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The autism industrial complex : how branding, marketing, and capital investment turned autism into big business / by Alicia A. Broderick.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Gorham, Maine : Myers Education Press, [2022]Description: xviii, 299 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1975501853
  • 9781975501853
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4361685882 23
LOC classification:
  • RC553.A88
Contents:
Autism, Inc.: The Autism Industrial Complex / by Alicia A. Broderick and Robin Roscigno -- Consuming Autism as Social Problem and the Cultural Logic of Intervention / by Alicia A. Broderick and Robin Roscigno -- Rhetoric and Neoliberalism: On (Re)Branding and Consuming Hope -- The Politics of Hope: Autism and 'Recovery [to Normalcy]' -- The Politics of Truth: Deploying Scientism in ABA Rhetoric -- The Politics of Fear: The Fires that Forged the Economic Apparatus of the AIC -- Intervention, Inc.: Nonprofit Corporations and Venture Capital -- Prevention, Inc.: The Cultural Logic of Prevention, Basic Research, Hedging Bets, and Perennial (re)Branding -- Autism and Biocapitalist Emergences: Biopolitical Technologies of Control -- On Being Autistic in Neoliberal Capitalist Ruins: Endemic Precarity and Autistic Futurity.
Foreword / Anne McGuire -- Part One. Forging the autism industrial complex: manufacturing foundational commodities (1943-1987) -- Part Two. (Re)branding and marketing the AIC: manufacturing markets, consumers & consumer confidence (1987-present) -- Part Three. The economic apparatus of the AIC: incorporation, legislation, and capital investment (1998-present) -- Part Four. Autism and biocapital: on precarity and futurity.
Summary: Autism, a concept that barely existed 75 years ago, currently feeds multiple, multi-billion-dollar-a-year, global industries. In this work, the author analyzes how we got from the 11 children first identified by Leo Kanner in 1943 as "autistic" to the billion dollar autism industries that are booming today. Broderick argues that, within the Autism Industrial Compex (AIC), almost anyone can capitalize on autism, and she shows us how.
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Autism, Inc.: The Autism Industrial Complex / by Alicia A. Broderick and Robin Roscigno -- Consuming Autism as Social Problem and the Cultural Logic of Intervention / by Alicia A. Broderick and Robin Roscigno -- Rhetoric and Neoliberalism: On (Re)Branding and Consuming Hope -- The Politics of Hope: Autism and 'Recovery [to Normalcy]' -- The Politics of Truth: Deploying Scientism in ABA Rhetoric -- The Politics of Fear: The Fires that Forged the Economic Apparatus of the AIC -- Intervention, Inc.: Nonprofit Corporations and Venture Capital -- Prevention, Inc.: The Cultural Logic of Prevention, Basic Research, Hedging Bets, and Perennial (re)Branding -- Autism and Biocapitalist Emergences: Biopolitical Technologies of Control -- On Being Autistic in Neoliberal Capitalist Ruins: Endemic Precarity and Autistic Futurity.

Foreword / Anne McGuire -- Part One. Forging the autism industrial complex: manufacturing foundational commodities (1943-1987) -- Part Two. (Re)branding and marketing the AIC: manufacturing markets, consumers & consumer confidence (1987-present) -- Part Three. The economic apparatus of the AIC: incorporation, legislation, and capital investment (1998-present) -- Part Four. Autism and biocapital: on precarity and futurity.

Autism, a concept that barely existed 75 years ago, currently feeds multiple, multi-billion-dollar-a-year, global industries. In this work, the author analyzes how we got from the 11 children first identified by Leo Kanner in 1943 as "autistic" to the billion dollar autism industries that are booming today. Broderick argues that, within the Autism Industrial Compex (AIC), almost anyone can capitalize on autism, and she shows us how.

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