Autism in Translation

An Intercultural Conversation on Autism Spectrum Conditions

Elizabeth Fein, Clarice Rios (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XVIII, 304 Seiten

2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-93292-7 (ISBN)

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Autism is a complex phenomenon that is both individual and social. Showing both robust similarities and intriguing differences across cultural contexts, the autism spectrum raises innumerable questions about self, subjectivity, and society in a globalized world. Yet it is often misrepresented as a problem of broken bodies and disordered brains. So, in 2015, a group of interdisciplinary scholars gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for an intellectual experiment: a workshop that joined approaches from psychological anthropology to the South American tradition of Collective Health in order to consider autism within social, historical, and political settings. This book is the product of the ongoing conversation emerging from this event. It contains a series of comparative histories of autism policy in Italy, Brazil, and the United States; focuses on issues of voice, narrative, and representation in autism; and examines how the concept of autism shapes both individual lives and broader social and economic systems.

Featuring contributions from:

Michael Bakan
Benilton Bezerra
Pamela Block
M. Ariel Cascio
Jurandir Freire Costa
Bárbara Costa Andrada
Cassandra Evans
Elizabeth Fein
Clara Feldman
Roy Richard Grinker
Rossano Lima
Francisco Ortega
Dawn Prince-Hughes
Clarice Rios
Laura Sterponi
Thomas S. Weisner
Enrico Valtellina

Elizabeth Fein, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, USA. Dr. Fein is a psychological anthropologist and licensed clinical psychologist who uses clinical ethnography to explore the intersections of culture and neurodevelopmental difference. Clarice Rios, Ph.D., is Lecturer in Social Psychology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. A psychological anthropologist, her current research explores the biopolitics of autism treatment within the Brazilian Unified Health System.

1. Autism in Brazil and the United States.- 2. Challenges to Psychiatric Reform: Autism in Italy and Brazil.- 3. Commentary.- 4. Music and Autism, Representation and Re-presentation: An Ethnomusicological Perspective.- 5. Compelling Structures: Autism as a Mode of Engagement.- 6. Autism and First Person Accounts: The Cognitive Problem.- 7. Commentary.- 8. Expert On Your Own Child, Expert On Your Own World - Reinventing Autism Expertise(s).- 9. AS: Classification, Interpellation.- 10. Who Owns Autism?: Economics, Fetishism, and Stakeholders.- 11. Commentary.- 12. Culture, Autism and Psychological Anthropology.- 13. Commentary.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Culture, Mind, and Society
Zusatzinfo	XVIII, 304 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	539 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
Schlagworte	Asperger's Syndrome • Asperger’s Syndrome • Autism • autism spectrum disorders • Collective Health • global mental health • Psychological Anthropology
ISBN-10	3-319-93292-6 / 3319932926
ISBN-13	978-3-319-93292-7 / 9783319932927
Zustand	Neuware