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Taking up a social constructionist position, this book illustrates the social and cultural construction of autism as made visible in everyday, educational, institutional and historical discourses, alongside a careful consideration of the bodily and material realities of embodied differences. The authors highlight the economic consequences of a disabling culture, and explore how autism fits within broader arguments related to normality, abnormality and stigma. To do this, they provide a theoretically and historically grounded discussion of autism-one designed to layer and complicate the discussions that surround autism and disability in schools, health clinics, and society writ large. In addition, they locate this discussion across two contexts - the US and the UK - and draw upon empirical examples to illustrate the key points. Located at the intersection of critical disability studies and discourse studies, the book offers a critical reframing of autism and childhood mental health disorders more generally. 

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Book category Books in German Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft Soziologie Methoden der empirischen und qualitativen Sozialforschung

• Full title: Social, Cultural, and Political Discourses of Autism
• Author: Michelle O'Reilly
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 216
• EAN: 9789402421330
• ISBN: 9402421335
• ID: 36653680
• Publisher: Springer
• Weight: 494 g
• Dimensions: 241 × 160 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. November 2021

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