Neurodiversity studies : a new critical paradigm / edited by Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Nick Chown and Anna Stenning.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna, 1976- editor.

Chown, Nick, editor.

Stenning, Anna, editor.

Series:

Routledge advances in sociology ; 285.

Routledge advances in sociology ; 285

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Developmental disabilities.

Brain--Variation.

Brain.

Intellectual disability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Neurodiversity Studies

Place of Publication:

Abingdon : Taylor & Francis, 2020.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Building on work in feminist studies, queer studies and critical race theory, this volume challenges the universality of propositions about human nature, by questioning the boundaries between predominant neurotypes and 'others', including dyslexics, autistics and ADHDers. This is the first work of its kind to bring cutting-edge research across disciplines to the concept of neurodiversity. It offers in-depth explorations of the themes of cure/prevention/eugenics; neurodivergent wellbeing; cross-neurotype communication; neurodiversity at work; and challenging brain-bound cognition. It analyses the role of neuro-normativity in theorising agency, and a proposal for a new alliance between the Hearing Voices Movement and neurodiversity. In doing so, we contribute to a cultural imperative to redefine what it means to be human. To this end, we propose a new field of enquiry that finds ways to support the inclusion of neurodivergent perspectives in knowledge production, and which questions the theoretical and mythological assumptions that produce the idea of the neurotypical. Working at the crossroads between sociology, critical psychology, medical humanities, critical disability studies, and critical autism studies, and sharing theoretical ground with critical race studies and critical queer studies, the proposed new field - neurodiversity studies - will be of interest to people working in all these areas"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I: Curing neurodivergence/eugenics

Chapter 1: The production of the 'normal' child: neurodiversity and the commodification of parenting

Chapter 2: Language games used to construct autism as pathology

Chapter 3: Is there an ethical case for the prevention and/or cure of autism?

Part II: Neurodivergent wellbeing

Chapter 4: Neurodiversity, disability, wellbeing

Chapter 5: Neurodiversity in a neurotypical world: an enactive framework for investigating autism and social institutions

Part III: Cross-neurotype communication

Chapter 6: Neurodiversity and cross-cultural communication

Chapter 7: Understanding empathy through a study of autistic life writing: on the importance of neurodivergent morality

Chapter 8: Sensory strangers: travels in normate sensory worlds

Chapter 9: Practical scholarship: optimising beneficial research collaborations between autistic scholars, professional services staff, and 'typical academics' in UK universities

Chapter 10: Designing an autistic space for research: exploring the impact of context, space, and sociality in autistic writing processes

Chapter 11: How individuals and institutions can learn to make room for human cognitive diversity: a personal perspective from my life in neuroscience

Chapter 12: Understanding autistic individuals: cognitive diversity not theoretical deficit

Part VI: Moving forwards

Chapter 13: Neuronormativity in theorising agency: an argument for a critical neurodiversity approach

Chapter 14: Defining neurodiversity for research and practice

Chapter 15: A new alliance? The Hearing Voices Movement and neurodiversity

Chapter 16: Neurodiversity studies: proposing a new field of inquiry.

Notes:

Chapter 7 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781000073805

1000073807

9780429322297

0429322291

OCLC:

1150829242