The "rendez-vous manqués" of Francophone and Anglophone Disability Studies: the case of autism in cross-cultural context
The "rendez-vous manqués" of Francophone and Anglophone Disability Studies: the case of autism in cross-cultural context
Autism has been the subject of enormous interest across a wide range of disciplines, across science, social science and cultural study in the last two decades. Metaphors of autism have increasingly circulated in popular cultural forms, from mainstream film and bestseller fiction, to memoir and journalism. But this has been an Anglophone phenomenon first and foremost. This article examines the nature of this interest and the frames, both cultural and clinical, through which autisms plural have been constructed since the mid-twentieth century. The context in France is strikingly different. Disability Studies is a strong, multidisciplinary formation in the UK but not in France, despite important work being conducted in the Francophone context. At the same time, psychiatry has been dominated by psychoanalysis with particular consequences for autism. The current battle and crisis in France over autism services, for both children and adults, requires much greater international attention. The need for cross-cultural exchange between France and Britain in particular and interdisciplinary research in disability scholarship is crucial to this.
disability studies, autism, intellectul disability, psychoanalysis, le mur, cross-cultural research, cultural representations of autism
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Orchard, Vivienne
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Orchard, Vivienne
887b56d5-eda6-4583-ba2e-709de2ccff3a
Orchard, Vivienne
(2013)
The "rendez-vous manqués" of Francophone and Anglophone Disability Studies: the case of autism in cross-cultural context.
Synergies Royaume-Uni et Irlande, 6, .
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Autism has been the subject of enormous interest across a wide range of disciplines, across science, social science and cultural study in the last two decades. Metaphors of autism have increasingly circulated in popular cultural forms, from mainstream film and bestseller fiction, to memoir and journalism. But this has been an Anglophone phenomenon first and foremost. This article examines the nature of this interest and the frames, both cultural and clinical, through which autisms plural have been constructed since the mid-twentieth century. The context in France is strikingly different. Disability Studies is a strong, multidisciplinary formation in the UK but not in France, despite important work being conducted in the Francophone context. At the same time, psychiatry has been dominated by psychoanalysis with particular consequences for autism. The current battle and crisis in France over autism services, for both children and adults, requires much greater international attention. The need for cross-cultural exchange between France and Britain in particular and interdisciplinary research in disability scholarship is crucial to this.
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Accepted/In Press date: 2013
Keywords:
disability studies, autism, intellectul disability, psychoanalysis, le mur, cross-cultural research, cultural representations of autism
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Modern Languages and Linguistics
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/345860
ISSN: 1961-9464
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