The doing and undoing of the “autistic child”: Cutting together and apart interview-based empirical materials

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Frigerio, Alessandra, Benozzo, Angelo, Holmes, Rachel and Runswick-Cole, Katherine (2018) The doing and undoing of the “autistic child”: Cutting together and apart interview-based empirical materials. Qualitative Inquiry, 24 (6). pp. 390-402. ISSN 1077-8004

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Abstract

This article discusses how posthuman and new materialist theories afford us opportunities to rethink the production of the “autistic child,” drawing on a qualitative research project on parenthood in the context of childhood disability in Italy. We will put some Baradian’s key concepts (intra-action, agential cut and cutting together-apart) to work in glancing at the complexities we keep encountering when a mother, Arianna, describes her relationship with her daughter Laura. The aim of this article is twofold: first, to methodologically re-turn the production of the “autistic child,” and second, to rethink and unsettle the dichotomies that constitute some children as “disabled human beings,” abnormal, and undesirable.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	autism,cutting together-apart,interview,new materialism,posthuman,anthropology,social sciences (miscellaneous) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3314
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
Related URLs:	http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?... https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/619478/
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	28 Feb 2019 09:30
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 04:29
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/70041
DOI:	10.1177/1077800417735132

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