A Política de acessibilidade na cidade de Dourados, MS: um estudo sobre as práticas discursivas e não discursivas

Abstract

The accessibility issue has been getting prominence in the public policies and in the governmental datebooks in order to include socially disabled people. Thus, the aim of this research has been studied the accessibility public policies and understand, by Foucaltiano theoretical reference, how are built discursive practices and non discursive about accessibility in Dourados city, MS, bearing the social rights in mind. The specific aims were: to Know and to analyze the governmental speech through laws, decrees, technical rules, projects and plans and identify strategies inside these policies; to clarify the enunciations of the specific practices present in the disabled people testimonies so to detect the eases and drawbacks to have access to transportation , public roads and cultural places; to portray, to describe and to think about the conditions of accessibility and social practices that can interfere in the freedom of come and go. The methodology has been based on the archeological genealogy in order to understand the relationship between knowing and power and the truth in the discursive formation. The documental analysis used was the Federal Constitution from 1988, the juridical rules and governmental proposals from the last decades. The procedures to collect data were: interviews with seven disabled people; photos showing the eases and drawbacks faced by them; The results pointing out: “legal inflation” by the excessive number of documents, rules and guidance in the nationwide; dispersion and absence of speech in Mato Grosso do Sul; an absence in the local speech; absence of laws and guidance; projects and plans in the town of Dourados. To sum up, the discursive practices and non discursive revealed a regime of control, mechanism of exclusion of disabled people and mobility reduction, lack of adaptations, which represents the absence of public policies that guarantee the fundamental right to come and go with safety in the town.