This article discusses how posthuman and new materialist theories afford us opportunities to rethink the production of the “autistic child,” drawing on a qualitative research project on parenthood in the context of childhood disability in Italy. We will put some Baradian’s key concepts (intra-action, agential cut and cutting together-apart) to work in glancing at the complexities we keep encountering when a mother, Arianna, describes her relationship with her daughter Laura. The aim of this article is twofold: first, to methodologically re-turn the production of the “autistic child,” and second, to rethink and unsettle the dichotomies that constitute some children as “disabled human beings,” abnormal, and undesirable

Frigerio, A., Benozzo, A., Holmes, R., Runswick-cole, K. (2018). The Doing and Undoing of the “Autistic Child”: Cutting Together and Apart Interview-Based Empirical Materials. QUALITATIVE INQUIRY, 24(6), 390-402 [10.1177/1077800417735132].

The Doing and Undoing of the “Autistic Child”: Cutting Together and Apart Interview-Based Empirical Materials

Frigerio, A
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2018

Abstract

This article discusses how posthuman and new materialist theories afford us opportunities to rethink the production of the “autistic child,” drawing on a qualitative research project on parenthood in the context of childhood disability in Italy. We will put some Baradian’s key concepts (intra-action, agential cut and cutting together-apart) to work in glancing at the complexities we keep encountering when a mother, Arianna, describes her relationship with her daughter Laura. The aim of this article is twofold: first, to methodologically re-turn the production of the “autistic child,” and second, to rethink and unsettle the dichotomies that constitute some children as “disabled human beings,” abnormal, and undesirable
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autism, posthuman, new materialism, cutting together-apart, interview
English
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2018
24
6
390
402
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Frigerio, A., Benozzo, A., Holmes, R., Runswick-cole, K. (2018). The Doing and Undoing of the “Autistic Child”: Cutting Together and Apart Interview-Based Empirical Materials. QUALITATIVE INQUIRY, 24(6), 390-402 [10.1177/1077800417735132].
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