The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising Precarity in Austerity London

youth encounter in answering the question, ‘‘If you could take the autism away, would you?’’ Fein acknowledges that for many, central to any debate related to a ‘‘cure’’ or elimination of autism is a conceptualization of self defined entirely by internal traits and characteristics. Fein identifies the conflict over cure as ‘‘reflective of a deeper problem within a conception of personhood presumed to end at the boundaries of the body’’ (p. 210).