Neurodiversity & Disability Academic Research

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Neurodiversity Research

--- Neurodiversity Studies 

  • Ahsan, Hamja. Shy Radicals : the Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert. London: Book Works, 2017. Print.
  • Allen, Kala, Autistic and Black (London, 2024)
  • Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H., Chown, N., & Stenning, A. (2020). Neurodiversity studies: A new critical paradigm (Routledge advances in sociology; 285). Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY. [Open Access] 
  • Chapman, Robert. Empire of Normality. (Pluto Press, 2023.) 
  • McGuire, Anne E. “Buying Time: The S/Pace of Advocacy and the Cultural Production of Autism.” Canadian journal of disability studies 2.3 (2013): 98–. Web.
  • McGuire, Anne E., and Rod Michalko. “Minds Between Us: Autism, Mindblindness and the Uncertainty of Communication.” Educational philosophy and theory 43.2 (2011): 162–177. Web.
  • McGuire, Anne. “De-Regulating Disorder: On the Rise of the Spectrum as a Neoliberal Metric of Human Value.” (2017): n. page. Web.
  • McGuire, Anne. War on Autism : on the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. Print.
  • Nerenberg, Jenara. Divergent Mind : Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed for You. New York: HarperOne, 2021. Print.
  • (Neuro)Divergent Textualities: Representations, Readings, Responses, ed. by Jenny Bergenmar, Louise Creechan, and Anna Stenning (London: Bloomsbury).
  • Seymour, Laura. (2024). Copying Not Diagnosing: The Case of Hugh Blair of Borgue, Disability Studies Quarterly 43(2) (2024): Copying not Diagnosing: The Case of Hugh Blair of Borgue | Disability Studies Quarterly (dsq-sds.org)
  • Seymour, Laura. (2022). Shakespearean Echolalia: Autism and Versification in King John. Shakespeare (London, England), 18(3), 335-351.
  • Simpson, Hannah. (2018). Tics in the Theatre: The Quiet Audience, the Relaxed Performance, and the Neurodivergent Spectator. Theatre Topics, 28(3), 227-238.
  • Stenning, Anna, Writing the Many Autisms (London, 2024)
  • Stenning, Anna, & Rosqvist, Hanna Bertilsdotter. (2021). Neurodiversity studies: Mapping out possibilities of a new critical paradigm. Disability & Society, 36(9), 1532-1537. 
  • Wolf-Meyer, Matthew. Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age (Minnesota, 2020).
  • Yergeau, M. Remi. Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (Duke, 2017). 

--- Queer Studies & Neurodivergence/Disability 

  • Coráñez-Bolton, Sony. Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines (Duke, 2023)
  • Ferguson, Roderick A. Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (University of Minnesota, 2004)
  • Muñoz, José Esteban. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (NYU, 1999)
  • Smildges, J. Logan, Crip Negativity (Minnesota, 2023).
  • Smildges, J. Logan, Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence (Minnesota, 2022).
  • Snediker, Michael D., Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment (Minnesota, 2021).
  • Snorton, Riley. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (University of Minnesota, 2017).
  • Walker, Nick. Neuroqueer Heresies : Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities. Fort Worth, Texas: Autonomous Press, 2021. Print.

Disability Research

--- Disability Justice 

  • Aho, Tanja, Liat Ben-Moshe, and Leon J. Hilton. “Mad Futures: Affect/Theory/Violence.” American Quarterly 69, no. 2 (2017): 291–345.
  • Chen, Mel Y., Alison Kafer, Eunjung Kim, and Julie Avril Minich (eds.), Crip Genealogies (Duke, 2023)
  • Erevelles, Nirmala. Disability and Difference in Global Contexts: Enabling a Transformative Body Politic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
  • Fritsch, Kelly, and Anne McGuire. We Move Together. Chico, CA ;: AK Press, 2021. Print.
  • Kafai, Shayda. Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid (Arsenal Pulp, 2021)
  • Kafer, Alison. (2013). Feminist, Queer, Crip. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • Kim, Jina B. (2020). Disability in an Age of Fascism. American Quarterly, 72(1), 265-276.
  • Kim, Jina B., & Schalk, Sami. (2021). Reclaiming the Radical Politics of Self-Care. The South Atlantic Quarterly, 120(2), 325-342.
  • Kim, Jina B. (2017). Toward a Crip-of-Color Critique: Thinking with Minich's 'Enabling Whom?'. Lateral, 6(1), Lateral, 2017, Vol.6 (1).
  • Mills, Mara, and Rebecca Sanchez, eds. Crip Authorship : Disability as Method. New York: New York University Press, 2023. Print.
  • McRuer, Robert. Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (NYU, 2006)
  • Pickens, Therí A. Black Madness :: Mad Blackness (Duke, 2019)
  • Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Arsenal Pulp, 2018)

  • Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi. The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs (Arsenal Pulp, 2022). 

  • Price, Margaret. Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life. (University of Michigan Press, 2011). 

  • Puar, Jasbir K. The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (Duke, 2017).

  • Quayson, Ato. Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation (Columbia, 2007).
  • Quinn, Hannah. “Crip Intimacy: Sockfriends, Sexuality, and ‘Cripped Things’”, Disability and Society (2023).
  • Schalk, Sami. Black Disability Politics (Duke, 2022)

  • Schalk, Sami. Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (Duke, 2018).

  • Schalk, Sami. “Coming to Claim Crip,” Disability Studies Quarterly Vol 33, No 2 (2013).
  • Schalk, Sami. (2017). Critical Disability Studies as Methodology. Lateral, 6(1), Lateral, 2017, Vol.6 (1).
  • Schalk, Sami, & Kim, Jina B. (2020). Integrating Race, Transforming Feminist Disability Studies. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 46(1), 31-55.
  • Sirvent, Roberto, and Amy Reed-Sandoval (eds.). “Disability and the Decolonial Turn: Perspectives from the Americas,” Special issue, Disability and the Global South 6, no. 1 (2019).

This is an evolving list - do get in touch at neurodiverseox@st-annes.ox.ac.uk if you have any suggestions!