Body and Disability in the Mexican Twentieth-century Modernization.

Abstract

The article analyzes the way how in the 20th century, the notion of disability was formed in Mexican education in Mexico City, the impact of this notion on the social imaginary of people and their bodies. This implied the way in which the sense of the social imaginary about capacities was created in the conformation of the individual project imposed by the market. This involves developing: 1) Body disability and the sense of subjectivity in Mexican modernity and 2) Disability as an interrogation of the modern Mexican subjective individual domain. The text closes with a critical reflection on the body and capacity as part of modernity and modernization in Mexico.