Unraveling Tokenism: Analysis of the Chilean Parliamentary Discourse in the Discussion of Bill No. 20.422 Establishing Standards on Equal Opportunities and Social Inclusion of People With Disabilities in Chile
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https://doi.org/10.29092/uacm.v23i60.1266Keywords:
Tokenism, disability, political discourse, symbolic violence, ChileAbstract
The study examines the political discourse of members of parliament during the debate on Bill No. 20.422 in Chile. A corpus of 37 discursive statements was compiled, and the theoretical-methodological model of Giménez (1989) was used for discourse analysis, omplemented with studies that broaden its methodological relevance (Monroy y Mayorga, 2020; Monroy y Reyes, 2023; Monroy, 2023). The objective is to unveil symbolic mechanisms of inclusion that mask practices of exclusion, mediated by logics of visibility, assimilation, and contrast –categories that characterize the phenomenon of tokenism (Kanter, 1977). The Chilean case demonstrates that, without a pertinent problematization of the culturally constructed meanings of disability, laws can become limited mechanisms for inclusion.
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