Protected: 1. How Critical is Critical Neurodiversity Studies? Reflecting on Intersectional Privilege, Self-(a)criticality and Micro-Politics

Chair: Dyi Dieuwertje Huijg

Participants: To be confirmed

This open roundtable ‘How Critical is Critical Neurodiversity Studies? Reflecting on Intersectional Privilege, Self-(a)criticality and Micro-Politics’ offers an opportunity to critically reflect on Critical Neurodiversity Studies. Rather than merely focussing on ideas, the panellists will talk with each other about what doing Critical Neurodiversity Studies actually means and requires, and the audience is invited to contribute too. This roundtable starts with the realisation that Critical Neurodiversity Studies requires a theory and a praxis of intersectional social justice at various levels: the field, the ‘group’ as well as the interpersonal and personal levels. This implies that we have to address the tension between critically thinking about neurodiversity and critically doing neurodiversity studies. Specifically, this panels raises that such criticality requires us to intersectionally reflect on the role of privilege, self-criticality and the lack thereof, and the micro-politics of those doing the (critical) study of neurodiversity, and on the implications these doings and nondoings have on the field, on our interpersonal relations, and on us as individuals and, in turn, how that impacts what Critical Neurodiversity Studies ‘is’.

Topics that we might explore in the roundtable can be e.g.: (non-)accountability; playing lip service to intersectionality; not ‘walking the talk’; the tension between theoretical and empirical research; entitlement and structural privilege; prioritising neurodivergence and neuroableism over other social identities, inequalities and injustices; the difference between being challenged and being bullied; citational violence; gatekeeping; heroes and hero culture; vindictiveness and harm; and punitive versus transformative justice.

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Meeting ID: 986 7213 9375

Passcode: 741150