Hoop Dreams on Wheels - Disability and the Competitive Wheelchair Athlete (Hardcover)

Hoop Dreams on Wheels is a life-history study of wheelchair athletes associated with a premier collegiate wheelchair basketball program. The book, which grapples with the intersection of biography and history in society, situates the study in broader context with background on the history and sociology of disability and disability sports. It documents the development and evolution of the basketball program and tells the individual life stories of the athletes, highlighting the formative interpersonal and institutional experiences that influenced their agentive actions and that helped them achieve success in wheelchair sports. It also examines divisions within the disability community that reveal both empowering and disempowering aspects of competitive wheelchair athletics, and it explores some of the complexities and dilemmas of disability identity in contemporary society. The book is intended to be read by a general audience as well as by students in college courses on disability, sports, social problems, deviance, medical sociology and anthropology, and introductory sociology. It also will be of interest to scholars in the sociology of disability, sociology of sports, and medical humanities, as well as life-history researchers and professionals in the fields of physical education, therapeutic recreation, and rehabilitative counseling.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Sociology Re-Wired
Release date:	September 2008
First published:	2009
Authors:	Ronald Berger
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	170
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-96510-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Disability: social aspects Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Ball games > Basketball
LSN:	0-415-96510-1
Barcode:	9780415965101

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