The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Autism Studies

This handbook provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of  Critical Autism Studies and explores the different kinds of knowledges  and their articulations, similarities, and differences across cultural  contexts and key tensions within this subdiscipline.
Critical Autism  Studies is a developing area occupying an exciting space of development  within learning and teaching in higher education. It has a strong  trajectory within the autistic academic and advocate community in  resistance and response to the persistence of autism retaining an  identity as a genetic disorder of the brain.
Divided into four parts
• Conceptualising autism
• Autistic identity
• Community and culture
• Practice
and  comprising 24 newly commissioned chapters written by academics and  activists, it explores areas of education, Critical Race Theory,  domestic violence and abuse, sexuality, biopolitics, health, and social  care practices.
It will be of interest to all scholars and students  of disability studies, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies,  education, health, social care, and political science.