Dis/orientating Autism, Childhood, and Dis/ability: Developing Social Theory for Disabled Childhoods

Acknowledgements
Preface
	Book Overview: Stories as Both Process and Product
	A story of a project finding its place
	The Gaze and Dis/orientation in the Book
Contents
List of Figures
1: Contextualising the Terrains
	A Guide for Traversing the Terrains
	Route A to B: The History of Autism and Childhood
	Returning to the Start and Taking the Scenic Route
	The Scenic Route: A Wondering and Wandering through the Terrains of Autism and Childhood
	Terrains of Autistic Scholarship
	References
2: Introducing a Theoretical Travel Guide
	The Making of the Child through the Technology of Schooling
	Psychologisation, Pathologisation and Familialisation
	Neoliberal Technology of Self-Governance: Neuroscientism
	Autism Is White. Autism Is Male. Autism Is Straight
	Language
	Autism Advocacy in North America
	Parents’ Literature: A Specific Terrain
	References
3: Theorising Dis/orientation
	Disability and the Human
	A Story to Introduce the Dis/child
	Towards Theorising Dis/orientation
	An Aside: Mums on 3rd of July
	References
4: An Auto/ethnographic Story of Working Through Method/ology
	‘Talking’
	Recruitment
	Introducing the Families
		The Connors
		The Goodwins
		The Collective
	‘Being’
	‘Becoming’: Creative Analytic Practice
	Moving Forward: Between Methodology and Ethics
	References
5: The Ethics of Advocacy and Consent
	Consent and Advocacy
	Consent as Embodied and Ongoing
	Joe’s Reminder of Risk
	Advocating Otherwise
	Stories Left Untold
	Moving Forward: Ethics in Analysis/Ethical Analysis
	References
6: Talking: The Rhizomes of Everyday Autism
	More Than a Single Orientation, a Rhizome
	Talking of Autism as Brain-Centred
	Talking of Autism as Emotional Labour
	Talking of Autism as a Mother’s Work
	A (Temporary) New Entryway to Rhizome: Intervention
	Collective Talk of Autism: Meeting Producing Autism
	Talking of Autism as Biosocial
	References
7: Being with/in Bodies
	Being in Education
	The Dis/child in Education
	Policy and the Dis/child
	Being and Ways of Knowing
	Disembodied Play
	Embodied Play: Den Building
	Dis/orientating Play
	Sharing Through Embodiment
	A Nursery Trip: Slipping Back to Disembodiment
	Window-Licking
	Challenging Behaviour and Imagined Futures
	Dis/orientating Window-Licking
	References
8: Becoming: Towards a Critical Analysis of Autism, Childhood and Dis/ability
	Biting in the Classroom
	Collapsing Emotion into Behaviour: Autism and Challenging Behaviour
	Dis/Orientating Emotion through Autism
	Autism Marking Bodies
	Inhuman Emotions (Impossible Emotions)
	Dis/Orientating: Biting Otherwise
	Saturday Morning Ballet Class
	What Is Done by Bodies
	Dis/Orientating: Contesting a Knowable Body
	References
9: Take-home Messages from a Dis/orientated Terrain
	Take-home Message 1: A New Research Agenda
		Non-pathologising Autism Research
		Autism Research and Childhood
		Autism Research as Embodied
	Take-home Message 2: A New Agenda for Education
		For Educators of Autism
		For Education Policy and Practice
	The End
	Postcards from Neitherherenorthere (Figs. 9.1, 9.2, 9.3 and 9.4)
	References
Index