Ableism: a useful category for the historical analysis of social marginalizations

Abstract

This article, carried out through an integrative literary review process, aims to provide contributions to the production of an epistemology of ableism. To this end, it scrutinizes the idea of a norm and reveals the violence contained in its constituent elements, which pushed the difference between disability and prohibition. It then historicizes the formative processes of ableist logic and highlights how it can serve as an analytical tool for understanding marginalizations experienced by minority groups, given the centripetal character exercised by corponormativity idea. It ends by noting that the construction of an ableist epistemology is configured as part of the broader struggle for justice and the construction of a new social geography, a new anthropology.