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dc.contributor.authorBetts, Kerri
dc.contributor.authorCreechan, Louise
dc.contributor.authorCawkwell, Rosemarie
dc.contributor.authorFinn‐Kelcey, Isabelle
dc.contributor.authorGriffin, C. J.
dc.contributor.authorHagopian, Alice
dc.contributor.authorHartley, David
dc.contributor.authorManalili, Marie Adrienne R.
dc.contributor.authorMurkumbi, Inika
dc.contributor.authorO’Donoghue, Sarinah
dc.contributor.authorShanahan, Cassandra
dc.contributor.authorStenning, Anna
dc.contributor.authorZisk, Alyssa Hillary
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-18T09:30:13Z
dc.date.available2023-01-18T09:30:13Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-17
dc.identifier282994720
dc.identifier4cd86f96-6707-4e98-b143-98b922f077db
dc.identifier85146320403
dc.identifier.citationBetts , K , Creechan , L , Cawkwell , R , Finn‐Kelcey , I , Griffin , C J , Hagopian , A , Hartley , D , Manalili , M A R , Murkumbi , I , O’Donoghue , S , Shanahan , C , Stenning , A & Zisk , A H 2023 , ' Neurodiversity, networks, and narratives : exploring intimacy and expressive freedom in the time of Covid‐19 ' , Social Inclusion , vol. 11 , no. 1 , pp. 60-71 . https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i1.5737en
dc.identifier.issn2183-2803
dc.identifier.othercrossref: 10.17645/si.v11i1.5737
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/26768
dc.descriptionFunding: This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the Wellcome Trust (Grant number 209513/Z/17/Z and 218124/Z/19/Z).en
dc.description.abstractThe Narratives of Neurodiversity Network (NNN) is a neurodivergent academic, creative, and educator collective that came together with allies during the Covid‐19 pandemic to create a network centred around emerging narratives about neuro-diversity and exploring new ways of learning and socialising. The network focuses on exploring the roles of written, spoken, and visual narratives across cultural locations about neuro‐atypical experiences in generating improved agency and self‐advocacy for those who have been subject to pathologization through neuro‐normativity and intersecting oppression. During the last year, widening access to digital platforms has provided a space to explore these issues outside of traditional academic spaces. We run a monthly “Salon,” our mixed‐media “reading, listening, and watching” group, in an effort to find positive representation within contemporary culture. Discussions have moved beyond mimesis and into a consideration of how narrative and storyworlds can question the supposed naturalness of certain ways of being in and perceiving the world. This article interrogates the network’s core principles of nonhierarchical co‐production, including the roles of creativity, community, identity, and emancipatory research which were animated by the new techno‐social context. We consider the cultural lives of neurodiversity in the West and beyond, including ethical and aesthetic dimensions. We share a faith in the power of storytelling to inform new social identities for neurodivergent people and to inform scientific understandings of atypical cognition. In exploring this, we speak through a porous first‐person plural narrator, to unsettle the idea that there is a hegemonic “we” speaking on behalf of all neurodivergent people.
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dc.format.extent499362
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofSocial Inclusionen
dc.subjectAutismen
dc.subjectCollaborationen
dc.subjectNarrativesen
dc.subjectNeurodivergenceen
dc.subjectNeurodiversityen
dc.subjectOnline communityen
dc.subjectSelf-advocacyen
dc.subjectSocial networksen
dc.subjectHM Sociologyen
dc.subjectE-NDASen
dc.subjectMCCen
dc.subject.lccHMen
dc.titleNeurodiversity, networks, and narratives : exploring intimacy and expressive freedom in the time of Covid‐19en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. International Education Instituteen
dc.identifier.doi10.17645/si.v11i1.5737
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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