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Neuroqueer heresies : notes on the neurodiversity paradigm, autistic empowerment, and postnormal possibilities / Nick Walker

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Fort Worth, TX : Autonomous Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 193 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781945955266
  • 1945955260
Other title:
  • Notes on the neurodiversity paradigm, autistic empowerment, and postnormal possibilities
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Contents:
What's in this book, and how it came to be -- Part I: The neurodiversity paradigm. The story behind "Throw away the master's tools" -- Throw away the master's tools: liberating ourselves from the pathology paradigm -- Comments on "Throw away the master's tools" -- Neurodiversity: some basic terms & definitions -- Defining neurodiversity -- Defining neurotypicality & neurodivergence -- Neurodivergence & disability -- Reflections on neurocosmopolitanism -- Part II: Autistic empowerment. The story behind "What is autism?" -- What is autism? -- Autism and social trauma -- Person-first language is the language of autistiphobic bigots -- On the practice of stimming -- The story behind "This is autism" -- This is autism -- Comments on "This is autism" -- For parents of autistic children -- Autism and the pathology paradigm -- Making the shift to the neurodiversity paradigm -- The story behind "Neurotypical psychotheraptists & autistic clients" -- Neurotypical psychotherapists & autistic clients -- Guiding principles for a course on autism -- Part III: Postnormal possibilities. Neuroqueer: an introduction. -- Comments on "neuroqueer: an introduction" -- A horizon of possibility: some notes on neuroqueer theory -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: "The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on human neurodiversity. Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade's worth of Dr. Walker's most influential writings, along with new commentary by the author and new material on her radical conceptualization of Neuroqueer Theory. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the foundations, terminology, implications, and leading edges of the emerging neurodiversity paradigm." -- Provided by the Publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on human neurodiversity.

Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade's worth of Dr. Walker's most influential writings, along with new commentary by the author and new material on her radical conceptualization of Neuroqueer Theory.

This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the foundations, terminology, implications, and leading edges of the emerging neurodiversity paradigm.


"Weird books for weird people" --Title page.

What's in this book, and how it came to be -- Part I: The neurodiversity paradigm. The story behind "Throw away the master's tools" -- Throw away the master's tools: liberating ourselves from the pathology paradigm -- Comments on "Throw away the master's tools" -- Neurodiversity: some basic terms & definitions -- Defining neurodiversity -- Defining neurotypicality & neurodivergence -- Neurodivergence & disability -- Reflections on neurocosmopolitanism -- Part II: Autistic empowerment. The story behind "What is autism?" -- What is autism? -- Autism and social trauma -- Person-first language is the language of autistiphobic bigots -- On the practice of stimming -- The story behind "This is autism" -- This is autism -- Comments on "This is autism" -- For parents of autistic children -- Autism and the pathology paradigm -- Making the shift to the neurodiversity paradigm -- The story behind "Neurotypical psychotheraptists & autistic clients" -- Neurotypical psychotherapists & autistic clients -- Guiding principles for a course on autism -- Part III: Postnormal possibilities. Neuroqueer: an introduction. -- Comments on "neuroqueer: an introduction" -- A horizon of possibility: some notes on neuroqueer theory -- Acknowledgments.

"The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on human neurodiversity. Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade's worth of Dr. Walker's most influential writings, along with new commentary by the author and new material on her radical conceptualization of Neuroqueer Theory. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the foundations, terminology, implications, and leading edges of the emerging neurodiversity paradigm." -- Provided by the Publisher.

"Nick Walker is a queer, transgender, flamingly autistic writer and educator best known for her foundational work on the neurodiversity paradigm, her development of the term neuroqueer and the concept of neuroqueering, and her contributions to fostering the emergent genre of neuroqueer speculative fiction. She is a professor of psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies, and senior instructor at the Aiki Arts Center in Berkeley"--Page [4].

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