Autism, "Stigma," Disability
A Shifting Historical Terrain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2227157 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roy Richard Grinker |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | S21 |
| Pages | S55-S67 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/705748 |
| OpenAlex | W2981477278 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 38 |
| References cited | 68 |
Erving Goffman's 1963 foundational discussion of stigma has been both embraced and critiqued in disability studies and other fields.In Goffman's interactional and ahistorical analysis, stigma was presumed to exist as a natural feature of humanity, deflecting attention away from historical analysis.This article, in contrast, argues that stigma-particularly surrounding "mental illness"-is deeply embedded in historically contingent structural conditions of modern capitalism and ideologies of individualism that shape ideals of the modern worker.Specifically, I use the case of autism-and its commodification in the United States-to show how a stigmatized "mental illness" is intertwined with a range of financial interests that come to depend on the continued production of certain diagnoses.For example, an analysis of the "autism industrial complex" in the United States reveals how economic changes set the conditions for a range of practices that promise to reduce stigma; these include special education, activism/advocacy, and selfrepresentation.These occur in the context of a transition toward more flexible employment and the increasing value of technological and artistic skills often associated with neurodiversity.Despite the fact that a capitalist logic continues to define valuations of personhood, families and autistic self-advocates have been empowered in recent years to use a variety of strategies to decouple stigma and illness and resist conventional definitions of autism as a syndrome of deficits
Autism · Capitalism · Commodification · Developmental psychology · Economics · Ideology · Individualism · Mental health · Mental illness · Personhood · Political science · Psychiatry · Sociology · Stigma (botany · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research · Disability Rights and Representation · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Reconciling Goffman and Disability Studies
Neurodiversity in Saudi Arabia
Annual Research Review
The collective mind
Perplexing nearness
Toward a Critical and Comparative Anthropology of Disability
An integrative approach between neurodiversity perspectives and quality of life models for autistic people across the spectrum of support needs
A mixed method examination
A mixed method comparison of stigma toward autism and schizophrenia and effects of person-first versus identity-first language
It means you can’t see all the children’
Autism, Inc
Islamic law perspectives and social experiences on stigma toward disabled people in Indonesia
Beyond ‘bad’ behaviors
Insult to Injury? Women and Mental Disorder in Italian Photography and Visual Culture
The experience of autism from the perspective of autistic adolescents
Rooted in ableism
Between gaining acceptance and avoiding harm
Understanding “Friendship” Among Autistic Adults
Judicial Perspectives on Neurodiversity in Queensland Courts, Tribunals and Commissions
Lessons from lockdown
Perplexing Presentations
You Can’t Go to the Dance Because You Don’t Have a Male Role Model in Your Life”
Reimagining independence
Re(dis)covering Goffman
Searching for Dwelling
Weighing In
From able-bodied soldier to disabled veteran
Invisible Autistic Infrastructure
Making Up Persons
I Identify as Autistic and Am Part of the Community of Individuals Within the Spectrum
"The Grind Never Stops" Mental Health and Expectations of Productivity in the North American University
Identity perplexity, stigma, and social critique
Claiming normal
A continuum of "normal" experience
Work Cannot Save Us but Let's Still Try
Disability Worlds
Disability/Anthropology
An Intersectional Examination of Disability and Race Models in Behavior-Analytic Practice
Hysterical Men
Making Sex
Freak Show
Geographies of Disability
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Inclusion
Disease and Representation
The Psychiatric Team and the Social Definition of Schizophrenia
Autistic autobiography
The Worldwide Prevalence of ADHD
“A Disease Like Any Other”? A Decade of Change in Public Reactions to Schizophrenia, Depression, and Alcohol Dependence
Costs of Autism Spectrum Disorders in the United Kingdom and the United States
Inventing our Selves
The Disability Studies Reader
Advocacy for mental health
Contingent Work
Introduction
A Time to Change Our Minds
Thinking with the Thalamus
Bedlam in mind
Foucault's great confinement
Geographies of Disability
War Neurosis and Cultural Change in England, 1914-22
Shell-shock as a Social Disease
Identity's Architect
Report of the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on Treatment of Gender Identity Disorder
The Social Construction of What
Masculinities in an Industrializing Society
New Approaches to Disability in the Workplace
The black insane in the Cape, 1891-1920
Rethinking the sociology of stigma
Inventing our selves
Psychiatric Power
Madness and Civilization
Museums of Madness
The Anthropology of Globalization
Reverberations
What a Dog Can Do
Between Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman
| Unique citing works | 38 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |