This handbook provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of Critical Autism Studies and explores the different kinds of knowledges and their articulations, similarities, and differences across cultural contexts and key tensions within this subdiscipline.
Critical Autism Studies is a developing area occupying an exciting space of development within learning and teaching in higher education. It has a strong trajectory within the autistic academic and advocate community in resistance and response to the persistence of autism retaining an identity as a genetic disorder of the brain.
Divided into four parts
• Conceptualising autism
• Autistic identity
• Community and culture
• Practice
and comprising 24 newly commissioned chapters written by academics and activists, it explores areas of education, Critical Race Theory, domestic violence and abuse, sexuality, biopolitics, health, and social care practices.
It will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, education, health, social care, and political science.
Author(s): Damian Milton, Sara Ryan
Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 325
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Chapter 1 Critical autism studies: An introduction
Part 1 Conceptualising autism
Chapter 2 First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is: whither identity?
Chapter 3 Critically contextualising ‘normal’ development and the construction of the autistic individual
Chapter 4 Dimensions of difference
Chapter 5 Heterogeneity and clustering in autism: An introduction for critical scholars
Chapter 6 Rational (Pathological) Demand Avoidance: As a mental disorder and an evolving social construct
Chapter 7 Community psychology as reparations for violence in the construction of autism knowledge
Part 2 Autistic identity
Chapter 8 Through the lens of (Black) Critical Race Theory
Chapter 9 Postponing humanity: Pathologising autism, childhood and motherhood
Chapter 10 ‘It sort of like gets squared’: Health professionals’ understanding of the intersection of autism and gender diversity in young people
Chapter 11 Autistic young people’s sense of self and the social world: A challenge to deficit-focused characterisations
Chapter 12 A personal account of neurodiversity, academia and activism
Part 3 Community and culture
Chapter 13 ‘Autopia’: A vision for autistic acceptance and belonging
Chapter 14 The Moulin Rouge and the Rouge Moulin: Language, Cartesianism, republicanism and the construct of autism in France
Chapter 15 Support on whose terms? Competing meanings of support aimed at autistic people
Chapter 16 Critical autism parenting
Chapter 17 “Even though I’m on the spectrum, I’m still capable of falling in love”: A Bourdieusian analysis of representations of autism and sexuality on Love on the Spectrum
Chapter 18 Seeking sunflowers: The biopolitics of autism at the airport
Part 4 Practice
Chapter 19 Autistic identity, culture, community, and space for well-being
Chapter 20 Contemplating teacher talk through a critical autism studies lens
Chapter 21 Models of helping and coping with autism
Chapter 22 Critical approaches to autism support practice: Engaging situated reflection and research
Chapter 23 From disempowerment to well-being and flow: Enabling autistic communication in schools
Chapter 24 Autistic voices in Autistic research: Towards active citizenship in Autism research
Index
