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Luiz Gustavo Pereira de Souza Correia –
UFS
Associate Professor of the Department of Social Science
and the Research and Post-Graduation Center in Anthropology
of the Federal University of Sergipe. Doctorate
degree in Anthropology by the Federal University of Rio
Grande do Sul, Master degree in Sociology and a Bachelor
degree in Social Communications by Federal University
of Paraiba. Member of the Disability and Accessibility
Committee of ABA. Leader of GRAPPA (Group of Analyses
of Audiovisual Polices and Poetics). Researcher associated to RIESDIS (Iberoamerican
Network of Social Studies on Disability) and to GREM (Research Group and
Sociology and Anthropology of the Emotions).
Lecture’s Title
Body and emotions, disability and social exclusion
Abstract
This communication has as its main goal to think over the relation between body,
emotion and disability. The presentation tries to contrast the speeches on disability,
social exclusion and inclusion with the everyday practices and narratives
from blind individuals that live in Porto Alegre, by discussing the “disable body”
in a critical perspective of the approaches models proposed in the biomedical
field and the cultural studies on disability. The body is understood as an element
of apprehension and expression of the process of
configuration of memories and social groups’ identity in an exclusion situation.
The discussion revolves around the tension of the exclusion game and the socialization
revealed in the persons interpretation of their personal and collective experiences.
The everyday practi ces and the emotions expressed in their narratives
are the revealing elements of the exclusion process in the social game.
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