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Dates and Readings

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Here you can find the details of the meetings, the readings and the links for registration (scroll down for past meetings and readings). If you cannot get hold of a copy of the text, please contact neurodiversityrg AT gmail DOT com. 

 

  • Note 03/2020: until further notice we will meet online; send an email for details.

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COMING MEETING​​​​​

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​Meeting 15: 16 October 2020, 3-5pm (UK time)

  • Topic: Fiction

  • Readings:

    • Whitehead, Colson (1999). The Intuitionist. Available on e.g. The Book Depository (here) 

    • Martinez Benedi, Pilar. (2019). "Where Racial Meets Neuro Diversity: Pondering “Who’s We” in Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist". Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 60(2), 179-190. [paywall available here]

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FUTURE MEETINGS

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Meeting 16: 20 November 2020, 3-5pm (UK time)

  • Topic: Disabled capital

  • Readings: Berezin, Jared David. (2014). "Disabled Capital: A Narrative of Attention Deficit Disorder in the Classroom Through the Lens of Bourdieu’s Capital". Disability Studies Quarterly, 34(4). Available at http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3793/3785 

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Meeting 17: 18 December 2020, 3-5pm (UK time)

  • Topic: Distress & bodymind

  • Readings:

    • Price, Margaret. (2015). "The bodymind problem and the possibilities of pain". Hypatia, 30(1), 268-284. [available here, no paywall]

    • Website: Recovery in the bin? https://recoveryinthebin.org

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Meeting 18: 15 January 2020, 3-5pm (UK time)

  • Topic: Neurodiversity studies

  • Readings:

    • Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Hanna, Chown, Nick, & Stenning, Anna. (2020). "Introduction". In: Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Nick Chown & Anna Stenning (Eds), Neurodiversity: A new critical paradigm (pp.1-11): Routledge. [paywall available here] 

    • Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Hanna, Stenning, Anna, & Chown, Nick. (2020). "Neurodiversity studies: Proposing a new field of inquiry". In: Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Nick Chown & Anna Stenning (Eds), Neurodiversity: A new critical paradigm (pp.226-229): Routledge. [paywall available here]

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Meeting 19: 19 February 2020, 3-5pm (UK time)

  • Topic: TBC

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Meeting 20: 19 March 2020, 3-5pm (UK time)

  • Topic: TBC

  • Readings:TBC

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Meeting 21: 16 April 2020, 3-5pm (UK time)

  • Topic: TBC

  • Readings:TBC

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Meeting 22: 21 May, 3-5pm (UK time)

  • Topic: TBC

  • Readings:TBC

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PAST MEETINGS

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Meeting 1: 19 July 2019

  • Topic: Introducing neurodiversity

  • Readings:

    • Graby, Steve. (2015). “Neurodiversity: bridging the gap between the disabled people’s movement and the mental health system survivors’ movement?”. In: Helen Spandler, Jill Anderson & Bob Sapey (Eds), Madness, distress and the politics of disablement (pp.231-244): Policy Press. [available here]

    • McWade, Brigit, Milton, Damian, & Beresford, Peter. (2015). “Mad studies and neurodiversity: A dialogue”. Disability & Society, 30(2), 305-309. [available here]

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Meeting 2: 16 August 2019

  • Topic: Neurodiversity and intersectionality theory

  • Readings:

    • Strand, Lauren Rose. (2017). “Charting relations between intersectionality theory and the neurodiversity paradigm”. Disability Studies Quarterly, 37(2). [available here]

    • Erevelles, N. & Minear, A. (2010). "Unspeakable offenses: Untangling race and disability discourses of intersectionality." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 4(2), 127-146. [available here]

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Meeting 3: 20 September 2019

  • Topic: Education

  • Reading:

    • Parekh, Gillian, Brown, Robert S, & Robson, Karen. (2018). "The Social Construction of Giftedness: The Intersectional Relationship Between Whiteness, Economic Privilege, and the Identification of Gifted". Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 7(2), 1-32. [available here]

    • Optional extra: Manning, Erin. (2018). "Me Lo Dijo un Pajarito. Neurodiversity, Black Life, and the University as We Know It". Social Text, 36(3 (136)), 1-24. 

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​​​Meeting 4: 18 October 2019

  • Topic: Gender

  • Readings:

    • Winter, Helen, Moncrieff, Joanna, & Speed, Ewen. (2015). "'Because you’re worth it': A discourse analysis of the gendered rhetoric of the ADHD woman". Qualitative Research in Psychology, 12(4), 415-434.​ [available here]

    • Ng, Isla. (2017). "The Digitization of Neurodiversity: Real Cyborgs and Virtual Bodies". Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, 38(2), 160-170. [available here]

    • Rozsa, Matthew. (2017, 15/03). "LISTEN: Black, female and autistic — hiding in plain sight. Salon talks to Morénike Giwa-Onaiwu of the Autism Women’s Network about race, gender and the spectrum". [interview available here]

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Meeting 5: 22 November 2019

  • Topic: Race

  • Reading: 

    • Annamma, Subini Ancy, Connor, David, & Ferri, Beth. (2013). "Dis/ability critical race studies (DisCrit): Theorizing at the intersections of race and dis/ability". Race, Ethnicity and Education, 16(1), 1-31.​ [available here]

    • Onaiwu, Morénike Giwa (2017). "Preface: Autistics of Color: We Exist... We Matter", In: Brown, Lydia XZ, Ashkenazy, E, & Onaiwu, Morénike Giwa. (Eds). All the weight of our dreams: On living racialized autism (pp.TBC). DragonBee Press.

    • Brown, Lydia X.Z. (2014). "Why the Term ‘Psychopath’ is Racist and Ableist", Available at: http://www.bgdblog.org/2014/01/racist-ableist-use-term-psychopath/ 

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Meeting 6: 17 January 2020

  • Topic: Environment

  • Readings:

    • Gibbons, S. (2017). "Neurological diversity and environmental (in)justice: The ecological other in popular and journalist representations of autism." In S. J. Ray & J. Sibara (Eds.), Disability studies and the environmental humanities: Toward an eco-crip theory (pp. 531-551). London: University of Nebraska Press. 

    • Kafer, A. (2013). "Bodies of nature: The environmental politics of disability," Feminist, queer, crip (pp. 129-148): Indiana University Press.

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Meeting 7: 21 February 2020

  • Topic: Queer

  • Reading: McRuer, Robert, & Wilkerson, Abby L. (2003). "Introduction: Special issue 'Desiring disability: Queer theory meets disability studies'." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 9(1-2), 1-24. [available here]

  • Blog post: Walker, Nick. (2015, 02/05). "Neuroqueer: An Introduction." Neurocosmopolitanism. Available at: http://neurocosmopolitanism.com/neuroqueer-an-introduction/.

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Meeting 8: 20 March 2020

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Meeting 9: 17 April 2020

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Meeting 10: 15 May 2020

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Meeting 11: 19 June 2020

  • Topic: Normativity

  • Readings: 

    • Freedman, Justin E., & Honkasilta, Juho M. (2017). "Dictating the boundaries of ab/normality: a critical discourse analysis of the diagnostic criteria for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and hyperkinetic disorder". Disability & Society, 32(4), 565-588.​ [open access version available here]

    • Huijg, Dieuwertje Dyi. (2020). "Neuronormativity in theorising agency: An argument for a critical neurodiversity approach". In: Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Nick Chown & Anna Stenning (Eds), Neurodiversity: A New Critical Paradigm (pp.213-217): Routledge. [paywall available here]

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Meeting 12: 17 July 2020

  • Topic: Gender

  • Readings: 

    • Shapira, Shahar, & Granek, Leeat. (2019). "Negotiating psychiatric cisgenderism-ableism in the transgender-autism nexus". Feminism & Psychology, 29(4), 494-513. [paywall available here]

    • Davidson, Joyce, & Tamas, Sophie. (2016). "Autism and the ghost of gender". Emotion, Space and Society, 19, 59–65. [paywall available here]

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Meeting 13: 21 August 2020

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Meeting 14: 18 September 2020

  • Topic: Saneism

  • Readings: Wolframe, PhebeAnn Marjory. (2012). "The madwoman in the academy, or, revealing the invisible straightjacket: Theorizing and teaching saneism and sane privilege". Disability Studies Quarterly, 33(1). Available at https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3425/3200

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