Making autism through Ocean Heaven (海洋天堂, Haiyang tiantang) and the possibilities of realizing disability differently

Alexander Gray Cockain

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Abstract

Abstract: This article focuses on a filmic portrayal of issues relating to autism in a Chinese context, using this as a prism through which to consider how meanings associated with disability in general, and the autistic spectrum in particular, are produced. Instead of perpetuating a reductive positive/negative approach to representation, the article focuses on the fluid and dynamic ways in which author and audience co-produce texts relating to disability in ways which are invariably influenced by, and reproducing of, specific socio-cultural and discursive circumstances. Meaning-making in relation to disability is, however, ongoing and there is potential to realize disability differently.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)535-552
Number of pages18
JournalDisability and Society
Volume31
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Apr 2016

Keywords

  • Autistic spectrum
  • discourse
  • manifest/latent content
  • text
  • well-meaning representations

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Health(social science)
  • General Health Professions
  • General Social Sciences

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