A emancipação dos estudos da deficiência

Notwithstanding the engagement of the social sciences with questions of exclusion and inequality, the issue of disability remains absent – as a central questioning axis – from many academic contexts. The emergence of Disability Studies owes a great deal to contexts where activism by disabled persons made visible the structural conditions which oppress and neglect the experiences of disability. In that sense, and taking into consideration the specificities of the Portuguese socio‑political environment, the present essay seeks to conduct a twofold enquiry. First, which challenges should be faced to turn disability into a central issue for the Portuguese academy, in terms likely to confront the silencing that disabled persons’ voices and experiences face in social life? Second, how important should be the engagement of research with an ethical and political paradigm upholding the rights of disabled persons?

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