An urban-centric reading of the sociocultural context and disability: Disabling ruralities?

Abstract

Nowadays, Persons with Disabilities (PwD) face physical, social, economic, political, and cultural obstacles that prevail in the environment and that determine their inclusion and exclusion in society, even if there is a legal framework that defines their rights.
A framework that is conceived as a kind of fetishization, but it has not satisfied its real requirements. In addition, it hardly considers the voices and experiences of people with a physical, mental, or sensory limitation. Therefore, they face exclusion, discrimination, stigmatization, and oppression.

For the above mentioned the objective of this article is to analyze the sociocultural practices that determine a person's disability when confronted with daily life, essentially in contexts that do not adjust to what the Mexican legal framework establishes, for example, in the Rural Environment. Some interviews were conducted with people with disabilities. Hermeneutics was used for the analysis of the legislation. It was found that there are different conceptions about disability, and that there is a general ignorance about the legislation and the experiences of PwD in governments, society and with the PwD. That is why their exclusion and oppression is emphasized.