Everyday circulation and social occupational therapy praxis

Abstract

Marx provides a wide-ranging analysis of everyday life as the core of human praxis. An important aspect of everyday life is circulation, movement that promotes transit through sociopolitical territories, constituting what we call “everyday circulation”. This aspect of life is played out within the social dialectic and can be compulsory (reduced to mechanisms that maintain oppression and the status quo) or emancipatory (linked to desire, autonomy, broadening alternatives and the democratization of society and social goods). We defend that social occupational therapists make theoretical and methodological use of these concepts, developing strategies to promote emancipatory everyday circulation with subjects, individuals and groups whose lives are pervaded by material and immaterial barriers, facilitating the experience of and access to territories of life, encompassing creation, pleasure and awareness – thus strengthening citizenship and public participation.