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ISBN 10: 1138491993
ISBN 13: 9781138491991
Author: Robert Rourke
This innovative book places the sensory experiences of autistic individuals within a sociological framework. It instigates new discussions around sensory experience, autism and how disability and ability can be reconceived. Autism is commonly understood to involve social and communication difficulties. Less commented upon is the sensory challenges faced by those with autism. Sociology is no different, focusing on communication and neglecting the sensory dimensions of experience. Sensory experiences and relations are central to how we understand and navigate through the natural and social worlds, and mediate our interactions with other people, objects and spaces. In this book, the author explores how these processes are affected by the favourite activities of autistic people. With real-life case studies and cutting-edge research, this book will be useful to students, autistic people, advocates and carers, disability studies researchers and sociologies of disability and the senses.
Table of contents:
1. Introduction: Exploring autism, the senses and autoethnography
A sensory beginning
Autism spectrum conditions: categorisation and expanding definitions
Sociological imaginations and forming habits
Autoethnography as sociological imagination
Redefining autism through favourite quasi-objects
Notes on research and chapter exercises
Conclusion: outline of chapters
2. Sensory habits as pragmatic quasi-objects
Introduction
A brief sociological trajectory of the senses
Pragmatic habits as mediating senses
Habitual favourites as a concept
Reassessing sensory sociology and habitual favourites with autism
Michel Serres, the parasite and quasi-objects
Habitual favourites as quasi-objects: the sensory autistic manifold
Conclusion
Chapter exercises
3. Habitual favourites: Modulated thresholds and quasi-objects
Introduction: an outline of the chapter
Factors impacting the relationships to favourites in autism
Developing the quasi-object concept
Some comments on using an ‘events’-based analysis
Doug: cats, technological quasi-objects and Soylent as parasite
Garry: multimodal anxiety relief and social management
Josh: escalator sickness
Conclusion: reformulating parasites and quasi-objects
Chapter exercises
4. An auto/autieethnography part 1: Methodological and researcher positionality
Introductory vignette: a multivocal discussion of research
Evocative uses of vignettes and multivocality in autoethnographic accounts
A brief interlude: analytic autoethnography
An evocative and poststructural commitment to openness
Autoethnography concerns and challenges
The slippage between autoethnography as narcissistic and theory of mind
An emplaced concern with relational ethics
Autoethnography as journeying and pragmatic balance
Chapter exercises
4.5. An auto/autieethnography part 1.5: Distributed sociality and post-human disability
Introduction: a brief interlude
Beyond poststructural autoethnography to quasi-object relationality
PhD work, disability support and relational ethics
How does the autistic author emerge?
Revealing the analytic potential in the academic mundane
A concluding multivocal discussion
Chapter exercises
5. An auto/autieethnography part 2: Autoethnographic writing vignettes
Introduction: of writing vignettes and autoethnography
Writing vignette 1: writing in chaos – autism, writing and home care
Discussion: writing as a mundane academic habitus
The consequences of writing in chaos: thinking with care in writing
How do you cope? Future directions
Post-PhD update
Writing vignette 2: the ‘glow’ of academic labour
Back to caring: intellectual structures and identity
Conclusion: reflecting on a sociological imagination
Chapter exercises
6. Affective atmospheres: Perturbations and emplaced affects
Introduction
What is an affective atmosphere?
What can be called an atmosphere? Boundaries and effects
Atmospheric interstices: beyond binaries
Data analysis: the material/spatial organisation of the club
Empirical case 1: sound, Kiss radio and (non)-human atmospheres
Empirical case 2: echolalia, gestural semiosis and Blackadder
Conclusion
Chapter exercises
7. Sensory and disability futures
Introduction
Habitual favourites in policy and practice
Multimedia sensory research
Habitual favourites and social categories
The book as quasi-object
Chapter exercises
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