Tan, Catherine
Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge
- ISBN 13:
- 9780231206136
- author:
- Tan, Catherine
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 400
- Dimensions:
- 21.6 x 14 x 2.3 centimetres (0.5
- Genre:
- Professional & Vocational, Nonfiction, Social Sciences,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge
Catherine Tan's new book explores two autism-focused movements that challenge conventional understandings of autism spectrum disorder. Through in-depth ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, she sheds light on how members contest expert authority and develop new accounts of knowledge construction.
The book examines the autistic rights movement and the alternative biomedical movement, which reimagine autism in different ways. Tan reveals how ideas that conflict with dominant beliefs can take hold and persist, highlighting the importance of social movements as spaces for constructing knowledge that challenges dominant frameworks.
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