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by addressing autism not as a disability but as a different way of thinking

By circumventing law altogether

and the possibilities for change requires an in-depth reconceptualization

biological determinism has been coupled with political philosophies that hold that some people are inherently better than others

Contested Natures Stephen Cummings and the collapse of theExploring the changing significance of nature in daily life, this text demonstrates that nature is irreducibly contested and embedded in highly diverse and ambivalent social practices. The book emphasizes that people's understandings and attitudes to nature are often ambivalent and there are no simple ways of prevailing upon them to "save the environment". The authors show that while environmental tasks permeate everyday life, people hugely mistrust