Dispositif de normes et diagnostic de handicap

Abstract

International audience ; In this article, the diagnosis of disability is analyzed as a device in the Foucauldian sense, that is to say "all that has, in one way or another, the ability to capture, direct, determine , To intercept, to model, to control and to ensure the gestures, the conduct, the opinions and the discourses of the living beings "(Agamben, 2014). In other words, I am discussing a certain social and political use of the norm that determines disability through the rationality of biological normativity and social normativity of normative techniques of the disabled body, from the diagnosis of disability to the forms of catch in charge. I thus put forward a hypothesis linked to the establishment of a standardization of discourse and practices of educational management linked not only to diagnosis, but also to the educational devices Western-centered, neoliberal which places the subject of the diagnosis in a The paradoxical injunction: placed in a standard of diagnosed handicap, the diagnosed subject is supposed to "become normal" by the play of injunction to autonomy and responsibility, despite the norm of handicap that excludes the disabled from the normal life In the educational system of normation. It must be noted that the logics at work are not only those of the mathematization of life and the mathematization of the risk to become normal, induced by the neo-liberal models of the commodification of bodies that justify decision-making in matters Protection or exclusion from the normal life of the handicapped populations, which thus determine the practices of intervention on the bodily and psychical weaknesses. ; Dans cet article, le diagnostic de handicap est analysé comme un dispositif au sens foucaldien, c'est-à-dire « tout ce qui a, d'une manière ou une autre, la capacité de capturer, d'orienter, de déterminer, d'intercepter, de modeler, de contrôler et d'assurer les gestes, les conduites, les opinions et les discours des êtres vivants » (Agamben, 2014)1. Autrement dit, je mets en discussion un ...