The people with disabilities in the contemporary regime of images: literature review

Abstract

This study is part of the research “(In)visibilities of people with disabilities in the contemporary regime of images” and set out to carry out an integrative literature review. The bibliographical references were collected from the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and the Brazilian Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD) databases, from 2014 to 2023, written in Portuguese and peer-reviewed in the case of journals. A group of eight researchers started with 4,623 results found using two blocks of previously validated descriptors. 103 papers were pre-selected in an analysis carried out by pairs of researchers and then submitted to collective analysis. After consideration, the final number of texts included for analysis was 22. The texts were organized into six blocks, according to the authors' objects of empirical analysis: media (newspapers, television, magazines); advertisements; cinema; photography; government portals and social networks. The conclusions point to an increase in research focusing on people with disabilities and image, from initial productions for training researchers - stricto senso (BDTD) - to productions published in Qualis A journals. The results of the research show the existence of processes that mark invisibility in the social discourse about people with disabilities. These processes cause displacement, but not transformation of the images, reinforcing existing semiolinguistic and quantitative analyses in the contemporary image regime, which help, but do not operate as analytical tools.