POLIANA INSIDE OUT: THE NEGATIVITY OF THE IMAGE ASSOCIATED WITH DISABILITY AS AN ARTIFICE OF THE INCLUSIVE PROMISE

Abstract

This theoretical essay, composed through a literary review process, aims to highlight how the association of a negative representation to people with disabilities, historically described in literature in a myriad of exclusionary landscapes, is part of an insidious but powerful artifice that aims to make palatable and defensible the promises of inclusion through normalization characteristic of the Modern Age and Contemporary Age. To this end, the text analyzes in a comparative way some of the most emblematic terrifying events narrated throughout history in the complex relationship established between people with disabilities and society. However, it does so from a constructionist perspective, highlighting contradictions in the way such phenomena were portrayed. Furthermore, the essay analyzes the changes in the way the category of disability is understood, asserting the need to develop an analytical perspective in which social justice and equal access must be achieved by removing barriers, denouncing ableism, valuing the difference in disability, accessing services and building accessible spaces, in other words, changing the shape of the world and not the shape of bodies, taking the appropriation of these elements as an eminently educational process that must be part of the curriculum and the formation process of teachers and students.