Disability and ableism: correction of bodies and production of (a)political persons

This study aimed to investigate the meanings about disability present in the process of creating and implementing a Municipal Council of Rights for People with Disabilities in a city in southern Brazil. To this end, semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine participants in the crea-tion and implementation of this Council, which were analyzed based on the analysis of the pro-cesses of meaning. The research was based on Disability Studies, with emphasis on the perspective of emancipatory research. Participants reported an understanding of disability limited to the med-ical model, which reiterated the hierarchy of bodies, the search for a cure and that delegitimized the disabled body as a politician. However, the appropriation of the field of disability studies and the knowledge of the rights provided for in the legislation contributed to the meaning of disabil-ity as social justice and to strengthen the struggle for the approval of the rights council.