The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Autism Studies

by Damian Milton (Editor), Sara Ryan (Editor)

This handbook provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of Critical Autism Studies and explores the different kinds of knowledges and their articulations, similarities, and differences across cultural contexts and key tensions within this subdiscipline.
Critical Autism Studies is a developing area occupying an exciting space of development within learning and teaching in higher education. It has a strong trajectory within the autistic academic and advocate community in resistance and response to the persistence of autism retaining an identity as a genetic disorder of the brain.
Divided into four parts
• Conceptualising autism
• Autistic identity
• Community and culture
• Practice
and comprising 24 newly commissioned chapters written by academics and activists, it explores areas of education, Critical Race Theory, domestic violence and abuse, sexuality, biopolitics, health, and social care practices.
It will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, education, health, social care, and political science.

Genres: Nonfiction, Disability, Psychology, Autistic Spectrum Disorder

312 pages, Hardcover

Published December 22, 2022

Reviews

[Cal Davie · Rating 5 out of 5]

An absolute must read to understand the basics of the Critical Autism discipline. I particularly enjoyed Luke Beardon's contribution of "Autopia". This work filled with a variety of voices from Autistic scholars to non Autistic experts, and it fills the reader with frustration at our worlds treatment of Autistic people and hope for what the world could be.

[☾⋆｡ A °✩.⟡ · Rating 2 out of 5]

What's the point of introducing a new subset of autism research if you then contribute nothing to discourse on autism? Perhaps if future attempts are made, they should involve substantial rather than slight new insights...