Beyond Autistic Stereotypes

New Perspectives on Identities, Gender, and Experience
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-0-19-888998-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 246 mm

Autism is a rapidly transforming research field. Changing diagnostic criteria, the rise of the neurodiversity movement, and the influence of participatory autism research are key factors contributing to paradigm shifts in understanding and approaches.

Beyond Autistic Stereotypes shares new findings from research spanning the arts and sciences that challenge current autistic stereotypes. It extends our understanding of autistic cognition and communication, autistic identity, relationships between neurodivergence and creativity, and the roles of place, space and sensory issues (a core feature of autistic experience) in shaping autistic subjectivity.

The book brings together a diversity of perspectives and multidisciplinary voices, embracing contributions from autistic scholars, and researchers and practitioners working across a broad range of disciplines, including creative health, cognitive psychology, phenomenology, cognitive ecology, education, ethnography, and healthcare. It also covers a wide range of topics, from diagnostic approaches, sensory and educational environments, and theoretical models of autistic learning and experience to autoethnographic accounts of lived experience, autistic creativity, and creative practices, such as participatory arts initiatives, music therapy, neurophototherapy, and clowning.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herbert, Ruth

Shaughnessy, Nicola

Williams, Emma

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Herbert is a Lecturer in Music Psychology at City St George's, University of London. Her specialisms embrace music and consciousness (ASC, Trance, absorption, dissociation, 4E cognition), creative health, applied and socially engaged participatory arts, the phenomenology of music in daily life, multisensory studies, neurodiversity, ecological approaches to perception, medical humanities. She is the author of Everyday Music Listening (Routledge, 2016 [2011]) and co-Editor of Music and Consciousness 2 (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Nicola Shaughnessy is a Professor of Performance and Co-Director of the Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Kent. Her specialisms include contemporary performance, socially engaged theatre, and creative pedagogy, with a focus on neurodiversity, gender, and mental health. Shaughnessy has led four AHRC-funded projects on autistic identities and is a co-investigator for UKRI awards on adolescent mental health and online misogyny. A consultant on neurodiversity for organizations including The National Theatre and Audible, she co-founded Methuen's Performance and Science series and has published widely on performance, psychology, and creativity.

Emma Williams is a Developmental Psychologist based at the University of Surrey. Her research focuses on qualitative approaches to the identities, mental health, sensory experiences, and self-esteem of autistic girls; arts-based methods in Child and Adolescent Mental Health; and the influence of educational contexts on autistic students. She also studies early play development in young autistic children. Williams has been a co-investigator on several participatory arts projects, including Playing A/Part, an AHRC-funded study exploring autistic girls' identities through creative methods, and CREATE, a UKRI-funded project enhancing adolescent mental health research through collaboration across arts, science, and youth perspectives.