Routledge International Handbook of Critical Autism Studies

<p>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. <br>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. <br>Divided into four parts <br>• Conceptualising autism <br>• Autistic identity <br>• Community and culture <br>• Practice <br>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. <br>It will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies sociology anthropology cultural studies education health social care and political science.</p>