Ted Brown, Diane L Smith, Aiko Hoshino, Risa Takashima
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Abstract
Background: Intersectionality asks professionals to consider the diverse sociocultural identities and positionings that may directly or indirectly impact the day-to-day occupational lives of individuals, families, collectives, and communities. Two or more identities or diversity factors may create compounding societal positions of marginalisation, discrimination, and oppression. Intersectionality and its outcomes, when viewed through a human occupation and occupational justice perspective, are termed 'occupational intersectionality'. As a critical practice perspective, occupational intersectionality offers occupational therapists a lens to identify identities and positionings that perpetuate inequities and restrict occupational engagement and participation for individuals, families, groups, and communities.
Purpose: This article will (i) review the general concept of intersectionality; (ii) introduce and define the new concept of 'occupational intersectionality'; (iii) examine its relationship to social and occupational justice, including the Participatory Occupational Justice Framework (POJF); (iv) situate occupational intersectionality within the Canadian Occupational Therapy InterRelational Practice Process (COTIPP) and the Transactional Model of Occupation (TMO); (v) illustrate its application through a vignette; and (vi) contextualise occupational intersectionality by mapping identities, positionings, and diversity factors with the key elements of the COTIPP, TMO, and POJF.
Key concepts: The main concepts discussed include intersectionality, occupational intersectionality, occupational privilege and power, occupational oppression, and occupational discrimination, bias, and prejudice. The sociocultural identities and positionings that contribute to occupational intersectionality are discussed in the context of the POFJ, COTIPP, and TMO.
Implications: Occupational intersectionality, as a professional stance, supports occupational therapists in recognising sociocultural identities and positionings of clients, families, groups, and communities that may hinder occupational engagement, participation, health, and wellbeing. Ongoing development, critical consideration, and practical application of occupational intersectionality are strongly recommended. Advancing this approach is essential for promoting social and occupational justice in occupational therapy practice.
Consumer and community involvement: No consumer or community involvement took place in relation to the drafting of this manuscript.
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The Australian Occupational Therapy Journal is a leading international peer reviewed publication presenting influential, high quality innovative scholarship and research relevant to occupational therapy. The aim of the journal is to be a leader in the dissemination of scholarship and evidence to substantiate, influence and shape policy and occupational therapy practice locally and globally. The journal publishes empirical studies, theoretical papers, and reviews. Preference will be given to manuscripts that have a sound theoretical basis, methodological rigour with sufficient scope and scale to make important new contributions to the occupational therapy body of knowledge. AOTJ does not publish protocols for any study design
The journal will consider multidisciplinary or interprofessional studies that include occupational therapy, occupational therapists or occupational therapy students, so long as ‘key points’ highlight the specific implications for occupational therapy, occupational therapists and/or occupational therapy students and/or consumers.
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