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ERIC Number: EJ1474442
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 15
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0951-8398
EISSN: EISSN-1366-5898
Available Date: 0000-00-00
Lifelines: A Neuroqueer Politics of Non-Arrival in an Undergraduate Disability Studies Classroom
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), v38 n5 p658-672 2025
Fantasies of control, order, efficiency, and "a relatively unilinear notion of historical progress" are enmeshed in the collective imagination of industrialized societies in the Global North. These same ideals uphold settler white supremacy, cisheteropatriarchy, neo-colonialism, anti-Black racism, genocide, ecoism, land theft, and mass incarceration. The current global predicament shows that non-normative lives and alternative ways of living, especially those deemed unproductive to the free market economic system are either disposed of as excess or rebranded and repurposed through the tactical use of exceptionalism (and necropolitics). In this paper, I address and challenge epistemic, cognitive, and material injustice along with mindless consumerism, especially the mindless consumption of knowledge received and reproduced uncritically about bodymind "excess". More specifically, I actively and deliberately complicate fixed and constant expectations and interventions targeting subjects and subjectivities formed around dominant discourses and images of Autism in the USA's popular imagination.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1Department of Educational Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA