The anamorphic operation as a forced gaze: (re)knowing the ableist ideology

Abstract

In his book "La ideología capacitista. Anamorphosis of social exclusion", Miguel A.V. Ferreira invites us to adopt a necessary and urgent perspective in order to begin to appreciate disability from other points of view. Each of the six chapters that comprise his compiled work represent an anamorphic operation in pursuit of denaturalising the conventional (and ableist) gaze that has been able to settle on disability. A perception that permeates everyday discourses and actions and that has not lost its relevance in our current post-modern society - and that goes unnoticed, unless we delve into the processes of estrangement that the compiled authors force. A technique of prism twists that, as a whole, make up a new and mandatory lens to observe the discrimination bias faced by the group of people with functional diversity as a result of this ableist ideology