Researching Disability Sport (eBook, PDF)

Theory, Method, Practice
Redaktion: Powis, Ben; Howe, P. David; Brighton, James

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Marking a new direction for disability sport scholarship, this book explores cutting-edge issues and engages creatively with contemporary approaches to research in this important emerging discipline.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 217
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000810615
• Artikelnr.: 66023594

Autorenporträt

Ben Powis is a Course Leader in the Faculty of Sport, Health and Social Sciences at Solent University, UK. His current research interests lie in the sociology of disability sport, the embodied experiences of visually impaired people in sport and physical activity, and investigating the significance of sensuous sporting experiences. James Brighton is a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport and Exercise at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. His theoretical and empirical research interests lie in disability studies, the sociology of the body and the social and cultural analyses of sport and fitness. Methodologically, he is interested in interpretive forms of qualitative inquiry including ethnography, life history, and narrative analyses. P. David Howe is a social anthropologist and holds the Dr. Frank J. Hayden Endowed Chair in Sport and Social Impact in the School of Kinesiology at Western University, Canada. His ethnographic research focuses on unpacking the embodied sociocultural milieu surrounding inclusive physical activity and disability sport. He is also editor of the Routledge book series Disability, Sport and Physical Activity Cultures.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Researching Disability Sport: An Introduction
Part I: Foundations for Disability Sport Scholarship
2. Theorising Disability Sport
3. Cultural Politics
Disability Sport and Physical Activity Research
4. What Are We Doing Here? Confessional Tales of Non-Disabled Researchers in Disability Sport
5. Barriers to Disability Sport Research and the Global South: A Personal View
Part II: Disability
Sport and Intersectionality
6. Disabled Female Sporting Bodies: Reflections on (In)Visibility of disAbility in Sport
7. Playing
Passing
and Pageantry: A Collaborative Autoethnography on Sport
Disability
Sexuality
and Belonging
8. Race
Disability and Sport: The Experience of Black Deaf Individuals
9. Disability and Ageing: Dads
Sons
Sport and Impairment
Part III: From Theory to Practice: Contemporary Issues in Disability Sport
10. Seeing without Sight: The Athlete/Guide Partnership in Disability Sport
11. Confronting Ableism from within: Reflections on Anti-Ableism Research in Disability Sport
12. Exercise
Rehabilitation and Posthuman Disability Studies: Four Responses
13. Para-Sport Activism in South Korea
14. Conclusion: The Future of Disability Sport Research