Historical brands of the deaf activist movement in articulation to the practical thinking of Paulo Freire and Michel Foucault

Abstract

The legal achievements and visibility conferred to the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) led to a greater appearance of deaf people in various socio-political spaces. At the same time, the welfarist discourse of the current federal government, under the auspices of a supposed “care” for deaf people, establishes a setback for rights, assigning for itself the recognition of this community agenda and erasing the historical struggles of the deaf movement in the country. In an attempt to instill hope from counter-conducts such as those made by some deaf lives today, this work aims to recall the history of deaf activism in Brazil, mapping deaf voices in articulation with the Freirean and Foucaultian perspectives.

Keywords
deaf activism; deaf pedagogy; counter-conducts