E-grāmata: Sensory Sociology of Autism: Habitual Favourites [Taylor & Francis e-book]

Acknowledgements;
Chapter 1 - Introduction: Exploring Autism, The Senses
and Autoethnography; A Sensory Beginning; Autism Spectrum Conditions
Categorisation and Expanding Definitions; Sociological Imaginations and
Forming Habits; Autoethnography as Sociological Imagination; Redefining
Autism Through Favourite Quasi-Objects; Notes on Research and
Chapter
Exercises; Conclusion - Outline of
Chapters; Bibliography;
Chapter 2 -
Sensory Habits as Pragmatic Quasi-Object Relations; Introduction; A Brief
Sociological Trajectory Of The Senses; Pragmatic Habits as Mediating Senses;
Habitual Favourites as a Concept; Reassessing Sensory Sociology and Habitual
Favourites With Autism; Michel Serres, The Parasite and Quasi-Objects;
Habitual Favourites as Quasi-Objects The Sensory Autistic Manifold;
Conclusion;
Chapter Exercises; Bibliography;
Chapter 3 - Habitual Favourites:
Modulated Thresholds and Quasi-Objects; Introduction An Outline of The
Chapter; Factors Impacting The Relationships to Favourites in Autism;
Developing The Quasi-Object Concept; Some Comments on Using an "Events" Based
Analysis; Doug Cats, Technological Quasi-Objects and Soylent as Parasite;
Garry Multi-Modal Anxiety Relief and Social Management; Josh - Escalator
Sickness; Conclusion Reformulating Parasitical Quasi-Objects;
Chapter
Exercises; Bibliography;
Chapter 4 - An Auto/AutieEthnography Part 1 -
Methodological and Researcher Positionality; Introductory Vignette - A
Multivocal Discussion of Research; Evocative Uses of Vignettes and
Multivocality in Autoethnographic Accounts; A Brief Interlude Analytic
Autoethnography; An Evocative and Post-Structural Commitment to Openness;
Autoethnography Concerns and Challenges;The Slippage Between Autoethnography
as Narcissistic and Theory of Mind; An Emplaced Concern With Relational
Ethics; Autoethnography as Journeying and Pragmatic Balance;
Chapter
Exercises; Bibliography;
Chapter 4.5 Auto/Autieethnography Part 1.5
Distributed Sociality and Posthuman Disability; Introduction A Brief
Interlude; Beyond Poststructural Autoethnography to Quasi-Object
Relationality; PhD Work, Disability Support and Relational Ethics; How Does
The Autistic Author Emerge?; Revealing the Analytic Potential in the Academic
Mundane; A Concluding Multivocal Discussion;
Chapter Exercises; Bibliography;
Chapter 5 - An Auto/AutieEthnography Part 2 - Autoethnographic Writing
Vignettes ; Introduction - Of Writing Vignettes and Autoethnography; Writing
Vignette 1 - Writing in Chaos - Autism, Writing and Home Care; My PhD
"Writing Day" Exhilaration, Exasperation and Emotional Exhaustion; Discussion
- Writing as a Mundane Academic Habitus; The Consequences of Writing in Chaos
- Thinking With Care in Writing; How Do You Cope? - Future Directions;
Post-PhD Update; Writing Vignette 2 - The "Glow" of Academic Labour; Back to
Caring - Intellectual Structures and Identity; Conclusion - Reflecting on a
Sociological Imagination;
Chapter Exercises; Bibliography;
Chapter 6 -
Affective Atmospheres: Perturbations and Emplaced Affects ; Introduction;
What is An Affective Atmosphere?; What Can Be Called an Atmosphere? -
Boundaries and Effects; Atmospheric Interstices - Beyond Binaries; Data
Analysis - The Material/Spatial Organisation of The Club; Case 1 - Sound,
KISS Radio and (Non)-Human Atmospheres; Case 2 - Echolalia, Gestural Semiosis
and Blackadder; Conclusion;
Chapter Exercises; Bibliography;
Chapter 7 -
Sensory and Disability Futures ; Introduction; Habitual Favourites in Policy
and Practice; Multi-Media Sensory Research; Habitual Favourites and Social
Categories; The Book as Quasi-Object;
Chapter Exercises; Bibliography; Index

Robert Rourke is a Sociology PhD graduate who is interested in social theory, continental philosophy and disability studies. He is particularly interested in reimagining the dis/ability divide and examining how attention to autistic experience can reveal mundane power structures.