Friend or Foe: Understanding the institution of friendship as a context for the abuse of autistic adults

凯蒂在该提议的基础上，概述了她打算与Mencap Cymru合作，探索学习障碍患者(适当时还有他们的父母/照顾者)的日常经历和做法，以及他们如何反思他们在日常生活中遇到的结构性障碍。凯蒂打算通过人种学田野调查(例如，对同伴支持社区的观察)、调查以及对学习障碍患者和父母/照顾者的访谈来进行定性研究。根据残疾研究的最新文献(例如Goodley，Runswick-Cole)和倡导研究污名政治经济学的学者(例如Tyler，Scambler)，凯蒂将捕捉这些人如何驾驭“个人”和“结构性”污名，以思考剥削、控制和排斥是如何通过价值和价值的文化差异行使的。此外，凯蒂将考虑学习障碍人士和他们的盟友如何“抵制”污名，以及他们如何理解和动员“包容”的问题。

Katy has built on the proposal by outlining her intention to, in collaboration with MENCAP Cymru, explore the everyday experiences and practices of people with learning disabilities (and their parents/carers where appropriate), and how they reflect upon the structural barriers that they encounter in their everyday lives. Katy intends to carry out a qualitative study using ethnographic fieldwork (e.g. observations of peer-support communities), a survey, and interviews with people with learning disabilities and parents/carers. Informed by recent literature in disability studies (e.g. Goodley, Runswick-Cole) and scholars advocating for studying a political economy of stigma (e.g. Tyler, Scambler), Katy will capture how such individuals navigate 'individual' and 'structural' stigma to consider how exploitation, control, and exclusion are exercised via cultural distinctions of value and worth. Moreover, Katy will consider how people with learning disabilities and their allies 'resist' stigma and how matters of 'inclusion' are understood and mobilised by them.