The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement: Through an Anthropological Lens

ISBN-13: 9780415288873 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 196 str.

David Howe

Opis

Presenting an examination of the social, political and economic processes shaping the Paralympic Movement, this book reviews the status of the Paralympics. It challenges the mainstream assumption that the Games are a vehicle for empowerment of the disabled community, and offers insight into the relationship between sport, the body and disability.

Spis treści

1. Athlete as Anthropologist, Anthropologist as Athlete, Part 1: Sport and Disability, 2. A Social History of Sport for the Disabled, 3. Paralympic ‘Lived History’: Reflections of a Participant Observer, 4. The Politics of Sporting Disablement, 5. Mediated Paralympic Culture, Part 2: Impairment, Sport and Performance, 6. The Imperfect Body and Sport, 7. Technology and the Paralympic Games, 8. Accommodating Paralympic Bodies, Appendix: Through the Anthropological Lens

O autorze

P. David Howe