Spaces on the Spectrum - How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Tan
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.2024
• EAN: 9780231206136
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20613-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, Political activism, Abnormal psychology, Relating to people on the autism spectrum, Political activism / Political engagement