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The social empowerment of difference: the potential influence of para sport
journal contribution
posted on 2018-02-01, 15:46 authored by Carla Silva, David HoweIn this paper, we explore the significance of parasport in highlighting an emancipatory understanding of difference and enhancing social empowerment. By illuminating the influence of ableist ideology upon people with impairments we draw upon the field of disability studies. We ultimately argue that rather than being supressed, difference should be recognised and valued in parasport practices and ideologies, leading to a pluralist culture, in which further and wider social emancipation can be grounded. Acceptance of difference is an absolute and essential pre-condition for parasport cultures to promote positive social change for people with disabilities.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Clinics of North AmericaCitation
SILVA, C. and HOWE, P.D., 2018. The social empowerment of difference: the potential influence of para sport. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America, 29 (2), pp.397-408.Publisher
© ElsevierVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2018-01-23Publication date
2018Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmr.2018.01.009ISSN
1047-9651eISSN
1558-1381Publisher version
Language
- en