Marianthi Kourti
Biographic Data
| ID | 5146464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marianthi Kourti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marianthi |
| FAMILY NAME | Kourti |
| SIGNATURE | KOURTI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1257-2933 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Embrace Difference, Challenge Normativity
Research consistently shows that autistic people are more likely to identify outside of cisgender heterosexuality, highlighting the importance of supporting autistic people beyond neuronormative and heteronormative relationship imperatives. This paper explores autistic adults’ perspectives, using queer and neuroqueer theory, to examine how heteronormativity and neuronormativity operate together to constrain autistic people's intimate lives. It al…
A critical overview of how English health and social care publications represent autistic adults’ intimate lives
Autistic people face more social barriers to, and experience greater anxiety around, intimate relationships than the general population in our majority neurotypical society, leading to increased loneliness and social isolation. National health and social care policies and publications should recognise these inequalities and guide service systems in reducing them. In this paper, we employ a document analysis design to analyse a cross-section of En…
Sensory strangers
Sensory experience is subject to considerable political and normative pressure, often felt, but rarely theorised. Taking as a starting point Simmel’s conceptualisation of the stranger, whose ‘position as a full-fledged member (of society) involves both being outside it and confronting it’, we propose neurodivergence as a form of Simmelian sensory stranger-hood, phenomenologically, spatially, and temporally situated as a tool for critical explorat…
Doing it differently
In the current research climate, in which many autistic and autism communities are increasingly calling for a move towards collaborative forms of research, we consider how a loosely formed epistemological community may serve to challenge ‘business as usual’ in the academy. Mindful of the need to move beyond theory, we use this experience to concretely consider how knowledge about autism and neurotypicality can be meaningfully (co)-produced, and m…
Doing it differently
In the current research climate, in which many autistic and autism communities are increasingly calling for a move towards collaborative forms of research, we consider how a loosely formed epistemological community may serve to challenge ‘business as usual’ in the academy. Mindful of the need to move beyond theory, we use this experience to concretely consider how knowledge about autism and neurotypicality can be meaningfully (co)-produced, and m…
Doing it differently
In the current research climate, in which many autistic and autism communities are increasingly calling for a move towards collaborative forms of research, we consider how a loosely formed epistemological community may serve to challenge ‘business as usual’ in the academy. Mindful of the need to move beyond theory, we use this experience to concretely consider how knowledge about autism and neurotypicality can be meaningfully (co)-produced, and m…
Sensory strangers
Sensory experience is subject to considerable political and normative pressure, often felt, but rarely theorised. Taking as a starting point Simmel’s conceptualisation of the stranger, whose ‘position as a full-fledged member (of society) involves both being outside it and confronting it’, we propose neurodivergence as a form of Simmelian sensory stranger-hood, phenomenologically, spatially, and temporally situated as a tool for critical explorat…
A critical overview of how English health and social care publications represent autistic adults’ intimate lives
Autistic people face more social barriers to, and experience greater anxiety around, intimate relationships than the general population in our majority neurotypical society, leading to increased loneliness and social isolation. National health and social care policies and publications should recognise these inequalities and guide service systems in reducing them. In this paper, we employ a document analysis design to analyse a cross-section of En…
Embrace Difference, Challenge Normativity
Research consistently shows that autistic people are more likely to identify outside of cisgender heterosexuality, highlighting the importance of supporting autistic people beyond neuronormative and heteronormative relationship imperatives. This paper explores autistic adults’ perspectives, using queer and neuroqueer theory, to examine how heteronormativity and neuronormativity operate together to constrain autistic people's intimate lives. It al…
Autism (3 works) · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (2 works) · Autism spectrum disorder (1 work) · Citizen journalism (1 work) · Communication (1 work) · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (1 work) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (1 work) · Developmental psychology (1 work)