Disability and labor: The individualization of inclusion under contemporary colonial logics

Abstract

This study explores how people with “disabilities” are configured through a new labor inclusion regulation, installed in a context of intensely commodified social development policies. Using discourse analysis and a basis on critical disability studies, the results present a neocolonial construction of the "disabled" body. The article states that while the idea of an incomplete subject is installed, the approach on inclusion shows a process of individual responsibility that promotes actions aimed at his/her ableist normalization.