Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge by Tan, Catherine
Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge by Tan, Catherine

Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge

Winner 2024 Sociology of Disability in Society Outstanding Publication Award, Disability in Society Section, American Sociological Association...
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Author: Catherine Tan
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Language: English
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Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge by Tan, Catherine

Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge

$560.86
Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge by Tan, Catherine

Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge

$560.86
Author: Catherine Tan
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Winner 2024 Sociology of Disability in Society Outstanding Publication Award, Disability in Society Section, American Sociological Association

Movements that take issue with conventional understandings of autism spectrum disorder, a developmental disability, have become increasingly visible. Drawing on more than three years of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with participants, Catherine Tan investigates two autism-focused movements, shedding new light on how members contest expert authority. Examining their separate struggles to gain legitimacy and represent autistic people, she develops a new account of the importance of social movements as spaces for constructing knowledge that aims to challenge dominant frameworks.

Spaces on the Spectrum examines the autistic rights and alternative biomedical movements, which reimagine autism in different and conflicting ways: as a difference to be accepted or as a sickness to treat. Both, however, provide a window into how ideas that conflict with dominant beliefs develop, take hold, and persist. The autistic rights movement is composed primarily of autistic adults who contend that autism is a natural human variation, not a disorder, and advocate for social and cultural inclusion and policy changes. The alternative biomedical movement, in contrast, is dominated by parents and practitioners who believe in the disproven idea that vaccines trigger autism and seek to reverse it with scientifically unsupported treatments. Both movements position themselves in opposition to researchers, professionals, and parents outside their communities. Spaces on the Spectrum offers timely insights into the roles of shared identity and communal networks in movements that question scientific and medical authority.

Author: Catherine Tan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 01/23/2024
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780231206129


Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2025

About the Author
Catherine Tan is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Vassar College.
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