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War on Autism

Anne McGuire
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      Autism is widely understood in contemporary times as nothing more than a biomedical disorder in need of treatment and/or cure. War on Autism disrupts this singularity by examining autism as a historically specific and power-laden cultural phenomenon that has much to teach about the social organization of a neoliberal western modernity. Bringing together a variety of interpretive theoretical perspectives including critical disability studies, queer and critical race theory, and cultural studies, the book analyzes the social significance and productive effects of contemporary discourses of autism as these are produced and circulated in the field of autism advocacy. Anne McGuire discusses how in the field of autism advocacy, autism often appears as an abbreviation, its multiple meanings distilled to various “red flag” warnings in awareness campaigns, bulleted biomedical ”facts” in information pamphlets, or worrisome statistics in policy reports. She analyzes the relationships between these fragmentary enactments of autism and traces their continuities to reveal an underlying, powerful, and ubiquitous logic of violence that casts autism as a pathological threat that advocacy must work to eliminate. Such logic, McGuire contends, functions to delimit the role of the “good” autism advocate to one who is positioned “against” autism.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Anne McGuire EAN: 9780472053124 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 420 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Michigan Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2016-04-28 CITY: GENRE: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Autism Spectrum Disorders, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Cultural studies, Disability: social aspects

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      Anne McGuire is Assistant Professor in the Equity Studies Program at New College, University of Toronto, Canada.
      Autism is widely understood in contemporary times as nothing more than a biomedical disorder in need of treatment and/or cure. War on Autism disrupts this singularity by examining autism as a historically specific and power-laden cultural phenomenon that has much to teach about the social organization of a neoliberal western modernity. Bringing together a variety of interpretive theoretical perspectives including critical disability studies, queer and critical race theory, and cultural studies, the book analyzes the social significance and productive effects of contemporary discourses of autism as these are produced and circulated in the field of autism advocacy. Anne McGuire discusses how in the field of autism advocacy, autism often appears as an abbreviation, its multiple meanings distilled to various “red flag” warnings in awareness campaigns, bulleted biomedical ”facts” in information pamphlets, or worrisome statistics in policy reports. She analyzes the relationships between these fragmentary enactments of autism and traces their continuities to reveal an underlying, powerful, and ubiquitous logic of violence that casts autism as a pathological threat that advocacy must work to eliminate. Such logic, McGuire contends, functions to delimit the role of the “good” autism advocate to one who is positioned “against” autism.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Anne McGuire EAN: 9780472053124 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 420 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Michigan Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2016-04-28 CITY: GENRE: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Autism Spectrum Disorders, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Cultural studies, Disability: social aspects

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      Anne McGuire is Assistant Professor in the Equity Studies Program at New College, University of Toronto, Canada.

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