Leveraging Disability Sport Events: Impacts, Promises, and Possibilities

ISBN-13: 9780367520267 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 146 str.

Laura Misener; Gayle McPherson; David McGillivray

Opis

This book examines the policy, planning, development and implementation of disability sport events. It highlights the potential of sporting events for encouraging community sport participation, as well as influencing attitudes and awareness about disability in wider society, but also challenges assumptions about positive event legacies.

 

 

Spis treści

1. Introduction to Disability Studies and Sport,  2. Sport Events and Social Change,  3. Conceptualizing Disability Events: Structure and Processes,  4. Policy Perspectives of Disability and Events,  5. Communicating Parasport Events: Marketing and Media,  6. Organizational Management Perspectives and Opportunities,  7. Attitudes and Disability Sport Events,  8. Future of Parasport Events…Separate but Equal?