Book chapter
Shifting Boundaries in Sports Technology and Disability: Equal Rights or Unfair Advantage in the Case of Oscar Pistorius?
Moving Beyond Boundaries in Disability Studies: Rights, Spaces and Innovations, pp.135-146
Routledge
2013
Abstract
What challenges are posed by changing transnational trends, agendas and movements that affect disabled people's lives, and what can disabled people, their representative organisations and their governments do to advance the agenda for self-determination and inclusion? This book draws together the writing of academics and activists to depict the experience and perspective of disabled people in relation to a range of contemporary social changes, with a focus firmly on ways in which disabled people and their allies can act to counter disabling policies and practices. Throughout the book there is an emphasis on disabled people's own voices and activism as the critical driver of theoretical critique and practical change. Chapters address a wide range of cultural, institutional and personal arenas to explore and contest the boundaries that disabled people seek to move beyond, from cross-border labour movements in Korea to experience of day services in England, from continuing and long-lasting realities of wars in Lebanon, Cambodia and Somalia to the beauty of harmony in Navajo traditions for understanding disability, from collective activism to individual participation in the Olympics. This book is recommended reading for students, researchers and activists interested in Disability Studies and is directly relevant to policy makers and practitioners in a position to reshape rights, spaces and innovations in response to the priorities disabled people feel and articulate are important for their lives. It was originally published as a special issue of Disability & Society. [Book Synopsis]
Details
- Title
- Shifting Boundaries in Sports Technology and Disability: Equal Rights or Unfair Advantage in the Case of Oscar Pistorius?
- Authors
- Brendan J Burkett (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and EngineeringM McNamme (Author) - Swansea University, United KingdomW Potthast (Author) - German Sports University, Germany
- Contributors
- Michele Moore (Editor)
- Publication details
- Moving Beyond Boundaries in Disability Studies: Rights, Spaces and Innovations, pp.135-146
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780415627252
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Health - Sports & Exercise Science
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450382802621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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