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ADHD Reading Group

  
ADHD 
Reading Group
(2022, present)

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The ADHD Reading Group is a spin-off of the Intersectional Neurodiversity and Disability Reading Groups. It started in 2022, and after a hiatus resumed 2 Feb 2024. Click here for past meetings and readings(Meeting 1-33 were 'counted' as the Neurodiversity Reading Group.)

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If you want to attend, please find details here how to be added to the mailing list. This also gives you access to the readings.

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Find here more information about the 'Co-constructing ADHD Pedagogy' research project that takes place in the period Mar-Dec 2024.

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COMING MEETING​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Meeting 60: 20 Dec 2024, 3-4.30pm (UK time)

Topic: Racial politics & the ‘minimal brain dysfunction’ diagnosis

  • Reading: Staub, Michael E. (2018). "Minimal Brain Dysfunction, Ritalin, and racial politics". The mismeasure of minds: Debating race and intelligence between Brown and The Bell Curve (pp.49-77): University of North Carolina Press.

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FUTURE MEETING​​

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For now, from 2025 there will be no ADHD Reading Group meetings (but, see below). Possibly, the ADHD RG might resume to discuss publications of the special issue I'm (co-)organising - Critical and Intersectional ADHD Thought: ADHDers Think Back  (CJDS) -  or other publications in the area of Critical and Intersectional ADHD Studies.

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In 2025, two other reading groups will take place:

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Eco-Ability Reading Group

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Cripping Pedagogy Reading Group

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PAST MEETINGS

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Meetings before May 2022 belonged to the Intersectional Neurodiversity Reading Group - the ADHD-RG's predecessor.

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Meeting 34: 6 May 2022

Topic: ADHD adults, language & social media

  • Guntuku, Sharath Chandra, Ramsay, J Russell, Merchant, Raina M, et al. (2017). "Language of ADHD in adults on social media". Journal of Attention Disorders, 23(12), 1475-1485. [Paywall here]

  • Thelwall, Michael, Makita, Meiko, Mas-Bleda, Amalia, et al. (2021). "'My ADHD hellbrain': A Twitter data science perspective on a behavioural disorder". Journal of Data and Information Science, 6(1), 1-22. [Open access here]

    • This older article might also be of interest: Alharbi, Rabab S. (2017). "ADHD in 140 characters or less: An analysis of Twitter commentary on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Saudi Arabia". Universal Journal of Educational Research, 5(12), 2186-2195.  [Open access here]

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Meeting 35: 20 May 2022

Topic: ADHD & temporal dimensions 

  • Stenner, Paul, O'Dell, Lindsay, & Davies, Alison. (2019). "Adult women and ADHD: On the temporal dimensions of ADHD identities". Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 49(2), 179-197. [Open access here]

  • Nielsen, Mikka. (2017). "ADHD and Temporality: A Desynchronized Way of Being in the World". Medical Anthropology, 36(3), 260-272. [Paywall here

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Meeting 36: 3 Jun 2022

Topic: ADHD, disablement & Eric Fromm

  • Veck, Wayne. (2012). "Reflecting on attention-deficient hyperactivity disorder and disablement in education with Eric Fromm". Disability & Society, 27(2), 263-275. [Paywall here]

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Meeting 37: 17 Jun 2022

Topic: ADHD & feminism

  • O'Donnovan, Maeve. (2010). "Feminism, disability, and women with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder". Journal of Critical Studies in Business & Society, 1(1/2), 29-54. [No link available] 

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BREAK: 1 July & 15 July 2022

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Meeting 38: 29 July 2022

Topic: Mind-meandering & ADHD methodology

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Meeting 39: 5 Aug 2022

Topic: ADHD & being a behavioural problem

  • Casella, Ronnie, & Page, Mitch. (2004). "The institutional context of being a behavioral problem". Disability Studies Quarterly, 24(2). [Open access here]

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HIATUS: Aug 2022 - Jan 2024

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Meeting 40: 2 Feb 2024

Topic: ADHD & academic accommodations

  • Morrison, Aimée. (2019). "(Un)reasonable, (un)necessary, and (in)appropriate: Biographic mediation of neurodivergence in academic accommodations". Biography, 42(3), 693-719. [Open access here]

  • Terry, David P. (2016). "Explanation not excuse: Attention Deficit Disorder, collegiality and coalition". Disability Studies Quarterly, 36(2). https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/4447/4305

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Meeting 41: 16 Feb 2024

Topic: ADHD & self-control

  • Koi, Polaris. (2021). "Accessing self-control". Erkenntnis. [Open access here

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Meeting 42: 01 Mar 2024

Topic: ADHD, criminalisation & whiteness

  • Heitzeg, Nancy A. (2015). "'Whiteness', criminality, and the double standards of deviance/social control". Contemporary Justice Review, 18(2), 197-214. [Open access here]

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Meeting 43: 15 Mar 2024

Topic: ADHD & the responsible subject

  • Bowden, Gregory. (2014). "Disorders of inattention and hyperactivity: The production of responsible subjects". History of the Human Sciences, 27(1), 88-107. [Open access here

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Meeting 44: 05 Apr 2024

Topic: ADHD & aboriginal perspective

  • Reading: Loh, Pek-Ru, Hayden, George, Vicary, David, et al. (2017). "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: an Aboriginal perspective on diagnosis and intervention". Journal of Tropical Psychology, 7, e2. [Open access here]

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Meeting 45: 19 Apr 2024

Topic:  ADHD, eco-pharmacology & neurofeminism

  • Reading: Gill-Peterson, Jules. (2016). "Neurofeminism. An eco-pharmacology of Childhood ADHD". In: Victoria Pitts-Taylor (Ed), Mattering: Feminism, Science, and Materialism (pp.188-203): NYU Press.  [Paywall here]

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Meeting 46: 03 May 2024

Topic: ADHD, autonomy, systems & Kant

  • Reading: Haye, Andres, Matus, Claudia, Cottet, Pablo, et al. (2018). "Autonomy and the ambiguity of biological rationalities: systems theory, ADHD and Kant". Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 39(2), 184-195. [Open access here]

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Meeting 47: 17 May 2024

Topic: ADHD & ecological understanding of restlessness

  • Reading: Helle-Valle, Anna, Binder, Per-Einar, & Stige, Brynjulf. (2015). "Do we understand children's restlessness? Constructing ecologically valid understandings through reflexive cooperation". International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 10(1), 29292. [Open access here]

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Meeting 48: 07 Jun 2024

Topic: ‘ADHD Treasure Hunt’, group work & the social model [note that the topic & reading has changed]

  • Reading: Ankori, Galia, & Gutman, Carolyn. (2020). "The ADHD treasure hunt: a group intervention using a social model approach to disability". Social Work with Groups, 43(4), 297-311. [Paywall here]

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Meeting 49: 21 Jun 2024

Topic: ADHD, reading & crip time

  • Reading: Basten, Laura. (2023). "The Codex is always on crip time: ADHD(ness) and reading". Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, 15, 89-96. [Paywall here]

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5 July 2024: SUMMER BREAK: NO MEETING 

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Meeting 50: 19 July 2024

Topic: Transgender and gender diversity on the ADHD nexus

  • Reading: Goetz, Teddy G., & Adams, Noah. (2024). "The transgender and gender diverse and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder nexus: A systematic review". Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 28(1), 2-19. [Open access here]

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Meeting 51: 2 Aug 2024

Topic: Spatialising health social movement activism & ADHD politics

  • Reading: Edwards, Claire. (2014). "Spatialising the contentious politics of ADHD: Networks and scalar strategies in health social movement activism". Health & Place, 29, pp.52-59. [Paywall here]

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Meeting 52: 16 Aug 2024

Topic: ADHD, sex(uality) and risk

 

​​6 Sep: NO MEETING (Leeds Disability Studies Conference)

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Meeting 53: 13 Sep 2024

Topic: ADHD curiosity & inquiry

  • Reading: Steglich-Petersen, Asbjørn, & Varga, Somogy. "Curiosity and zetetic style in ADHD". Philosophical Psychology, 1-25. [Paywall here]

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​Meeting 54: 20 Sep 2024

Topic: Race, ADHD & higher education

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Meeting 55: 4 Oct 2024

Topic: Counter narrating ADHD

  • Reading: Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna, Hultman, Lill, Österborg Wiklund, Sofia, et al. (2023). "Intensity and variable attention: Counter narrating ADHD, from ADHD deficits to ADHD difference". The British Journal of Social Work, 53, 3647–3664. [Open access here]

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​​​Meeting 56: 18 Oct 2024

Topic: ADHD & minimalism in fiction

  • Reading: Jones, Sophie A. (2020). "Minimalism’s attention deficit: Distraction, description, and Mary Robison’s Why Did I Ever". American Literary History, 32(2), 301-327. [Open access here]

  • Reading: Robison, Mary (2002). Why Did I Ever: Counterpoint Press. 

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Meeting 57: 1 Nov 2024

Topic: ADHD, work & capitalism

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Meeting 58: 15 Nov 2024

Topic: ADHD, cultural & a transactional model of disability

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Meeting 59: 6 Dec 2024

Topic: ADHD, men & school-to-prison pipeline

  • Reading: Kent, Hope, Kirby, Amanda, Hogarth, Lee, et al. (2023). "School to prison pipelines: Associations between school exclusion, neurodisability and age of first conviction in male prisoners". Forensic Science International: Mind and Law, 4, 100123. [Open access here]

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