The Autism Industrial Complex : How Branding, Marketing, and Capital Investment Turned Autism into Big Business.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broderick, Alicia A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autism spectrum disorders--Social aspects.

Autism spectrum disorders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomfield : Myers Education Press, 2022.

Summary:

Autism--a concept that barely existed 75 years ago--currently feeds multiple, multi-billion-dollar-a-year, global industries. In The Autism Industrial Complex: How Branding, Marketing, and Capital Investment Turned Autism into Big Business, Alicia A. Broderick analyzes how we got from the 11 children first identified by Leo Kanner in 1943 as "autistic" to the billion-dollar autism industries that are booming today. Broderick argues that, within the Autism Industrial Complex (AIC), almost anyone can capitalize on--and profit from--autism, and she also shows us how. The AIC has not always been there: it was built, conjured, created, manufactured, produced, not out of thin air, but out of ideologies, rhetorics, branding, business plans, policy lobbying, media saturation, capital investment, and the bodies of autistic people. Broderick excavates the 75-year-long history of the concept of autism, and shows us how the AIC--and indeed, autism today--can only be understood within capitalism itself. The Autism Industrial Complexis essential reading for a wide variety of audiences, from autistic activists, to professionals in the autism industries, to educators, to parents, to graduate students in public policy, (special) education, psychology, economics, and rhetoric.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword - Anne McGuire

Part One: Forging The Autism Industrial Complex: Manufacturing Foundational Commodities (1943-1987)

Chapter 1: Autism, Inc.: The Autism Industrial Complex (by Alicia A. Broderick and Robin Roscigno)

Chapter 2: Consuming Autism as Social Problem and the Cultural Logic of Intervention (by Alicia A. Broderick and Robin Roscigno)

Part Two: (Re)Branding and Marketing the AIC: Manufacturing Markets, Consumers, &amp

Consumer Confidence (1987-present)

Chapter 3: Rhetoric and Neoliberalism: On (Re)Branding and Consuming Hope

Chapter 4: The Politics of Hope: Autism and "Recovery [to Normalcy]"

Chapter 5: The Politics of Truth: Deploying Scientism in ABA Rhetoric

Chapter 6: The Politics of Fear: The Fires that Forged the Economic Apparatus of the AIC

Part Three: The Economic Apparatus of the AIC: Incorporation, Legislation, and Capital Investment (1998-present)

Chapter 7: Intervention, Inc.: Nonprofit Corporations and Venture Capital

Chapter 8: Prevention, Inc.: The Cultural Logic of Prevention, Basic Research, Hedging Bets, and Perennial (re)Branding

Part Four: Autism and Biocapital: On Precarity and Futurity

Chapter 9: Autism and Biocapitalist Emergences: Biopolitical Technologies of Control

Chapter 10: On Being Autistic in Neoliberal Capitalist Ruins: Endemic Precarity and Autistic Futurity

About the Author

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Broderick, Alicia A. The Autism Industrial Complex

ISBN:

9781975501860

OCLC:

1293259846