Narrating the Many Autisms

ISBN-13: 9780367478384 / Twarda / 2024 / 240 str.

UK) Stenning Anna (University of Worcester

Opis

A stirring and meaningful departure from atomized accounts of neurological difference, Narrating the Many Autisms ponders big questions about its topic and finds clarity and meaning in the sense-making practices of autistic individuals and groups.

Recenzje

"Centering autistic voices and expressive forms, Narrating the Many Autisms affirms autistic agency and creativity, with words and beyond. In this remarkable book, Anna Stenning dismantles deficit assumptions and cultural stereotypes on autistic lifeworlds to offer an original and profound reflection on the many forms of social relatedness." 

Professor Laura Sterponi, Berkeley School of Education, University of California Berkeley.

"Dr. Anna Stenning advances the long road towards the realization of autistic ontological agency with her new book, Narrating the Many Autisms: Agency, Identity and Belonging. She defers to autistic autobiographies, narratives, and community knowledge to make space for autistic selfhood, which she argues should be a shared practice and commitment by the neuro-majority. At the same time, Stenning considers how Western medical and educational research misrepresents and misrecognizes autism by reducing a way of being in the world to a neurological impairment."

Alice Wexler, Ed.D., Professor Emerita of Art Education at SUNY New Paltz.

Spis treści

Introduction: Beyond the Neurological Subject  Part I. On Autistic Intelligibility  1. The Matter of a First-person Perspective  2. Masternarratives, Counterstories and the Challenges of Mutual Recognition  Part II. On Autistic Sensibility  3. Sensory Subjects, Facilitated  4. Competence, Communication and Connection in the Anthropocene  Part III. Autistic Collaboration  5. Toward a Community-Oriented Research Strategy  Conclusion: Cultural Agency and Kinship

O autorze

Anna Stenning, PhD, is a research associate at Durham University. She is editor of a collection of essays on walking, literature and the visual arts entitled, Walking, Landscape, Environment (Routledge, 2020), and editor of and contributor to Neurodiversity: A New Critical Paradigm (Routledge, 2020).