XXXVI-LI.
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Cristian Mauricio Valderrama Núñez, Sofía Sepúlveda Hernández & Alejandro Hermosilla Alarcón. (2022) Ocupaciones colectivas y naturaleza: Efectos de la colonialidad de la naturaleza en comunidades rurales y pesqueras de Chile. Journal of Occupational Science 29:2, pages III-XII.
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Cristian Mauricio Valderrama Núñez, Sofía Sepúlveda Hernández & Alejandro Hermosilla Alarcón. (2022) Collective occupations and nature: Impacts of the coloniality of nature on rural and fishing communities in Chile. Journal of Occupational Science 29:2, pages 252-262.
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Monica Villaça Gonçalves & Ana Paula Serrata Malfitano. (2022) Jovens brasileiros em situação de pobreza: O cotidiano na favela. Journal of Occupational Science 29:2, pages 263-278.
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Tanya Elizabeth Benjamin-Thomas, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Colleen McGrath, Debra Cameron, Vinod Joseph Abraham, Jeshuran Gunaseelan & Samuel Prasanna Vinothkumar. (2022) Situating occupational injustices experienced by children with disabilities in rural India within sociocultural, economic, and systemic conditions. Journal of Occupational Science 29:1, pages 97-114.
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Stephanie Huff, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Lilian Magalhães & Erica Lawson. (2022) Gendered occupation: Situated understandings of gender, womanhood and occupation in Tanzania. Journal of Occupational Science 29:1, pages 21-35.
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Stephanie Huff, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Lilian Magalhães, Erica Lawson & Maimuna Kanyamala. (2022) Enacting a critical decolonizing ethnographic approach in occupation-based research. Journal of Occupational Science 29:1, pages 115-129.
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Julia Jansen-van Vuuren, Heather Michelle Aldersey & Rosemary Lysaght. (2021) The role and scope of occupational therapy in Africa. Disability and Rehabilitation 43:25, pages 3639-3651.
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Elelwani L. Ramugondo. (2021) Terminología ocupacional: Conciencia ocupacional. Journal of Occupational Science 28:4, pages 574-587.
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Frank Kronenberg. (2021) Commentary on JOS Editorial Board’s Anti-Racism Pledge. Journal of Occupational Science 28:3, pages 398-403.
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Daniela Castro de Jong, Georgia Pike, Susan West, Harley Valerius, Anne Kay & Stephanie Ellis. (2021) Shared music, shared occupation: Embedding music as a socio-altruistic collective- and co-occupation in occupational therapy education. Journal of Occupational Science 28:3, pages 374-387.
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Mary C. Lawlor. (2021) An untold story: A unifying narrative of the discipline of occupational science. Journal of Occupational Science 28:2, pages 208-220.
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Grace T. Baranek, Gelya Frank & Rebecca M. Aldrich. (2021) Meliorism and knowledge mobilization: Strategies for occupational science research and practice. Journal of Occupational Science 28:2, pages 274-286.
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Ana Paula Serrata Malfitano, Gail Whiteford & Matthew Molineux. (2021) Transcending the individual: The promise and potential of collectivist approaches in occupational therapy. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 28:3, pages 188-200.
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Ashleigh Ryan, John Gilroy & Chontel Gibson. (2020) #Changethedate: Advocacy as an on-line and decolonising occupation. Journal of Occupational Science 27:3, pages 405-416.
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Monica Villaça Gonçalves & Ana Paula Serrata Malfitano. (2020) Brazilian youth experiencing poverty: Everyday life in the favela. Journal of Occupational Science 27:3, pages 311-326.
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Alexandre Resende Tofeti & Vagner Dos Santos. (2020) Sustainable occupational opportunities in protected areas in Brazil. World Federation of Occupational Therapists Bulletin 76:1, pages 40-49.
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Rodolfo Morrison, Lilian Araya, Josefina Del Valle, Vivian Vidal & Katherine Silva. (2020) Occupational apartheid and human rights: Narratives of Chilean same-sex couples who want to be parents. Journal of Occupational Science 27:1, pages 39-53.
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Jennifer Claire McAdam, Denise Franzsen & Daleen Casteleijn. (2019) Identification of occupations in a South African rural less-resourced community. Journal of Occupational Science 26:3, pages 379-393.
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Lindsey Nicholls & Michelle L. Elliot. (2019) In the shadow of occupation: Racism, shame and grief. Journal of Occupational Science 26:3, pages 354-365.
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Nerida Hyett, Amanda Kenny & Virginia Dickson-Swift. (2019) Re-imagining occupational therapy clients as communities: Presenting the community-centred practice framework. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 26:4, pages 246-260.
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Ruth Kjærsti Raanaas, Sissel Ørstavik Aase & Suzanne Huot. (2019) Finding meaningful occupation in refugees' resettlement: A study of amateur choir singing in Norway. Journal of Occupational Science 26:1, pages 65-76.
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Stephanie Huff, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Lilian Magalhães & Erica Lawson. (2018) ‘Africana womanism’: Implications for transformative scholarship in occupational science. Journal of Occupational Science 25:4, pages 554-565.
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Elelwani Ramugondo. (2018) Healing work: intersections for decoloniality. World Federation of Occupational Therapists Bulletin 74:2, pages 83-91.
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Barry L. Trentham & Sheila M. Neysmith. (2018) Exercising senior citizenship in an ageist society through participatory action research: A critical occupational perspective. Journal of Occupational Science 25:2, pages 174-190.
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Juman Simaan. (2017) Olive growing in Palestine: A decolonial ethnographic study of collective daily-forms-of-resistance. Journal of Occupational Science 24:4, pages 510-523.
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Yvonne Thomas, Marion Alexandra Gray & Sue McGinty. (2017) The occupational wellbeing of people experiencing homelessness. Journal of Occupational Science 24:2, pages 181-192.
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Maria Lindström & Gunilla Isaksson. (2017) Personalized Occupational Transformations: Narratives from Two Occupational Therapists’ Experiences with Complex Therapeutic Processes. Occupational Therapy in Mental Health 33:1, pages 15-30.
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Nancy Rushford & Kerry Thomas. (2016) Occupational stewardship: Advancing a vision of occupational justice and sustainability. Journal of Occupational Science 23:3, pages 295-307.
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Myra F. Taylor, Ruth Marquis, Rachel Batten & David Coall. (2016) Understanding the Mental Health Travails of Custodial Grandparents. Occupational Therapy in Mental Health 32:3, pages 259-280.
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Elelwani L. Ramugondo. (2015) Occupational Consciousness. Journal of Occupational Science 22:4, pages 488-501.
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Hetty Fransen, Nick Pollard, Sarah Kantartzis & Inés Viana-Moldes. (2015) Participatory citizenship: Critical perspectives on client-centred occupational therapy. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 22:4, pages 260-266.
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Clare Hocking. (2015) Editorial: Special Issue on Contextual and Evolutionary Perspectives of Occupation. Journal of Occupational Science 22:1, pages 1-2.
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Elizabeth Blesedell Crepeau. (2015) An Ethnographic Analysis of a Church Supper in New England. Journal of Occupational Science 22:1, pages 54-70.
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Debbie Laliberte Rudman. (2014) Embracing and Enacting an ‘Occupational Imagination’: Occupational Science as Transformative. Journal of Occupational Science 21:4, pages 373-388.
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Sarah Kantartzis & Matthew Molineux. (2014) Occupation to Maintain the Family as Ideology and Practice in a Greek Town. Journal of Occupational Science 21:3, pages 277-295.
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