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A resource for progressing current research into disability sport.
Brings together an eclectic mix of contributing authors. This
includes disabled and able-bodied academics, and particularly for
the sections in which we address intersectionality, authors who
themselves have lived experiences of living with multiple
identities. Bridge important gaps between disability studies and
sport sociology through offering thorough interrogations between
theory, method and empiricism progressing research in the field.
This book investigates the complex relationship between embodiment,
identity and disability sport, based on ethnographic research with
an international-level visually impaired cricket team. Alongside
issues of empowerment, classification and valorisation, it
conceptualises the sensuous dimension of being in disability sport
and challenges the idealised notion of the sporting body. It
explores the players' lived experiences of participating and
competing in an elite disabled sport culture and uses an embodied
theoretical approach drawing upon sociology, phenomenology and
contemporary disability theory to examine aspects of this
previously unexamined research "site," both on and off the pitch.
Written in a way that values and accurately represents the
participants' traditionally marginalised voices, the book analyses
the role that elite disability sport plays in the construction of
identity and helps us to better understand the relationships
between disability, sport and wider society. Embodiment, Identity
and Disability Sport is essential reading for any student,
researcher, practitioner or policymaker working in disability
sport, and a source of useful new perspectives for anybody with an
interest in the sociology of sport or disability studies.
This book investigates the complex relationship between embodiment,
identity and disability sport, based on ethnographic research with
an international-level visually impaired cricket team. Alongside
issues of empowerment, classification and valorisation, it
conceptualises the sensuous dimension of being in disability sport
and challenges the idealised notion of the sporting body. It
explores the players' lived experiences of participating and
competing in an elite disabled sport culture and uses an embodied
theoretical approach drawing upon sociology, phenomenology and
contemporary disability theory to examine aspects of this
previously unexamined research "site," both on and off the pitch.
Written in a way that values and accurately represents the
participants' traditionally marginalised voices, the book analyses
the role that elite disability sport plays in the construction of
identity and helps us to better understand the relationships
between disability, sport and wider society. Embodiment, Identity
and Disability Sport is essential reading for any student,
researcher, practitioner or policymaker working in disability
sport, and a source of useful new perspectives for anybody with an
interest in the sociology of sport or disability studies.
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