Mosaico no tempo : uma inter-ação entre corpo, cegueira e baixa visão

Abstract

This Ph.D. dissertation aims at following up on a few issues raised out the articulation between body, blindness, and low vision, under the light that body work can lead a productive way into modes of seeing and not seeing. We sustain that articulation can perform/enact a reality which unfolds alternatives to reinventing the self in view of blindness and low vision, a stand running contrary to the dominating understanding of that condition as one of deficit , lack, and incapacity. This field research was conducted among blind and low vision young students attending the Instituto Benjamin Constant and bears a testimonial from the professional practice the author has had along the course of 30 years among children under those visual conditions. Methodology used was constructed on the basis of two different practices, as a mosaic in composition. That is, [1] bits-stubs-fragmentscoming out the body expression and experimentation workshop for young people, created to the development of this research; and [2] bits-stubs-fragments obtained from the author s professional background with children. Background is actualized into the present practice. At the workshop device, activities involve the body in connection with a wide spectrum of materials; they stimulate body expression, creativity, body perception, and body movements; and they give birth to issues produced in Inter-Action , with ludicity as the backdrop to that scenario. Writing of the text relied on narratives, in which dialogues and issues collected in the field are highlighted. To sustain the process-like nature of this Ph.D. dissertation, we have resorted to a Sciences Anthropology-based theoretical framework, integrated by the writings of Annemarie Mol, Bruno Latour, Vinciane Despret, John Law, and Marcia Moraes