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1 Introduction: Exploring autism, the senses and autoethnography |
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Autism spectrum conditions: categorisation and expanding definitions |
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Sociological imaginations and forming habits |
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Autoethnography as sociological imagination |
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9 | (4) |
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Redefining autism through favourite quasi-objects |
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13 | (2) |
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Notes on research and chapter exercises |
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Conclusion: outline of chapters |
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2 Sensory habits as pragmatic quasi-objects |
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22 | (21) |
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22 | (1) |
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A brief sociological trajectory of the senses |
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23 | (2) |
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Pragmatic habits as mediating senses |
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25 | (2) |
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Habitual favourites as a concept |
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27 | (4) |
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Reassessing sensory sociology caul habitual favourites with autism |
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31 | (2) |
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Michel Serres, the parasite and quasi-objects |
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33 | (3) |
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Habitual favourites as quasi-objects: the sensory autistic manifold |
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36 | (3) |
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39 | (1) |
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39 | (4) |
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3 Habitual favourites: Modulated thresholds and quasi-objects |
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43 | (22) |
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Introduction: an outline of the chapter |
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43 | (1) |
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Factors impacting the relationships to favourites in autism |
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43 | (3) |
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Developing the quasi-object concept |
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46 | (2) |
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Some comments on using an `events'-based analysis |
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48 | (1) |
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Doug: cats, technological quasi-objects and Soylent as parasite |
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49 | (4) |
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Geary: multimodal anxiety relief and social management |
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53 | (5) |
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58 | (3) |
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Conclusion: reformulating parasites and quasi-objects |
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61 | (2) |
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63 | (2) |
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4 An auto/auticethnography part 1: Methodological and researcher positionality |
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65 | (36) |
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Introductory vignette: a multivocal discussion of research |
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65 | (3) |
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Evocative uses of vignettes and muitivocality in autoethnographic accounts |
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68 | (2) |
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A brief interlude: analytic autoethnography |
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70 | (2) |
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An evocative and poststructural commitment to openness |
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72 | (2) |
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Autoethnography concerns and challenges |
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74 | (2) |
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The slippage between autoethnography as narcissistic and theory of mind |
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76 | (5) |
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An emplaced concern with relational ethics |
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81 | (2) |
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Autoethnography as journeying and pragmatic balance |
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83 | (1) |
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84 | (4) |
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4.5 An auto/autieethnography part 1.5: Distributed sociality and post-human disability |
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88 | (1) |
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Introduction: a brief interlude |
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88 | (1) |
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Beyond poststructural autoethnography to quasi-object relationality |
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89 | (3) |
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PhD work, disability support and relational ethics |
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92 | (3) |
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How does the autistic author emerge? |
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95 | (1) |
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Revealing the analytic potential in the academic mundane |
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96 | (2) |
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A concluding multivocal discussion |
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5 An auto/autieethnography part 2: Autoethnogiaphic writing vignettes |
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Introduction: of writing vignettes and autoethnography |
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101 | (1) |
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Writing vignette 1: writing in chaos - autism, writing and I tome care |
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101 | (6) |
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Discussion: writing as a mundane academic habitus |
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107 | (3) |
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The consequences of writing in chaos: thinking with care in writing |
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110 | (5) |
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How do you cope? Future directions |
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115 | (1) |
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116 | (1) |
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Writing vignette 2: the `glow' of academic labour |
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117 | (3) |
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Back to caring: intellectual structures and identity |
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120 | (2) |
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Conclusion: reflecting on a sociological imagination |
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122 | (4) |
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126 | (4) |
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6 Affective atmospheres: Perturbations and emplaced affects |
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130 | (25) |
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What is an affective atmosphere? |
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131 | (3) |
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What can be called an atmosphere? Boundaries and effects |
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134 | (2) |
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Atmospheric interstices: beyond binaries |
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136 | (4) |
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Data analysis: the material/spatial organisation of the club |
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140 | (2) |
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Empirical case 1: sound, Kiss radio and (non)-human atmospheres |
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142 | (5) |
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Empirical case 2: echolalia, gestural semiosis and Blackadder |
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147 | (4) |
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151 | (1) |
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151 | (4) |
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7 Sensory and disability futures |
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155 | (12) |
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155 | (1) |
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Habitual favourites in policy and practice |
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155 | (3) |
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Multimedia sensory research |
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158 | (3) |
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Habitual favourites and social categories |
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161 | (3) |
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164 | (1) |
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164 | (3) |
Index |
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