Catherine Tan

Spaces on the Spectrum

How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on more than three years of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with participants, Catherine Tan investigates two autism-focused movements, shedding new light on how members contest expert authority.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 139mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780231206136
• ISBN-10: 0231206135
• Artikelnr.: 69114634

Autorenporträt

Catherine Tan is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Vassar College.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Position
Acknowledgments
1. Warriors and Aliens: Challenging Autism Experts
2. Reimagining Autism: As a Difference to Accept, as a Sickness to Treat
3. Seeking Hope and Support: Pathways to Autism Movements
4. Knowing One's Tribe: The Transformation of Autistic Rights Into Reality
5. Laboratories and Experimentation: The Tools and Strategies of "Recovery"
6. The Outsiders: Resisting Criticism and Claiming Legitimacy
7. Making Space for the Spectrum
Appendix A. Interview Protocols
Appendix B. Participants
Notes
Bibliography
Index