Disability: An Exclusionary Narrative Construction

Abstract

The identity that culture attributes to people with disabilities is supported by narratives of exclusion that translate into discursive models of discrimination and abuse of power, represented in standards and exclusionary stereotypes that deny their capabilities and threaten their recognition to participate in conditions of equality in social and political life. In this sense, the analysis of exclusionary narratives can reveal such discriminatory practices. This study is divided into three parts: (1) the disability as a social construction translated into rules and exclusionary stereotypes (2) discursive models of disability that part of the question: what are the discourses that have tried to define disability? and (3) school as a place for the transformation of exclusionary narratives into narratives of diversity and respect for human rights. The article analyzes the category <em>disability</em> from a discursive framework of narratives of exclusion, in the construction of the identities of people with disabilities.