Part VI: Moving forwards. Nick Chown. Anna Stenning, Nick Chown -- Part I: Curing neurodivergence/eugenics. Neurodiversity studies : proposing a new field of inquiry / Mitzi Waltz -- Language games used to construct autism as pathology / Nick Chown -- Is there an ethical case for the prevention and/or cure of autism? / Viriginia Bovell -- Part II: Neurodivergent wellbeing. Neurodiversity, disability, wellbeing / Robert Chapman -- Neurodiversity in a neurotypical world : an enactive framework for investigating autism and social institutions / Alan Jurgens -- Part III: Cross-neurotype communication. Neurodiversity and cross-cultural communication / Alyssa Hillary -- Understanding empathy through a study of autistic life writing : on the importance of neurodivergent morality / Anna Stenning -- Sensory strangers : travels in normate sensory worlds / David Jackson-Perry, Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist Jenn Layton Annable, Marianthi Kourti -- Part IV: Neurodiversity at work. Practical scholarship : optimising beneficial research collaborations between autistic scholars, professional services staff, and 'typical academics' in UK universities / Nicola Martin -- Designing an autistic space for research : exploring the impact of context, space, and sociality in autistic writing processes / Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Linda Örulv, Serena Hasselblad, Dennis Hansson, Kirke Nilsson, Hajo Seng -- How individuals and institutions can learn to make room for human cognitive diversity : a personal perspective from my life in neuroscience / Matthew K. Belmonte -- Part V: Challenging brain-bound cognition. Understanding autistic individuals : cognitive diversity not theoretical deficit / Inês Hipólito, Daniel D. Hutto, Nick Chown -- Part VI: Moving forwards. Neuronormativity in theorising agency : an argument for a ritical neurodiversity approach Dieuwert Je Dyi Huijg -- Defining neurodiversity for research and practice / Robert Chapman -- A new alliance? : The Hearing Voices Movement and neurodiversity / Akiko Hart -- Neurodiversity studies : proposing a new field of inquiry / Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Anna Stenning, Nick Chown.
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.
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