POLICY BODIES, DISABILITY AND CAPITALISM IN LATIN AMERICA. THE VALIDITY OF DISABILITY AS A PERSONAL TRAGEDY

Abstract

Questioning the diagnosis asserting a change in attitudes towards people with "disabilities" aimed to respect
them as subjects of rights in Latin America, this article rampant proliferation of processes of material and
symbolic exclusion affecting this minority is supported and promoted social domination. In the peripheral
countries, contemporary capitalism, through policies of bodies, produces and manages the exclusion of people
with "disabilities". In this process, fantasy and rhetoric body capable of reducing disability to a personal medical
tragedy has a central role of legitimation. Retrieving critically contributions of Anglo-Saxon social model and the
sociology of Latin American body the conceptual links between capitalism, political bodies, disability and
exclusion are discussed. The perception of the disabled body is analyzed pointing games fantasies and active
social ghosts. It concludes by advocating the need for theoretical developments critical for understanding these
dynamics in peripheral contexts in the broader context of contemporary capitalism.