Maria Concetta Lo Bosco is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. She has published on autism advocacy, mothering practices, gendered care labour and the emotional dimensions of ethnographic fieldwork.

“Becoming Advocate is a powerful ethnography of parent-led activism on behalf of autistic children in Portugal. As an autism scholar and anthropologist, I read it with great interest and found the moments detailed between parents and their children beautifully evocative and engaging.” • Roslyn Malcolm, Durham University

• AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: Setting the sceneChapter 1. Autism and Portuguese child psychiatryChapter 2. The birth of the Portuguese autism associationismPart II: Assemblages of transitionChapter 3. Parents’ journeys and online advocacyChapter 4. Becoming advocatesPart III: Disruptive subjectivitiesChapter 5. Affectivity and engagementChapter 6. Unsettling the citizenConclusionReferencesIndex