Reframing disability?: media, (dis)empowerment, and voice in the 2012 paralympics
In: Routledge research in sport, culture and society 41
In: Routledge research in sport, culture and society 41
In: Routledge research in sport, culture and society 41
In: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
The London 2012 Paralympic Games - the biggest, most accessible and best-attended games in the Paralympics' 64-year history - came with an explicit aim to ""transform the perception of disabled people in society,"" and use sport to contribute to ""a better world for all people with a disability."" This social agenda offered the potential to re-frame disability; to symbolically challenge ""ableist"" ideology and to offer a reinvention of the (dis)abled body and a redefinition of the possible. This edited collection investigates what has and is happening in relation to these ambitions. The book
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