Abstract

MUNEVAR-MUNEVAR, Dora Inés. Places to the disability in a transnational academic project. rev.fac.med. [online]. 2015, vol.63, suppl.1, pp.101-112. ISSN 0120-0011.  https://doi.org/10.15446/revfacmed.v63n3sup.49335.

The project "Measures for social inclusion and equity in institutions of higher education in Latin America" (known as MISEAL project), proposes that disability is an important marker of human difference. This article provides two separate but connected arguments: facts and figures about disability, and theoretical and conceptual foundations in the context of intersectionality. Both help to give place to spaces where it is possible to debate about human disabilities and actions focused on them, taking into account that location is a central issue in the analysis of power relationships and the understanding of the oppression experienced by people with disabilities. Locations collect, analyze and present experiences since they put disability as a concept in constitutional, population and institutional terms and place it like a social category in a intersectional perspective linked to other theoretical-conceptual proposals. Through the dialogues incorporated a greater understanding of the data, figures and interpretive frameworks around disability, their intersections with other markers of difference and their links with social relationships and power structures, is recorded. Through the experiences of people, interactions between social inequality, power structures and the experience before making emphasis on disability as a social category offset of medical knowledge to bring down the limits imposed by qualifying homogeneous practices, are reaffirmed.

Keywords : Disability; Mainstreaming; Human rights.

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