Critical autism studies: exploring epistemic dialogues and intersections, challenging dominant understandings of autism
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Paper/Presentation Title | Critical autism studies: exploring epistemic dialogues and intersections, challenging dominant understandings of autism |
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Presentation Type | Presentation |
Authors | O'Dell, Lindsay (Author), Brownlow, Charlotte (Author), Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna (Author), Orsini, Michael (Author) and Ortega, Francisco (Author) |
Number of Pages | 1 |
Year | 2015 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://www.coventry.ac.uk/events/ISTP2015/ |
Conference/Event | 16th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology Conference |
Event Details | 16th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology Conference Event Date 26 to end of 30 Jun 2015 Event Location Coventry, UK |
Abstract | In this presentation we explore how our cultural contexts give rise to different kinds of knowledges of autism and examine how they are articulated, gain currency, and form the basis for policy, practice and political movements. Our aim is not to offer a cross-cultural account of autism or to assume a coherence or universality of ‘autism’ as a singular diagnostic category/reality. Rather, we map the ways in which what is experienced and understood as autism plays out in different cultural contexts, drawing on the notion of ‘epistemic communities’ (Whelan, 2007) to explore shifts in knowledge about autism, including concepts such as ‘neurodiversity’, and how these travel through cultural spaces. We outline key tensions in conceptualising autism critically as an international, critical abilities approach. The presentation explores key epistemic tensions in the dominance of ‘neuro culture’ (Ortega & Vidal, 2013), dominant constructions of personhood and what it |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 529999. Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
Public Notes | Abstract only published. |
Byline Affiliations | Open University, United Kingdom |
School of Psychology and Counselling | |
Umea University, Sweden | |
University of Ottawa, Canada | |
Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q324y/critical-autism-studies-exploring-epistemic-dialogues-and-intersections-challenging-dominant-understandings-of-autism
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