Gebundenes Buch

Disability in the Global Sport Arena

A Sporting Chance

Herausgeber: Le Clair, Jill M.

Beschreibung

This book explores organizational and individual transformations for the inclusion of persons with disabilities in sport. It helps us understand how this small event involving only sixteen disabled British veterans led to the globalized 136-member 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 701g
• ISBN-13: 9780415488518
• ISBN-10: 0415488516
• Artikelnr.: 34224500