ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the neoliberal choices made by the status quo, in the context of the history of Trinidad and Tobago, have shifted social and infrastructural support systems impacting on disabled bodies. It seeks to ethnographically foreground disability on the move, occupying and being occupied, while interrogating existing power hierarchies that affect mobility and occupation. Brown and black bodies embodied capitalist production and became bodies of difference within the colonial system. The economic and socio-historical context, in which the Caribbean was manipulated, as a microcosm of the worldwide economic market during colonialism, heavily impacted all island territories to varying degrees. The legal and social constraints that were cultivated to maintain dependency established during the colonial era have been maintained in contemporary times. Mobility-as-occupation is more than just the composition of its constituent parts. As a taken-for-granted category, it reflects the political, processual and relational embodiment within and between the disabled body-mind and the immediate environment.
