The materiality of discourses about neuromotor physical disability/cerebral paralysis

• Main Author: Barroso de Almeida Júnior, Claudovil
• Publication Date: 2019
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Estação Científica (UNIFAP)
• Download full: https://periodicos.unifap.br/index.php/estacao/article/view/4022
• topic: Neuromotor Physical Disability; Cerebral Palsy; Speeches; Deficiência Física Neuromotora; Paralisia Cerebral; Discursos

Historically, the person with neuromotor disability/cerebral palsy at birth symbolically carries concepts attributed to them because it does not meet social expectations. Thus, having the desire to observe how they materialize, the study aims to analyze the conceptions present in the discourses about the person with neuromotor disability/cerebral palsy in artistic as well as academic productions. Methodologically, it was used the descriptive research of qualitative character, with the investigation of works that dialogue with the subject in evidence. As for the results, it is observed that the materiality of the discourses about the person with neuromotor disability/cerebral palsy is in a territory that subverts this subject, reinforcing an abnormality produced ideologically, with the purpose of shaping it to be socially accepted. Therefore, it is necessary for the conceptions to over-come the mechanistic view of this person, with respect to differences, contributing to their empowerment as an interlocutor of resistances and struggles against their exclusion in the social context.