The cultural politics of the paralympic movement
By: David Howe.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415288866; 9780203506097; 9780415288873
Subjects: Sports for people with disabilities -- Social aspects; Athletes with disabilities -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Athlete as anthropologist, anthropologist as athlete; title: A social history of sport for the disabled; title: Paralympic "lived history" : reflections of a participant observer; title: The politics of sporting disablement; title: Mediated paralympic culture; title: The imperfect body and sport; title: Technology and the paralympic games; title: Accommodating paralympic bodies.