Jason Tougaw
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780300221176
- eISBN:
- 9780300235609
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300221176.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
The Elusive Brain is the first comprehensive survey of contemporary literature’s engagement with neuroscience. Jason Tougaw analyzes the works of contemporary writers—including Oliver Sacks, Temple ...
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The Elusive Brain is the first comprehensive survey of contemporary literature’s engagement with neuroscience. Jason Tougaw analyzes the works of contemporary writers—including Oliver Sacks, Temple Grandin, Richard Powers, Maud Casey, Jonathan Lethem, Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay, and Siri Hustvedt, Ellen Forney, and David B.—arguing that their experiments with literary form offer a necessary counterbalance to a wider cultural neuromania that seeks out purely neural explanations for human behaviors as varied as reading, economics, empathy, and racism. Tougaw surveys memoirs about life with autism, epilepsy manic depression, or brain injury; revisionist mystery novels; and graphic narratives that engage neuroscience. The book argues that these works offer insight about how it feels and what it means to live with a brain whose role in the making of self or consciousness is far from fully understood. Brain memoirs and neuronovels revel in the mysteries of the explanatory gap between brain physiology and mental experience. In the process, these literary works offer an antidote to polarizing and outmoded debates about the “cerebral subject,” whether we are our brains (or not our brains). Rather than engaging in abstract philosophical debate, these literary works explore questions about neurodiversity politics and the stakes of rapidly advancing brain research for people whose experience represent what critic Ralph Savarese calls “all manner of neurologies.” Less
The Elusive Brain is the first comprehensive survey of contemporary literature’s engagement with neuroscience. Jason Tougaw analyzes the works of contemporary writers—including Oliver Sacks, Temple Grandin, Richard Powers, Maud Casey, Jonathan Lethem, Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay, and Siri Hustvedt, Ellen Forney, and David B.—arguing that their experiments with literary form offer a necessary counterbalance to a wider cultural neuromania that seeks out purely neural explanations for human behaviors as varied as reading, economics, empathy, and racism. Tougaw surveys memoirs about life with autism, epilepsy manic depression, or brain injury; revisionist mystery novels; and graphic narratives that engage neuroscience. The book argues that these works offer insight about how it feels and what it means to live with a brain whose role in the making of self or consciousness is far from fully understood. Brain memoirs and neuronovels revel in the mysteries of the explanatory gap between brain physiology and mental experience. In the process, these literary works offer an antidote to polarizing and outmoded debates about the “cerebral subject,” whether we are our brains (or not our brains). Rather than engaging in abstract philosophical debate, these literary works explore questions about neurodiversity politics and the stakes of rapidly advancing brain research for people whose experience represent what critic Ralph Savarese calls “all manner of neurologies.”
Jennifer S. Singh
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816698301
- eISBN:
- 9781452953694
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816698301.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine
Multiple Autisms investigates the emergence of autism as a genetic disorder and why the search for autism genes became a research priority for private and public funding agencies in the U.S. since ...
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Multiple Autisms investigates the emergence of autism as a genetic disorder and why the search for autism genes became a research priority for private and public funding agencies in the U.S. since the late 20th century. This research is based on nine years of ethnographic observations, analysis of scientific and related literatures, and over seventy interviews with autism scientists, parents of a child with autism, and people on the autism spectrum. This book maps out the social history of parental activism in autism genetics, the scientific optimism and subsequent failure of finding a gene for autism, and the shift to viewing autism as multiple entities resulting from hundreds or thousands of genes interacting at the molecular level. The analysis also takes into account the social impacts of translating autism through a genomic lens from the perspective of people living with autism and their families. This book shows how despite the billion-dollar pursuit of finding a gene for autism, the understanding of this condition remains elusive and the utility of genetic information has limited value in the immediate lives of people living with autism.Less
Multiple Autisms investigates the emergence of autism as a genetic disorder and why the search for autism genes became a research priority for private and public funding agencies in the U.S. since the late 20th century. This research is based on nine years of ethnographic observations, analysis of scientific and related literatures, and over seventy interviews with autism scientists, parents of a child with autism, and people on the autism spectrum. This book maps out the social history of parental activism in autism genetics, the scientific optimism and subsequent failure of finding a gene for autism, and the shift to viewing autism as multiple entities resulting from hundreds or thousands of genes interacting at the molecular level. The analysis also takes into account the social impacts of translating autism through a genomic lens from the perspective of people living with autism and their families. This book shows how despite the billion-dollar pursuit of finding a gene for autism, the understanding of this condition remains elusive and the utility of genetic information has limited value in the immediate lives of people living with autism.
Jason Tougaw
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780300221176
- eISBN:
- 9780300235609
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300221176.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
In this interlude, Tougaw examines two major cultural responses to advances in neuroscience: neurodiversity politics and the U.S.-European race to “map” the brain in the hope of creating a dynamic ...
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In this interlude, Tougaw examines two major cultural responses to advances in neuroscience: neurodiversity politics and the U.S.-European race to “map” the brain in the hope of creating a dynamic digital “brain atlas.” While neurodiversity activists emphasize the difference from one human brain to another, the brain atlas projects aim to create a composite of the human brain. The interlude examines the inevitable contradictions that arise from both points of view, arguing that both are valuable but that neurodiversity politics and scientific efforts to map the composite brain would benefit from more mutual dialogue. Less
In this interlude, Tougaw examines two major cultural responses to advances in neuroscience: neurodiversity politics and the U.S.-European race to “map” the brain in the hope of creating a dynamic digital “brain atlas.” While neurodiversity activists emphasize the difference from one human brain to another, the brain atlas projects aim to create a composite of the human brain. The interlude examines the inevitable contradictions that arise from both points of view, arguing that both are valuable but that neurodiversity politics and scientific efforts to map the composite brain would benefit from more mutual dialogue.
Jason Tougaw
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780300221176
- eISBN:
- 9780300235609
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300221176.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
In this chapter, Tougaw examines multiple autobiographies by three autistic writers: Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay, Naoki Higashida, and John Elder Robison. Like other brain memoirists, these authors ...
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In this chapter, Tougaw examines multiple autobiographies by three autistic writers: Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay, Naoki Higashida, and John Elder Robison. Like other brain memoirists, these authors write to craft agency in response to the accidents of physiology and culture that shape their identities. But they also write more explicitly as rhetoricians, makers of emergent and rapidly evolving autistic culture and neurodiversity politics. The marketing of their books, as with most autistic autobiographers, tends to focus on the power of the writing to take readers “inside” autistic minds or worlds. In their writing, though, they emphasize writing as the power to challenge stereotypes about autism, assert their authority, and shape cultural debate.Less
In this chapter, Tougaw examines multiple autobiographies by three autistic writers: Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay, Naoki Higashida, and John Elder Robison. Like other brain memoirists, these authors write to craft agency in response to the accidents of physiology and culture that shape their identities. But they also write more explicitly as rhetoricians, makers of emergent and rapidly evolving autistic culture and neurodiversity politics. The marketing of their books, as with most autistic autobiographers, tends to focus on the power of the writing to take readers “inside” autistic minds or worlds. In their writing, though, they emphasize writing as the power to challenge stereotypes about autism, assert their authority, and shape cultural debate.
Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816688883
- eISBN:
- 9781452949239
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816688883.001.0001
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Marking the culmination of a collaborative and interdisciplinary effort that began with a 2010 workshop at the University of Ottawa, Worlds of Autism: Across the Spectrum of Neurological Difference ...
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Marking the culmination of a collaborative and interdisciplinary effort that began with a 2010 workshop at the University of Ottawa, Worlds of Autism: Across the Spectrum of Neurological Difference features contributors from Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Brazil, Australia, and France. The work brings together a range of perspectives by uniting researchers who are concerned, to a greater or lesser degree, with autistic subjectivities and the politics of cognitive difference. To our knowledge, this is the first time that a project of this scope – in both methodological and conceptual terms – has been carried out in critical autism studies. As such, we have every reason to expect that the text will help to establish a clear direction for future research in this field. Theoretically framed and empirically informed, this work is divided into four main sections: (1) Approaching Autism, (2) Researching the Politics and Practice of Care, (3) Diagnosis and Difference in Autism, and (4) Cultural Productions and Representations of Autism. The volume serves to challenge the deficit model of autism, which is prevalent in literature that advocates a “cure” for neurodevelopmental difference. By contrast, this work contributes to a growing body of research that uses an abilities model to reframe autism as a complex, relational (dis)order that challenges stereotypes of what has long been regarded as “normal” human experience.Less
Marking the culmination of a collaborative and interdisciplinary effort that began with a 2010 workshop at the University of Ottawa, Worlds of Autism: Across the Spectrum of Neurological Difference features contributors from Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Brazil, Australia, and France. The work brings together a range of perspectives by uniting researchers who are concerned, to a greater or lesser degree, with autistic subjectivities and the politics of cognitive difference. To our knowledge, this is the first time that a project of this scope – in both methodological and conceptual terms – has been carried out in critical autism studies. As such, we have every reason to expect that the text will help to establish a clear direction for future research in this field. Theoretically framed and empirically informed, this work is divided into four main sections: (1) Approaching Autism, (2) Researching the Politics and Practice of Care, (3) Diagnosis and Difference in Autism, and (4) Cultural Productions and Representations of Autism. The volume serves to challenge the deficit model of autism, which is prevalent in literature that advocates a “cure” for neurodevelopmental difference. By contrast, this work contributes to a growing body of research that uses an abilities model to reframe autism as a complex, relational (dis)order that challenges stereotypes of what has long been regarded as “normal” human experience.
Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816688883
- eISBN:
- 9781452949239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816688883.003.0001
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Michael Orsini and Joyce Davidson The work brings together a range of perspectives by uniting researchers who are concerned, to a greater or lesser degree, with autistic subjectivities and the ...
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Michael Orsini and Joyce Davidson The work brings together a range of perspectives by uniting researchers who are concerned, to a greater or lesser degree, with autistic subjectivities and the politics of cognitive difference. International, trans-disciplinary approach brings philosophers and critical theorists into dialogue with researchers who have conducted case studies of autism within the social sciences and humanities; Situates autism within an abilities framework that respects the complex personhood of autistic individuals, in contrast to the deficit model prevalent in much existing clinical literature; Suitable for scholars, policymakers, autistic individuals, and other individuals and groups involved in developing strategies and services with, and for, autistic people.Less
Michael Orsini and Joyce Davidson The work brings together a range of perspectives by uniting researchers who are concerned, to a greater or lesser degree, with autistic subjectivities and the politics of cognitive difference. International, trans-disciplinary approach brings philosophers and critical theorists into dialogue with researchers who have conducted case studies of autism within the social sciences and humanities; Situates autism within an abilities framework that respects the complex personhood of autistic individuals, in contrast to the deficit model prevalent in much existing clinical literature; Suitable for scholars, policymakers, autistic individuals, and other individuals and groups involved in developing strategies and services with, and for, autistic people.
Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816688883
- eISBN:
- 9781452949239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816688883.003.0002
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Patrick McDonagh The notion of empathy, like that of intelligence, seems to require outsiders – like those with autism – whose exclusion from “empathic consciousness” can assure the rest of us that ...
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Patrick McDonagh The notion of empathy, like that of intelligence, seems to require outsiders – like those with autism – whose exclusion from “empathic consciousness” can assure the rest of us that we are acceptably empathic. This chapter challenges the use of autism as a test case for validating the concept of empathy.Less
Patrick McDonagh The notion of empathy, like that of intelligence, seems to require outsiders – like those with autism – whose exclusion from “empathic consciousness” can assure the rest of us that we are acceptably empathic. This chapter challenges the use of autism as a test case for validating the concept of empathy.
Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816688883
- eISBN:
- 9781452949239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816688883.003.0003
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Stuart Murray Drawing on theory, clinical conceptions, ideas of possible medical futures, and writings from those with autism themselves, this chapter aims to think through the multiple and often ...
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Stuart Murray Drawing on theory, clinical conceptions, ideas of possible medical futures, and writings from those with autism themselves, this chapter aims to think through the multiple and often confusing arguments that come with the juxtaposition of the terms autism and the posthuman.Less
Stuart Murray Drawing on theory, clinical conceptions, ideas of possible medical futures, and writings from those with autism themselves, this chapter aims to think through the multiple and often confusing arguments that come with the juxtaposition of the terms autism and the posthuman.
Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816688883
- eISBN:
- 9781452949239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816688883.003.0004
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Francisco Ortega This chapter analyzes the relationship between autistic people and their brains. In particular, it explores how a brain-related vocabulary was mobilized by autistic self-advocates to ...
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Francisco Ortega This chapter analyzes the relationship between autistic people and their brains. In particular, it explores how a brain-related vocabulary was mobilized by autistic self-advocates to deconstruct deficit-focused narratives of autism. At the same time, it challenges the idea that neuroscience is radically transforming notions of personhood and community.Less
Francisco Ortega This chapter analyzes the relationship between autistic people and their brains. In particular, it explores how a brain-related vocabulary was mobilized by autistic self-advocates to deconstruct deficit-focused narratives of autism. At the same time, it challenges the idea that neuroscience is radically transforming notions of personhood and community.
Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816688883
- eISBN:
- 9781452949239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816688883.003.0005
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Charlotte Brownlow and Lindsay O’Dell The neurodiversity movement claims autism as a difference (and often as a superior identity). This chapter considers how a biological explanation of autism has ...
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Charlotte Brownlow and Lindsay O’Dell The neurodiversity movement claims autism as a difference (and often as a superior identity). This chapter considers how a biological explanation of autism has been refashioned into a neurological account of neurodiversity, which can help people with autism to engage with negative and disabling mainstream models of autism.Less
Charlotte Brownlow and Lindsay O’Dell The neurodiversity movement claims autism as a difference (and often as a superior identity). This chapter considers how a biological explanation of autism has been refashioned into a neurological account of neurodiversity, which can help people with autism to engage with negative and disabling mainstream models of autism.
Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816688883
- eISBN:
- 9781452949239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816688883.003.0006
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Maja Holmer Nadesan This chapter considers the politics behind competing explanations for autism. Critiquing the dominant frame governing autism research and public funding for autism, the author ...
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Maja Holmer Nadesan This chapter considers the politics behind competing explanations for autism. Critiquing the dominant frame governing autism research and public funding for autism, the author argues that genetic research trajectories and practices have the potential to reduce autistic persons to a form of “bare life” denied social equality and political representations.Less
Maja Holmer Nadesan This chapter considers the politics behind competing explanations for autism. Critiquing the dominant frame governing autism research and public funding for autism, the author argues that genetic research trajectories and practices have the potential to reduce autistic persons to a form of “bare life” denied social equality and political representations.
Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816688883
- eISBN:
- 9781452949239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816688883.003.0007
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Kristin Bumiller The life chances of people with disabilities, and in particular those with autism, are highly determined by state policies. This chapter offers a critical perspective on how the ...
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Kristin Bumiller The life chances of people with disabilities, and in particular those with autism, are highly determined by state policies. This chapter offers a critical perspective on how the treatment of children with disabilities and the proscriptions for future policies are directly connected to the changing nature of state responsibility.Less
Kristin Bumiller The life chances of people with disabilities, and in particular those with autism, are highly determined by state policies. This chapter offers a critical perspective on how the treatment of children with disabilities and the proscriptions for future policies are directly connected to the changing nature of state responsibility.
Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816688883
- eISBN:
- 9781452949239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816688883.003.0008
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Dora Raymaker and Christina Nicolaidis This chapter surveys key issues in minority-scientist social dynamics and how they shape traditional autism research. Drawing examples from a project with ...
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Dora Raymaker and Christina Nicolaidis This chapter surveys key issues in minority-scientist social dynamics and how they shape traditional autism research. Drawing examples from a project with autistic adults, the chapter examines how community based participatory research challenges traditional approaches to research, providing a historically effective route to social change for minority communities.Less
Dora Raymaker and Christina Nicolaidis This chapter surveys key issues in minority-scientist social dynamics and how they shape traditional autism research. Drawing examples from a project with autistic adults, the chapter examines how community based participatory research challenges traditional approaches to research, providing a historically effective route to social change for minority communities.
Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816688883
- eISBN:
- 9781452949239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816688883.003.0009
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Sara Ryan Analyzing data from two qualitative research projects in which people with autism spectrum disorder were asked to talk about their experiences, this chapter considers the ambiguity ...
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Sara Ryan Analyzing data from two qualitative research projects in which people with autism spectrum disorder were asked to talk about their experiences, this chapter considers the ambiguity surrounding diagnosis and considers what an “official” diagnosis means in terms of the development of a reflexive autistic self.Less
Sara Ryan Analyzing data from two qualitative research projects in which people with autism spectrum disorder were asked to talk about their experiences, this chapter considers the ambiguity surrounding diagnosis and considers what an “official” diagnosis means in terms of the development of a reflexive autistic self.
Jennifer S. Singh
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816698301
- eISBN:
- 9781452953694
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816698301.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine
Chapter 3 charts the scientific and social histories of investigating autism as genetic (one gene/one autism) and shifts to genomics (many genes/many autisms). It traces the initial optimism and ...
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Chapter 3 charts the scientific and social histories of investigating autism as genetic (one gene/one autism) and shifts to genomics (many genes/many autisms). It traces the initial optimism and subsequent failure to find a major gene for autism, and technological convergence of “autisms” with multiple diseases at the molecular level.Less
Chapter 3 charts the scientific and social histories of investigating autism as genetic (one gene/one autism) and shifts to genomics (many genes/many autisms). It traces the initial optimism and subsequent failure to find a major gene for autism, and technological convergence of “autisms” with multiple diseases at the molecular level.
Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816688883
- eISBN:
- 9781452949239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816688883.003.0010
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Dana Lee Baker and Lila Walsh This chapter examines the degree to which the needs and interests of so-called low- and high-functioning individuals with autism are set in tension with one another in ...
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Dana Lee Baker and Lila Walsh This chapter examines the degree to which the needs and interests of so-called low- and high-functioning individuals with autism are set in tension with one another in Canadian political discourse. The authors consider autism within disability policy before moving on to discuss the historical development of autism as a public concern.Less
Dana Lee Baker and Lila Walsh This chapter examines the degree to which the needs and interests of so-called low- and high-functioning individuals with autism are set in tension with one another in Canadian political discourse. The authors consider autism within disability policy before moving on to discuss the historical development of autism as a public concern.
Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816688883
- eISBN:
- 9781452949239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816688883.003.0011
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Brigitte Chamak and Beatrice Bonniau This chapter provides a comparative perspective on autism advocacy using insights gleaned from the study of health social movements. By refocusing attention on ...
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Brigitte Chamak and Beatrice Bonniau This chapter provides a comparative perspective on autism advocacy using insights gleaned from the study of health social movements. By refocusing attention on contested perspectives of community organization, the chapter sheds light on how people with autism (and non-autistic others) organize themselves and others for diverse political ends.Less
Brigitte Chamak and Beatrice Bonniau This chapter provides a comparative perspective on autism advocacy using insights gleaned from the study of health social movements. By refocusing attention on contested perspectives of community organization, the chapter sheds light on how people with autism (and non-autistic others) organize themselves and others for diverse political ends.
Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816688883
- eISBN:
- 9781452949239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816688883.003.0012
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Mark Osteen This chapter considers “the narrative problem of autism,” suggesting that autism stories tend to follow general rules that threaten to collapse autism’s diversity into a menu of formulae. ...
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Mark Osteen This chapter considers “the narrative problem of autism,” suggesting that autism stories tend to follow general rules that threaten to collapse autism’s diversity into a menu of formulae. By contrast, the author suggests that visual media may offer a more adequate means to narrate autism.Less
Mark Osteen This chapter considers “the narrative problem of autism,” suggesting that autism stories tend to follow general rules that threaten to collapse autism’s diversity into a menu of formulae. By contrast, the author suggests that visual media may offer a more adequate means to narrate autism.
Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816688883
- eISBN:
- 9781452949239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816688883.003.0013
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini This chapter investigates the perceived importance of the Internet for individuals on the autism spectrum. Drawing on a study of autistic autobiographies, the ...
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Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini This chapter investigates the perceived importance of the Internet for individuals on the autism spectrum. Drawing on a study of autistic autobiographies, the authors are concerned to examine the extent to which online activities expand or contract the social and emotional horizons of autistic life-worlds.Less
Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini This chapter investigates the perceived importance of the Internet for individuals on the autism spectrum. Drawing on a study of autistic autobiographies, the authors are concerned to examine the extent to which online activities expand or contract the social and emotional horizons of autistic life-worlds.
Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816688883
- eISBN:
- 9781452949239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816688883.003.0014
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Kristina Chew This chapter opens with a brief examination of current conventional approaches to speaking for and about autism and autistic people. The remainder of the chapter explores alternatives, ...
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Kristina Chew This chapter opens with a brief examination of current conventional approaches to speaking for and about autism and autistic people. The remainder of the chapter explores alternatives, discussing representational practice, and drawing on Walter Benjamin’s understanding of translation as a framework for re-centering people with autism as makers of meaning.Less
Kristina Chew This chapter opens with a brief examination of current conventional approaches to speaking for and about autism and autistic people. The remainder of the chapter explores alternatives, discussing representational practice, and drawing on Walter Benjamin’s understanding of translation as a framework for re-centering people with autism as makers of meaning.
