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- Bergenmar, Jenny, et al.
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Autism and the Question of the Human
- 2015
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Ingår i: Literature and medicine. - : Johns Hopkins University Press. - 0278-9671 .- 1080-6571. ; 33:1, s. 202-221
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article explores how normative notions of emotions and interaction are active in constructions of the categories of “human” and “animal” in different discourses about autism: scientific and autobiographical. In the scientific discourse of autistic emotionality, a deficit perspective of autism is central. The general affective deficit discourse relies on normative discursive notions of “humanity” or “human emotionality.” Thus, neurotypicals are produced as real “humans” and neurotypical emotionality as “normal” human emotionality. This human normativity is challenged in the Swedish autobiographical texts by Gunilla Gerland (b. 1963), Iris Johansson (b. 1945) and Immanuel Brändemo (b. 1980). Along with American authors of autobiographies about autism, such as Temple Grandin’s Thinking in Pictures (1995) and Dawn Prince-Hughes’ Songs of the Gorilla Nation (2004) they destabilize the categories of “human” and “animal” by identifying with nonhuman animals, describing themselves as such, or feeling disqualified as real humans
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- Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna, 1976-
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A special kind of married men : Notions of marriage and married men in the Swedish gay press 1954-1986
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Historical Sociology. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0952-1909 .- 1467-6443. ; 25:1, s. 106-125
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There has long been ambivalence in the LGBT movement and related research as to the meaning of gay identity in relation to marriage. The article explores changing homonormative discourses of marriage and married men within the Swedish gay press from the mid 1950s to the mid 1980s. Expressions of the changes are a shift in language and in views of extramarital relationships, openness, and gay male identity. As a result of the shift, “married men,” including both “married homosexuals” and “bisexuals,” came to be distinguished from “gays.”
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- Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna, 1976-, et al.
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Adaption or recognition of the autistic subject? - reimagining an autistic work life : deconstructing the notion of ‘real jobs’ within the Swedish neurodiverse movement
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation. - 1052-2263 .- 1878-6316. ; 37:3, s. 203-212
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Several researchers stress the importance of listening to autistic adults’ own experiences of work and related issues.This paper critically explores an ambivalent discourse of empowerment using notions of employment and work life in the Swedishautistic self-advocacy movement. The discourse analysis is based on articles from the Swedish autistic self-advocacy magazineEmpowerment. In the data, three key themes linked to the notion of work are identified: alternative meanings of a “real job”,formulations of work-related problems, and solutions to these problems. We identify two storylines. The first, more dominantone, we call the recreated norm storyline. This storyline, in line with an individual/medical perspective on autism as deficit,represents autism as causing people with autism to have difficulties finding and keeping jobs in the open labour market and asentailing employment support. The second, counter narrative we call the challenged norm storyline. In line with the social modelof disability, it focuses on structural barriers and discrimination against people with autism on the labour market.
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- Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna, 1976-
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Becoming an ‘Autistic Couple’ : Narratives of Sexuality and Couplehood Within the Swedish Autistic Self-advocacy
- 2014
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Ingår i: Sexuality and disability. - : Springer. - 0146-1044 .- 1573-6717. ; 32:3, s. 351-363
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research on sexuality and autism is dominated by a sexually deficit view of autism. According to this view, people with autism are considered different from neurotypicals and in need of sexual education that is specially adapted to the social impairments of people with autism. Perspectives on sexuality, couplehood, and autism are gradually changing, and this is partly because of alternative views on autism expressed and advocated within autistic self-advocacy movements. The present paper explores discourses within the Swedish autistic self-advocacy movement of an ‘autistic’ sexuality and couplehood (sexuality and couplehood on people with autism’s own terms). The analysis is based on articles in a Swedish magazine, Empowerment, published between 2002 and 2009 that was produced by and aimed at adults with autism.
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- Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna, 1976-, et al.
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Being a Responsible Violent Girl? : Exploring Female Violence, Self-management, and ADHD
- 2018
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Ingår i: Girlhood Studies. - : Berghahn Books. - 1938-8209 .- 1938-8322. ; 11:2, s. 111-126
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we explore how young women in Sweden negotiate their gendered subject positions in relation to psychiatric diagnoses, particularly Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and the meanings of their own violent acts. The data consists of transcripts of face-to-face interviews with young women who have experienced using aggressive and violent acts. Given that the analysis is informed by ideas developed in discursive psychology, we identified the centrality of the concepts of responsibility and self-management. In this study responsibility is connected to gendered notions of passivity and activity. What we call the ordinary girl is neither too active nor too passive, and the extraordinary girl is either too active or too passive in the managing of herself. Similar to those of a troublesome past, the narratives of ADHD enable the understanding of an intelligible violent self, and therefore make female externalized violence what we describe as narrative-able.
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- Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna, 1976-, et al.
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Being, Knowing, and Doing : Importing Theoretical Toolboxes for Autism Studies
- 2022
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Ingår i: Autism in Adulthood. - : Mary Ann Liebert. - 2573-9581 .- 2573-959X. ; 5:1, s. 15-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article was to think with and elaborate on theories developed outside of autism research and the autistic community, and through this support the production of new autistic-led theories: theories and concepts based on autistic people's own embodied experiences and the social worlds we inhabit. The article consists of three different sections all of part of the overall umbrella, Being, knowing, and doing: Importing theoretical toolboxes for autism studies. In each section, we import useful concepts from elsewhere and tailor them to autism studies. Throughout, we mingle our own autoethnographic accounts and shared discourse in relation to research accounts and theories. Illustrating being, we explore and discuss the possibilities of critical realism in autism studies. Illustrating knowing, we explore and discuss the possibilities of standpoint theory in autism studies. Finally, illustrating doing, we explore and discuss the possibilities of neurocosmopolitics including epistemic (in)justice in autism studies. Our proposal here is for an epistemic shift toward neurodiverse collaboration. We are inviting nonautistic people to work with, not on, us, aiming at to make autism research more ethical, breaking down bureaucratic structures, and questioning poor theory and shoddy methodology. Acknowledging intersecting axes of oppression in which an individual seeks to renegotiate and reimagine what it means to belong also means to understand what needs changing in society, as it is and how we might do things differently. Community brief Why is this topic importantPeople are starting to realize that good autism research should include autistic people (as researchers, participants, co-designers, for example), which means working in neurodiverse teams (teams that include autistic and non-autistic people). So far, a lot of ideas that researchers have had about autistic people have said that they (we) are impaired, which is hurtful and can make it hard to work together. If we are going to create better research, and better spaces to do research in, we need to find new ideas and ways to work. It is important that these new ideas are based on how autistic people see themselves and the world around them (us). What is the purpose of this article?In this article, we (a group of neurodivergent researchers) look at how we can apply ideas about how knowledge is made, how we use knowledge, and how knowledge impacts people, to creating better autism research. We use ideas from philosophy and think about how they can help us to share our experiences with each other. What do the authors suggest?We start by exploring how a theory called 'critical realism' can be used to understand differing autistic experiences, by taking into account how our identities and experiences are shaped by different social environments and affect we think about the world. Next we apply standpoint theory, which looks at the importance of acknowledging the impact of a researchers own identity in research. Finally, we explore 'neurocosmopolitanism', which hopes for a future where our differences can be celebrated and accepted. We also think about 'epistemic injustice', where research that is done 'on' instead of 'with' leads to inaccurate or harmful knowledge about us. We argue that by applying ideas such as these to autism studies, we can create spaces where fair and just autism research is created. We argue that these ideas will help both autistic and non-autistic researchers to understand each other better, because they are based on what it is like to be autistic, and not what being autistic looks like to non-autistic people. What do the authors think should happen in the future?The authors think that more researchers should think about what they say about autistic people. Autistic people should be recognized as the people with the most knowledge about what it is like to be autistic. We think that this will create a kinder way of working for both autistic and non-autistic people and research will be more useful and ethical. How will this study help autistic people now and in future?This research will help autistic people in two ways. First, it will make sure that autistic people's ideas and experiences will be taken more seriously by non-autistic colleagues. Second, it will lead to better autism research, benefitting autistic people who are not just researchers. This is because the ideas will be more closely related to the experiences of autistic people, instead of outside interpretations of what it is like to be autistic.
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- Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna, 1976-, et al.
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Cutting our own keys : New possibilities of neurodivergent storying in research
- 2023
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Ingår i: Autism. - : Sage Publications. - 1362-3613 .- 1461-7005. ; 27:5, s. 1235-1244
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A lot of people who do research are also neurodivergent (such as being autistic or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), but neurodivergent people do not always feel welcome in research spaces which are often shaped around neurotypical people. Some neurotypical researchers lack confidence in talking to neurodivergent people, and others feel like neurodivergent people might not be able to do good research about other people who are like them without being biased. We think it is important that all researchers are able to work well together, regardless of whether they are neurotypical, autistic, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (or any other neurotype) – in truly ‘neurodiverse’ teams. In this article we talk about how to create better spaces for all researchers, where we feel valued for who we are and take each others’ needs into account. We do this using some approaches from other areas of research and talking about how they relate to our personal experiences of being neurodivergent researchers with our own personal stories. This article adds to a growing work on how we can work with people who are different from us, in more respectful and kind ways.
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