Introduction : Critical autism studies: notes on an emerging field / Michael Orsini and Joyce Davidson --
Part I. Approaching autism : Autism in an age of empathy: a cautionary critique / Patrick McDonagh --
Autism and the posthuman / Stuart Murray --
Cerebralizing autism within the neurodiversity movement / Francisco Ortega --
Autism as a form of biological citizenship / Charlotte Brownlow and Lindsay O'Dell --
Part II Researching the politics and practice of care --
Autism and genetics: profit, risk, and bare life / Majia Holmer Nadesan --
Caring for autism: Toward a more responsive state / Kristin Bumiller --
Participatory research with autistic communities: shifting the system / Dora Raymaker and Christina Nicolaidis --
Part III. Diagnosis and difference in autism : Capturing diagnostic journeys of life on the autism spectrum / Sara Ryan --
Divided or opposed?: The level-of-functioning arguments in autism-related political discourse in Canada / Dana Lee Baker and Lila Walsh --
Autism and social movements in France: a comparative perspective / Brigitte Chamak and Beatrice Bonniau --
Part IV. Cultural productions and representations of autism : Narrating autism / Mark Osteen --
Shifting horizons of autism online / Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini --
Autism and the task of the translator / Kristina Chew --
"All the things I have ever been": autoethnographic reflections on academic writing and autism / Dawn Eddings Prince.
