Berenice Vargas García
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8454-769X
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, México
berenice.vargs@gmail.com
Abstract:
In a wink to Achille Mbembe’s Critique of Black Reason (2016), this article aims to advance some debates to outline what I call autistic reason: the practices, discourses, devices, and technologies that have informed the autistic body as subhuman —or proto-human—, sick, disturbed, disabled, and alienated from other bodies, beings, worlds, and environments. Drawing on critical animal studies, Latin American critical disability studies, crip-disabled anthropologies, and the paradigm of neuro-diversity in/from the global South, I will analyze the interweavings of ableism and speciesism that are present in the construction of autistic bodies as animaliz(able), as well as their potential of turn and subversion in autistic-animal politization and resistance.
Keywords: autism, critical animal studies, critical studies on disability, speciesism, ableism.
