Critical autism studies: exploring epistemic dialogues and intersections, challenging dominant understandings of autism
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Article Title | Critical autism studies: exploring epistemic dialogues and intersections, challenging dominant understandings of autism |
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ERA Journal ID | 35345 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | O'Dell, Lindsay (Author), Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna (Author), Ortega, Francisco (Author), Brownlow, Charlotte (Author) and Orsini, Michael (Author) |
Journal Title | Disability and Society |
Journal Citation | 31 (2), pp. 166-179 |
Number of Pages | 14 |
Year | 2016 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0968-7599 |
1360-0508 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2016.1164026 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2016.1164026#.V1S1lU1f0dk |
Abstract | In this paper 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. We outline key tensions for the development of critical autism studies as an international, critical abilities approach. 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’ to explore shifts in knowledge about autism, including concepts such as ‘neurodiversity’, and how these travel through cultural spaces. The paper explores two key epistemic tensions; the dominance of ‘neuro culture’ and dominant constructions of personhood and what it means to be human. |
Keywords | autism; critical autism studies; neurodiversity; epistemic communities |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 440902. Counselling, wellbeing and community services |
441099. Sociology not elsewhere classified | |
Public Notes | Third place winner for the USQ School-Specific 2016 Publication Excellence Awards for Journal Articles - School of Psychology and Counselling. |
Byline Affiliations | Open University, United Kingdom |
Umea University, Sweden | |
Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil | |
School of Psychology and Counselling | |
University of Ottawa, Canada | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Funding source | Grant ID IN-2014-035 |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q36y8/critical-autism-studies-exploring-epistemic-dialogues-and-intersections-challenging-dominant-understandings-of-autism
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