WHAT CAN A DISABLED BODY?: SIGNALS OF SUBJECTIVITY

Abstract

The discussion on the body is a recurring theme. The question "What can a body?" is the guiding themes and trigger of the
reflections that crossed all the content of this research. The same was snatched by some concepts treated by Deleuze, Guattari
and Foucault, authors who discuss the standard concepts, speech, and disciplining of bodies and subjectivities singularization
processes that - like it or not - were quite helpful on issues that interest us. The clipping present is the result of anthropological
research doctoral conducted next to deaf community of Rio de Janeiro/Brazil. Foucault in his work points to the question of
how the body - at least since the sixteenth century - served in the formulation of knowledge, a discourse of power. The
discussion on the body can also come linked to the concept of identity when some authors present categories such as old age,
midlife crisis, to name a few, in which the body time - marked by biologizing idea of chronological age - is presented as an
element that is intertwined in others who have settings that resemble the body of the young, the body of the elderly, the female
body, the disabled body... In the case of deaf people, this body is not only historically marked by the prohibition to use sign
language - which resembles a social genocide. Thus, it can be check the resistance of a social group organized by leaders
which reveals forces behind stereotypes / levies found in the social imaginary, as well as the way they are represented in social
institutions such as family and school. So, the main objective of the leaders, in addition to the confrontation of the logics in the
different own worlds, constitutes the possibility of transformation of "stigmatized identity" in a "respected and valued identity."