Storytelling methods on the move

This publication is included in the Autistic Autism Scholarship Project. two authors of this publication are identified as autistic in the project.

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The Re•Storying Autism Writing Collective, Shields, R., Easton, S., Gruson-Wood, J., Gibson, M. F., Douglas, P., & Rice, C. (2022). Storytelling methods on the move. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 38(5), 691-710. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2022.2061625

Publication date: 20 Apr 2022 Added to AutiHub: 27 Aug 2026 Type: Article Article language: English

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Publication authors identified as autistic
2 / 7 (28.6%)

Abstract

This article takes up multimedia storytelling and interference as methods on the move in and beyond critical Autism studies and considers their contributions to post and qualitative studies in education. We write as a collective of Autistic and non-Autistic researchers, kin, artists, and educators. We think generatively about the tensions of trying to do anti-normative research through a multimedia storytelling project about Autism justice in education within the confines of academic spaces across differing relationalities to Autism. We situate our method within new materialist ontology, homing in on the concept of “interference”—something we believe has not been done within critical Autism studies before—considering what interference as metaphor and method might offer our analytic approach that diffraction alone might miss. Through analyzing core tensions in the research process and in three films made by Autistic participant-storytellers, we show how Autism flows together and/or collides with storytelling and other post/qualitative methods to make new story forms and modes, and with these, new patterns for understanding Autism and justice in research and education. Our aim is transformative—to open space through post/qualitative research processes for Autistic perspectives and to release multiple stories of Autism into the world. In this we lean into interference and the tangle of research and relationality, power, and possibility for more innovative, just, and critically hopeful knowledge and practice.

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70
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21
12 / 92 (13.0%) cited references include at least one author identified as autistic.
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5 / 92 (5.4%)
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87 / 92 (94.6%)
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5
61 / 172 (35.5%) names are linked to an author already present in AutiHub. 111 / 172 (64.5%) names are not yet linked.
Names linked to a person identified as autistic
19 / 172 (11.0%)
Calculated across all author names detected in the cited bibliography. Among names linked to an author already present in AutiHub: 19 / 61 (31.1%). Distinct people identified as autistic: 12 / 120 (10.0%).
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