The reinvention of disability: new metaphors in the nature of bodies

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Bruno Sena
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Fractal : Revista de Psicologia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/fractal/article/view/5077
• topic: disability; Judith Butler; Annemarie Mol; Michel Foucault; Boaventura de Sousa Santos; deficiência; Judith Butler; Annemarie Mol; Michel Foucault; Boaventura de Sousa Santos

The concept of disability has been profoundly challenged in the last decades, both politically and epistemologically. On the one hand, there is the recognition that affiliation of certain differences under the concept of disability is nothing but a recent “invention” of Western modernity. On the other hand, is the assumption of the consequences of that construction for the people labeled as disabled? We establish dialogue with important contributions of critical theory, addressing concepts as “dividing practices” (Michel Foucault), “materialization” (Judith Butler), “the body multiple “ (Annemarie Mol) and “sociology of absences” (Boaventura de Sousa Santos), this article attempts understand how the notion of disability can be demobilized by insurgents readings of modernity and its hierarchies.