Narrating the Many Autisms - Identity, Agency, Mattering

A stirring and meaningful departure from atomized accounts of neurological difference, Narrating the Many Autisms ponders big questions about its topic and finds clarity and meaning in the sense-making practices of autistic individuals and groups.

List of contents

Introduction: Beyond the Neurological Subject Part I. On Autistic Intelligibility 1. The Matter of a First-person Perspective 2. Master narratives, Counterstories, and the Challenges of Mutual Recognition Part II. On Autistic Sensibility 3. Sensory Subjects, Facilitated 4. Competence, Communication and Connection in the Anthropocene Part III. Autistic Collaboration 5. Toward a Community-Oriented Research Strategy Conclusion: Provocations on Why Autistic People Matter

About the author

Anna Stenning, PhD, is a research associate at Durham University. She is the editor of a collection of essays on walking, literature, and the visual arts entitled Walking, Landscape, Environment (Routledge, 2020), and the editor of and a contributor to Neurodiversity: A New Critical Paradigm (Routledge, 2020).

Product details

• Authors: Anna Stenning, Anna (University of Worcester Stenning
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032707525
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3270752-5
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: The Routledge Series Integrating Science and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Psychotherapy, Literary studies: general, Disability: social aspects, Literary theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disability, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Disability