Contributions to the foundations of situated Occupational Therapies. Dialogue with Sandra Galheigo’s presentation at the First International Meeting of Occupational Therapies from the South

Abstract

The article presents a dialogue with Sandra Galheigo’s presentation “Critical Occupational Therapy and ethical and political commitment in the context of the South: axes for the construction of emancipatory practices”, presented at the First International Meeting of Occupational Therapies from the South, which took place in the University of Santiago de Chile, in November 2018. Galheigo proposes six axes of emancipatory practices based on developments authored by Brazilian OTs since the late 1970s, together with people with disabilities, psychological suffering and/or in situations of social vulnerability, as contributions to the practices of Occupational Therapy in Southern contexts. In dialogue with this approach, we return to previous productions and propose nuances and foundations that have nourished our way of understanding and doing Occupational Therapy for decades, from what we choose to call the poetics of activity. These arise from processes of conversation, problematization and integration of and about professional training and the development of shared actions in different spaces of praxis that have given rise to projects guided by concepts of community mental health, human rights, knowledge production, daily life. and citizen participation.