The Autism Industrial Complex - Alicia A. Broderick

The Autism Industrial Complex

How Branding, Marketing, and Capital Investment Turned Autism into Big Business
Buch | Softcover
300 Seiten
2022
Myers Education Press (Verlag)
978-1-9755-0185-3 (ISBN)
40,95 inkl. MwSt
Essential reading for a variety of audiences, from healthcare providers to educators to parents. The book is perfect for courses such as Introduction to Critical Autism Studies; Disability Studies; Disability & Rhetoric; Disability & Cultural Studies; Doctoral Seminar in Disability Studies; Cultural Foundations of Disability in Education.
Within capitalism, the Autism Industrial Complex (AIC) produces both autism as commodity and the methods of intervention to deal with it. Comprised of ideological, rhetorical, material, and economic infrastructures, the AIC is not only a variety of businesses and industries that capitalize and profit from it. In the production of autism as commodity, the AIC also produces that commodity's market, its consumers, and its monopoly control of that market through production for consumption of need for, consent to, and legitimacy of interventionist logics. Given this, almost anyone can capitalize on and profit from autism. And within the AIC, autistic people--their very bodies--function as the raw materials from which this industrial complex is built, even as their very identities and selves become unwitting, and often unwilling, products of the AIC. Autism, Inc. is essential reading for a variety of audiences, from healthcare providers to educators to parents.

Perfect for courses such as: Introduction to Critical Autism Studies; Disability Studies--Theory, Policy, Practice; Disability & Rhetoric; Disability & Cultural Studies; Doctoral Seminar in Disability Studies; Cultural Foundations of Disability in Education

Alicia A. Broderick is a Professor of Education at Montclair State University. She is a Disability Studies (DS) scholar and a scholar of Critical Autism Studies (CAS). For the past two decades, she has published critical scholarship on autism, deploying a variety of interdisciplinary conceptual frameworks, including critical discourse analysis, rhetoric, cultural studies, and historically-situated analyses of ideology, metaphor and narrative. Her present analysis synthesizes and reframes much of her extant work by deploying the overarching epistemological and ontological lens of neoliberal capitalism in analyzing the shifting meanings of autism within capitalism over the past 75 years.

Acknowledgments
Foreword – Anne McGuire
Part I: Forging The Autism Industrial Complex: Manufacturing Foundational Commodities (1943–1987)
1. Autism, Inc.: The Autism Industrial Complex
by Alicia A. Broderick and Robin Roscigno
2. Consuming Autism as Social Problem and the Cultural Logic of Intervention
by Alicia A. Broderick and Robin Roscigno
Part II: (Re)Branding and Marketing the AIC: Manufacturing Markets, Consumers, & Consumer Confidence (1987–present)
3. Rhetoric and Neoliberalism: On (Re)Branding and Consuming Hope
4. The Politics of Hope: Autism and "Recovery [to Normalcy]"
5. The Politics of Truth: Deploying Scientism in ABA Rhetoric
6. The Politics of Fear: The Fires that Forged the Economic Apparatus of the AIC
Part III: The Economic Apparatus of the AIC: Incorporation, Legislation, and Capital Investment (1998–present)
7. Intervention, Inc.: Nonprofit Corporations and Venture Capital
8. Prevention, Inc.: The Cultural Logic of Prevention, Basic Research, Hedging Bets, and Perennial (re)Branding
Part IV: Autism and Biocapital: On Precarity and Futurity
9. Autism and Biocapitalist Emergences: Biopolitical Technologies of Control
10. On Being Autistic in Neoliberal Capitalist Ruins: Endemic Precarity and Autistic Futurity
About the Author
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 150 x 226 mm
Gewicht 151 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Neurologie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Bildungstheorie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
ISBN-10 1-9755-0185-3 / 1975501853
ISBN-13 978-1-9755-0185-3 / 9781975501853
Zustand Neuware
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