The autism industrial complex : how branding, marketing, and capital investment turned autism into big business

Broderick, Alicia A. (author.). Roscigno, Robin, (contributor.). McGuire, Anne, 1981- (writer of foreword.).

Summary: Autism--a concept that barely existed 75 years ago--currently feeds multiple, multi-billion-dollar-a-year, global industries. In "The autism industrial complex : how branding, marketing, and capital investment turned autism into big business," Alicia A. Broderick analyzes how we got from the 11 children first identified by Leo Kanner in 1943 as "autistic" to the billion-dollar autism industries that are booming today. Broderick argues that, within the Autism Industrial Complex (AIC), almost anyone can capitalize on-- and profit from-- autism, and she also shows us how. The AIC has not always been

Record details

ISBN: 9781975501853
ISBN: 197550187X
ISBN: 9781975501877
ISBN: 1975501861
ISBN: 9781975501860
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 299 pages)
remote
Publisher: Gorham, Maine : Myers Education Press, [2022]
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Autism, Inc.: The Autism Industrial Complex / by Alicia A. Broderick and Robin Roscigno -- Consuming Autism as Social Problem and the Cultural Logic of Intervention / by Alicia A. Broderick and Robin Roscigno -- Rhetoric and Neoliberalism: On (Re)Branding and Consuming Hope -- The Politics of Hope: Autism and 'Recovery [to Normalcy]' -- The Politics of Truth: Deploying Scientism in ABA Rhetoric -- The Politics of Fear: The Fires that Forged the Economic Apparatus of the AIC -- Intervention, Inc.: Nonprofit Corporations and Venture Capital -- Prevention, Inc.: The Cultural Logic of Prevention, Basic Research, Hedging Bets, and Perennial (re)Branding -- Autism and Biocapitalist Emergences: Biopolitical Technologies of Control -- On Being Autistic in Neoliberal Capitalist Ruins: Endemic Precarity and Autistic Futurity.