El dis/capacitismo en el espacio laboral: subjetividades y resistencias

Abstract

Chile represents an exemplary case of the installation of managerial logics associated with the idea of the efficient, competitive and entrepreneur individual as the optimal form of embodiment. This ability-based norm governs the recognizability of those who are categorized as “disabled”, impacting their subjectivation processes. Inserted in a larger investigation, this study sought to explore the performative dimension of ableism in the deployment of the subjectivities of Chilean workers before the labor inclusion law of people with disabilities. From an ethnographic study under the shadowing technique, we propose that the normative context forces the subjects to hide, minimize or overcompensate their dis/abilities; at the same time, that the recognition of common vulnerability, as a relational element of interdependence between workers with and without disabilities, resists and reconfigures the discourses and practices of intelligibility of bodies.