DEAF WOMEN IN ALAGOAS: SOCIAL INCLUSION AND RECOGNITION IN PUBLIC POLICIES TO FIGHT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
deaf women, domestic violence and public policies; deaf women, social inclusion, public policies and recognition theory.
The present research, still in development, is part of the project that seeks to investigate the elaboration and effectiveness of public policies to combat domestic violence in Alagoas and how these can interfere in the identity perceptions of deaf women as social subjects. It presents the general lines of the development of its second chapter, which will address the “new social movements, public policies and struggles for recognition”, in which the history of disability studies, the analysis of public policies, the construction of deaf identities and its consequences will be detailed, as well as the theoretical approaches to identity politics and the Theory of Recognition in Axel Honneth. In this sense, it develops reflections on how practices of signification produce meanings that involve power relations, including the power to define who is included and who is excluded, a determining factor for the understanding of how culture shapes the identity of individuals, by giving meaning to experience and by making it possible for them to opt, among the various possible identities, for a specific mode of subjectivity. This is a qualitative research involving historical analysis, documentary research, access to sources of quantitative data, use of the technique of biographical and narrative interviews with the investigated subjects and interviews with specialists and other professionals engaged in serving the group.