Activismo, movimientos y participación social de las personas con diversidad funcional durante la transición a la democracia

Abstract

People with functional diversity suffered with greater incidence the limitations and deficiencies of the dictatorial system and its social policies. However, as in other parts of the world, in the middle of the century, a significant change of conscience took place. This critical spirit was consolidated in the death of Franco. In fact, the political transition to democracy was understood as an opportunity for change and a key historical moment for the achievement of equal rights. This text, based on a much wider research, analyzes the participation of people with functional diversity in the construction of democracy. To this end, we are approaching both direct participation in politics and the specific activism that we consider to be key to understanding the evolution of the welfare state in Spain. Moreover, without being the main objective of this contribution, we make reference to the numerous difficulties faced by these people, necessary to approach the real meaning of these social movements. Due to the absence of secondary bibliography, we have mainly used oral and hemerographic sources, in addition to written testimonies rescued from divulgation books at the time.