The Palgrave handbook of paralympic studies /
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London, United Kingdom :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Organisation of This Book; References; Part I: Conceptualising Disability Sport; 2: Disability Models: Explaining and Understanding Disability Sport in Different Ways; 2.1 Medical Model; 2.2 The UK Social Model; 2.3 The Social Relational Model; 2.4 Human Rights Model of Disability; 2.5 Additional Future Directions; 2.6 Conclusion; References; 3: Multiple Oppression and Tackling Stigma Through Sport; 3.1 Identity; 3.2 Stigma; 3.3 Introductory Case Study; 3.4 Gender and Paralympic Sport.
- 3.5 Sexuality and Paralympic Sport3.6 Socioeconomic Status and Paralympic Sport; 3.7 Race and Paralympic Sport; 3.8 Bringing It All Together; References; 4: Disability and Barriers to Inclusion; 4.1 A Utopian Society, Inclusion and Sport?; 4.2 Barriers to Inclusion in Sport; Attitudinal Barriers; Structural Barriers; Barriers, Impairment and Difference; 4.3 Conclusion; References; 5: Sport and Social Movements by and for Disability and Deaf Communities: Important Differences in Self-Determination, Politicisation, and Activism.
- 5.1 Setting the Stage: Pre-war Sport and Social Movements by or for Disabled and Deaf Communities (1860â#x80;#x93;1914)5.2 Medicalisation, Sport, and Self-Advocacy in the Wake of the World Wars (1914â#x80;#x93;1960s) Medicalised Movements for Disabled People; 5.3 Self-Advocacy Movements of Disabled People; 5.4 Sport of or for Disabled People?; 5.5 Disability Radicalisation, Globalisation, and Sports Institutionalisation (1960 to 1990); European Leftist Movements; American Rights Movements; De-colonisation and the Globalisation of Disability Movements.
- Â#x80;#x9C;Nothing About Us Without Usâ#x80;#x9D; on the International Stage5.6 The Globalisation of Disability Sport; 5.7 Multi-nationals, Anti-austerity, and Paralympic Sponsorships (1990s to 2010s); Inspiring Austerity; Inspiring Disablement; 5.8 Summation and Reconciliations; References; 6: Game Changer? Social Media, Representations of Disability and the Paralympic Games; 6.1 Media, Disability, Sport and Representation; 6.2 Game Changer? New Media and Sport; 6.3 New Media and Disability; 6.4 London 2012: Meet the Superhumans Campaign.
- Representation of Paralympians as Elite Athletes6.5 The Rise of Social Media: Twitter and the Rio Paralympic Games September 2016; 6.6 Social Networks and Social Behaviours; 6.7 Conclusion; References; Part II: Structure and Development of the Paralympic Movement; 7: Key Points in the History and Development of the Paralympic Games; 7.1 Developing the Concept (1944â#x80;#x93;1959); Ludwig Guttmann; Stoke Mandeville Games; Methods of Growing the Games; Links to Olympic Movement; Refining of Rules for Sports and Classification.