P. David Howe

The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement (eBook, PDF)

Through an Anthropological Lens

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Raising questions and debates crucial to students of social and disability studies, this book queries the Paralympic games' development as a positive one, and questions its role as a vehicle for the empowerment of the disabled community.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134440832
• Artikelnr.: 43070735

Autorenporträt

P. David Howe

Inhaltsangabe

1. Athlete as Anthropologist
Anthropologist as Athlete
Part 1: Sport and Disability
2. A Social History of Sport for the Disabled
3. Paralympic 'Lived History': Reflections of a Participant Observer
4. The Politics of Sporting Disablement
5. Mediated Paralympic Culture
Part 2: Impairment
Sport and Performance
6. The Imperfect Body and Sport
7. Technology and the Paralympic Games
8. Accommodating Paralympic Bodies
Appendix: Through the Anthropological Lens