"Not staying with the wheelchair on me": the social experience of becoming disabled in Chile
Keywords:
Disability, normality, cyborg, interdependencies, human rightsAbstract
The purpose of this article is to analyze how disability is socially constructed through the life experience of a woman who became disabled by a car accident at the age of 24. The theoretical lens that accompanies this work is that of critical and social studies of disability. The study had a qualitative approach and a narrative design. For the presentation of the results, three key moments in Sole's life were considered: the moment of the accident as a space of rupture with "normality"; the constitution as a person with a disability; and the social challenges it faces in Chile. The work concludes that becoming disabled implies creating alternative meanings and a transformed identity that places interdependencies at the center in a possible posthuman assemblage within a capacitive context.
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