Disability in the Global Sport Arena : A Sporting Chance

ISBN-13: 9780415488518 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 264 str.

Jill M. Le Clair

Opis

Sport is often at the centre of battles for rights to inclusion linked to class, race and gender, and this book explores struggles centred on disability in different cultural settings in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. It challenges oversights and assumptions about the 'normal' body, and describes how individual and organizational transformations can occur through sport. The abilities of a person are recognised and placed centre stage - instead of the individual being forgotten, excluded, or placed at the margins simply because they have a disability. National, regional and global change is part of the shift to the rights based approach reflected in the 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Making sport inclusive affects the accessibility of facilities, funding, the media, policies, programs, organisations, sponsors and spectators, and at the same time changes the cultural values of the wider society. It also raises issues about competition access and eligibility for 'different' and technologically enhanced 'cyborg' bodies, and for those most socially disadvantaged. Addressing these questions which ultimately touch on the real meaning of sport can lead to profound changes in people's attitudes, and how sport is organized locally and globally. Growth in the influential global organisations of the Paralympic Games, Special Olympics and Deaflympics is examined, as is the approach to disability in sport in both advantaged and resource poor countries. The embodied lives of persons with disabilities are explored utilizing new theoretical models, perspectives and approaches. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

Spis treści

Preface  Bruce Kidd  1. Introduction: Global organizational change in sport and the shifting meaning of disability  Jill M. Le Clair  2. Disability rights and change in a global perspective  Marcia H. Rioux  3. The Paralympic Games and 60 years of change (1948 – 2008): unification and restructuring from a disability and medical model to sport-based competition  David Legg and Robert Steadward  4. Transformed identity: from disabled person to global Paralympian  Jill M. Le Clair  5. Promoting social inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities through sport: Special Olympics International, global sport initiatives and strategies  Coreen M. Harada, Gary N. Siperstein, Robin C. Parker and David Lenox  6. Deaflympics and the Paralympics: eradicating misconceptions  Donalda Ammons and Jordan Eickman  7. South Africa, apartheid and the Paralympic Games  Ian Brittain  8. Contested issues in research on the media coverage of female Paralympic athletes  Athanasios (Sakis) Pappous, Anne Marcellini and Eric de Léséleuc  9. China and the development of sport for persons with a disability, 1978 – 2008: a review Sun Shuhan, Yan Rui, Mao Ailin, Chao Liu and Jing Tang  10. Living disability and restructuring International Paralympic Committee sport in Oceania: the challenge of perceptions, spatial dispersal and limited resources  Jagdish C. Maharaj  11. Physical activity and sport as a tool to include disabled children in Kenyan schools  José Frantz, Julie S. Phillips, Joseph M. Matheri and Joanne J. Kibet  12. Contested perspectives of ‘marvel’ and ‘mockery’ in disability and sport: Accra, Ghana  Anne-Marie Bourgeois  13. The use of sport by a Health Promoting School to address community conflict  Patricia Struthers  14. ‘Bladerunner or boundary runner’?: Oscar Pistorius, cyborg transgressions and strategies of containment  Moss E. Norman and Fiona Moola  15. Participation rates of developing countries in international disability sport: a summary and the importance of statistics for understanding and planning  Jackie Lauff  16. New direction: disability sport in Malaysia  Selina Khoo  17. Risk of catastrophic injury in sports and recreation  Charles H. Tator  18. Reflections on the participation of Muslim women in disability sport: hijab, Burkiniw, modesty and changing strategies  Sima Limoochi with Jill M. Le Clair

O autorze

Jill M. Le Clair is a Professor of Anthropology, in the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Humber College Institute, Toronto, Canada, and the Founding Chair of the Global Disability Research in Sport and Health Network.