Abstract
In this article, we present some potentialities of researching dis/ability in the global South from a new materialist and posthuman approach. We recognize that Southern disabled bodies are constituted in much more complex ways than those represented by globalized models of disability. Deleuze and Guattari’s assemblage theory can be a powerful tool to both demodel dis/ability and map the geopolitical and biosocial forces that produce it. With this theory, we map the production of dis/ability in neoliberal Chile, connecting the 2019 Chilean protests, the sex education policies for children and youth with disabilities, and the neocolonial intensities of neoliberal-ableism. Through this analysis, we show how discursive-material practices of ablement and disablement are legitimized as civilizing technologies by global discourses of inclusion and economic productivity. The return to ontological questions is presented as an opportunity for Disability Studies in the global South to move towards decolonization.
Highlights
During the last decade, voices that call for the decolonization and rethinking of Disability Studies in the global South have started to emerge
We propose demodeling as a collection of theoretical, methodological, and political gestures aimed at guaranteeing new ways of problematization of the ontological questions that hegemonic models of disability take for granted
We retell how neoliberal-ableism works on people with disabilities, the rhizomatic potential of non-normative corporalities, and the possibilities opened by demodeling as a political, philosophical, and methodological step towards a decolonized disability research in Southern contexts
Summary
Voices that call for the decolonization and rethinking of Disability Studies in the global South have started to emerge (for example, Grech 2012; Hollingsworth 2013; Meekosha 2011; Watermeter, McKenzie & Swartz 2019). We retell how neoliberal-ableism works on people with disabilities, the rhizomatic potential of non-normative corporalities, and the possibilities opened by demodeling as a political, philosophical, and methodological step towards a decolonized disability research in Southern contexts.
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