Reivindicative occupational practices of activist with disabilities

The occupational praxis of activists with disabilities in the Latin America has presented actions of revindication from historically marginalised territories.

Objective

To explore and describe strategies used by Chilean activist with disabilities.

Method

Qualitative design via three research techniques: a) 11 in-depth interviews; b) six group chat sessions; c) content analysis of eight social networks belonging to collectives of activists with disabilities in Chile.

Results

Activists indicate various occupations for revindication as subjects with rights. These trajectories are exemplified with the following dimensions: 1) Interpellate full social participation: demanding justice and citizenship; 2) Showing defective bodies: public mobilisations; 3) Occupying institutional space by placing: bodies in the system.

Conclusion

Dissident occupational practices intervene and transform the limited comprehension about what human vulnerability and fragility is capable of. This situation is mainly appreciated in the Global South.

Keywords:
Social Activism; Disabled Person; Citizienship; Latin America; Activities of Daily Living

Fictitious name	Sex	Age	Link to Disability	Collective action
Julio	M	50	Psychiatry Survivor	Autogestión Libre-Mente
Guillermo	M	33	Low vision	Colectivo Palos de Ciegos
Esteban	M	58	Low vision	Colectivo Palos de Ciegos
José	M	50	Psychiatry Survivor	Corporación voces
Ricardo	M	40	Psychiatry Survivor	AESAM
Hugo	M	45	Psychiatry Survivor	Colectivo Talidomia
Erika	F	40	Blindness / Deafness-Partial.	ODISEX
Karina	F	55	Psychiatry Survivor	COMUNIDIS
Elisabeth	F	34	Generalized Dystonia	Corporación Distonía
Beatriz	F	55	Multiple Amputee	Corporación Bio-Bio
Francisca	F	36	Neurodiversity	Mil Capacidades

Name of the activity	City of Chile	Zone
‘Psychosocial Mental Health’	Viña del Mar	Centre
‘Anti Stigma’	Concepción	South
‘Different Childhoods and Neoliberal Education’	Santiago	Centre
‘Activism and Social Movements’	Santiago	Centre
‘Madhouse Logics’	Santiago	Centre
‘Beyond the Chemical Madhouse’	Santiago	Centre

N°	Topic	Answers authors
Title and abstract
S1	Title	Yes
S2	Abstract	Yes
Introduction
S3	Problem formulation	Yes. See introduction and background sections.
S4	Purpose of research question	Yes. See introduction section.
Methods
S5	Qualitative approach and research paradigm	Research design was open and abductive, with an exploratory and descriptive reach, adopting a decolonial approach and situated. With a phenomenological perspective.
S6	Researcher characteristic and reflexivity	The authors of this article have a long history of working with critical perspectives. Particularly, two of the authors work directly from critical disability studies.
S6	Researcher characteristic and reflexivity	The first author (principal researcher) has a long history of working with disability activists.
S7	Context	Yes. See participants’ section.
S8	Sampling strategy	Yes. See participants’ and data collection sections.
S9	Ethical issues pertaining to human subjects	Yes. See ethical considerations section.
S10	Data collection methods	Yes. See data collection section.
S11	Data collection instruments and technologies	Yes. See data collection section.
S12	Units of study	Yes. See tables 1 and 2.
S13	Data processing	Yes. See data analysis section.
S14	Data analysis	Yes. See data analysis section.
S15	Techniques to enhance trustworthiness	Yes. See criteria methodological rigour section.
Results/findings
S16	Synthesis and interpretation	Yes. See results section.
S17	Links to empirical data	By request of the journal.
Discussion
S18	Integration with prior work, implications, transferability, and contribution(s) to the field.	Yes. See discussion and study considerations limits sections.
S19	Limitations	Yes. See study considerations limits section.
Other
S20	Conflicts of interest	Yes. See title page.
S21	Funding	Yes. See title page.

Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Departamento de Terapia Ocupacional Rodovia Washington Luis, Km 235, Caixa Postal 676, CEP: , 13565-905, São Carlos, SP - Brasil, Tel.: 55-16-3361-8749 - São Carlos - SP - Brazil
E-mail: cadto@ufscar.br

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[1] Author’s Contributions

Study design: Juan Andrés Pino-Morán, Inmaculada Zango-Martin, Pía Rodríguez-Garrido, Enrico Mora-Malo. Data collection: Juan Andrés Pino-Morán. Data analysis: Juan Andrés Pino-Morán, Pía Rodriguez Garrido. Study supervision: Juan Andrés Pino-Morán. Manuscript writing: Juan Andrés Pino-Morán, Inmaculada Zango-Martin, Pía Rodríguez-Garrido, Enrico Mora-Malo. All authors approved the final version of the text.