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War on autism : on the cultural logic of normative violence / Anne McGuire.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGuire, Anne, 1981-
- Series:
- Corporealities
- Corporealities: discourses of disability
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Autism--Social aspects.
- Autism.
- Violence.
- Sociology of disability.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- War on Autism examines autism as a historically specific and power-laden cultural phenomenon that has much to teach about the social organization of a neoliberal western modernity. Bringing together a variety of interpretive theoretical perspectives including critical disability studies, queer and critical race theory, and cultural studies, the book analyzes the social significance and productive effects of contemporary discourses of autism as these are produced and circulated in the field of autism advocacy. Anne McGuire reveals how in the field of autism advocacy, autism often appears as an abbreviation, its multiple meanings distilled to various "red flag" warnings in awareness campaigns, bulleted biomedical "facts" in information pamphlets, or worrisome statistics in policy reports. She analyzes the relationships between these fragmentary enactments of autism and traces their continuities to reveal an underlying, powerful, and ubiquitous logic of violence that casts autism as a pathological threat that advocacy must work to eliminate. Such logic, McGuire contends, functions to delimit the role of the "good" autism advocate to one who is positioned "against" autism. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Delivering Disorder: Historical Perspectives on the Emergence of Autism and Advocacy in the West 26
- 2 Raising the Red Flags of Autism: Advocacy's Call to Arms 67
- 3 Act NOW: The S/pace of Advocacy in a Temporality of Urgency 103
- 4 "We Have Your Son...": Frames of Terror in Advocacy's War on Autism 144
- 5 Collateral Damage: Normalizing Violence and the Violence of Normalcy 186.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472053124
- 9780472073122
- 9780472121922
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.7784427
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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