Michael Hambrook

Michael Hambrook is a doctoral student in Philosophy at the University of Exeter, working on bridging the neurodiversity paradigm with decolonial thought, along with embodied, ecological, and enactive approaches to cognition. He is especially interested in South Asian concepts of relationality, difference, disability, and cognitive diversity—and how neurodivergent experiences are shaped by an amalgamation of Western colonial norms and alternative cultural normative regimes in ways that both intensify marginalisation and open liberatory possibilities. He argues there is much for Western neurodiversity scholars/advocates and philosophers of psychiatry to learn from South Asian communitarian ethics, especially heterodox egalitarian strands of thought and resistance. He is also an autistic/neurodivergent musician and poet.