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Towards a F oucauldian Methodology in the Study of Autism: Issues of Archaeology, Genealogy, and Subjectification
Author(s) -
Vakirtzi Eva,
Bayliss Phil
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9752.12004
Subject(s) - subjectification , sociology , philosophy of education , classics , art history , history , philosophy , higher education , law , linguistics , political science
The remarkable increase in diagnoses of autism has paralleled an increase in scientific research and turned the syndrome into a kind of a new ‘trend’ within psychiatric and developmental conditions of childhood. At the same time, discursive technologies, such as DSM‐IV , autobiographies, movies, fiction, etc., together with ‘educational’ interventions, such as TEACCH , PECS , M akaton, etc., seem to anticipate a form of an apparatus built around the condition named autism. Starting from this premise, the article proposes a new approach within autism studies, which treats the condition in F oucauldian terms and focuses on the emergence of the autistic subjectivity following Foucault's methodology of archaeology, genealogy, and modes of subjectification.