Author: Michael Orsini

Governing COVID in Brazil: Dissecting the Ableist and Reluctant Authoritarian

Post author Francisco Ortega and Michael Orsini
Post date April 17, 2020
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This article is part of the following series: Dispatches from the pandemic

Brazilians, says President Jair Bolsonaro, are so tough they can fend off this pesky COVID-19 virus, the same virus that has killed more than 147,000+ people worldwide and counting.

Likening COVID-19 to a “little flu”, the Brazilian leader has exposed, once again, how he governs this South American country with a toxic mix of populist mistrust of science, ableism, and …

Tags Brazil, coronavirus, COVID-19, Latin America, Politics

Books

Feeling Autism Neuroscience

Post author Michael Orsini
Post date February 6, 2018

Des Fitzgerald’s new book, Tracing Autism, has a little something for everyone. Readers in the fields of Science and Technology Studies (STS), sociology of science, feminist theory, neuroscience, not to mention the social study of autism, will find much to incite further reflection and debate.

Indeed, one of the strengths of Tracing Autism is its ability to speak to …

Tags Affect, Autism, Neuroscience