Spatial Dimensions of Occupation Flashcards
Space vs. Place? + Example
- Space is location, physical space and physical geography
- Place is what gives a space meaning, “personality” and a connection to a cultural or personal identity
Example: Our classroom is a space but every Tuesday and Thursday is becomes a place for OSOT, where we see familiar faces and have a routine.
Spatiality of Occupation - The production of space
- Conceived space?
Representation of space reflecting codes & discourses of the power elite. Space isn’t neutral, the conceived of space influences how the space is used. For example, in a classroom all the seats are facing forward -> professor automatically stands at the front. Reproducing how the same is convinced and used
Spatiality of Occupation - The production of space
- Perceived space?
Production & reproduction of spatial practices shaping how society edges with & uses space; people’s report with & understanding of space
Spatiality of Occupation - The production of space
- Lived space?
Space of representation in which duality life challenges other forms of space. -> what are people actually doing? Seeing a crosswalk, I understand the perceived usage but I might choose not to.
Why is the production of space important?
Allows us to explore the concept of space, while integrating a critical aspect and the concept of occupation in duality life.
Place As Process
- Place-making?
- What agency do people have in the place-making process?
- How do you decorate, organise your room? Who do you let in?
- More agency in place-making process -> more place belongingness
Place As Process
- Place belongingness?
- A sense of being ‘at home’, where individuals build an attachment to place over time
- Attachment to place though place-making over time, for example elderly not wanting to move out
Place As Process
- Politics of belonging?
- Processes of socio-spatial inclusions and exclusion
- We all belong in places that there are other people so the sense of belonging is based on those social dynamics
- There are spaces that are safe for some but not for others, race, language, social class
Place As Process
- Process of inclusion and exclusion?
- How can people be explicitly and implicitly included/excluded from place?
- Pushing homeless people out, so that they are not seen
- Hostile architecture towards homeless people
Place As Process
- Forms of resistance?
- How can places be made more welcoming?
- Indigenous art at Doctor’s office
Example of Place As Process discussed in class?
Philpplies worker in home nannies, making the space on the streets into a place during their breaks. Opportunity for mutual support for women to meet other women with similar experiences, might organise themselves in groups from the same villages.
Mobilities Paradigm, definition and example?
“…practices in and though which mobilises are produced and productive of relations of movement… with some groups moving, some not, some privileged, some displaced, some experiencing a burden of mobility, some brutally emplaced: an uneven relational landscape of mobilities.”
Places beckoning privatised. Fiji, the locals do not have access to the beaches. Such impact on everyday life, leisure and livelihood such a as fishing. Need to take the bus, pay for day access, or jumping high walls around resorts.
Community Spaces
Examining the role of minority community spaces for enabling migrants performance of intersectional identities though occupation
(Professors research, will be on exam!)
- Anglophone dominance despite official bilingualism
- Paradoxical role of the FMC for French-speaking immigrants & refugees
- Community spaces as supporting occupations and identities in minority contexts, depends on how many community members there are -> effects resources
- If you are facing a lot of barrier to integrate into a community, integrating into two might be even more challenging
- French is a colonial langue, so they are from different places with different cultures. Colonialism spreads out, all people speak French, but does not necessarily share other aspects.
Explain the Mapping Exercise, used in one of the articles?
- Creation of a ‘mental map’
- Draw a map of your neighbourhood/city
- Include the places you typically go
- Consider what occupations you engage in & where those occupations occur
- Image does not have to be to scale
- Be creative about how to include virtual spaces
Experiences of Methadone Maintenance Treatment
The relationship between language and occupation
Research objectives?
- Describe the challenges and disparities experienced in the everyday occupational lives of methadone clients
- Mat the daily lives of MMT clients and examine the ways in which these individuals orchestrate the use of their time
- Examine the routines, spaces, and interactions characterising the everyday occupational lives of individuals on MMT
