Simon Gérard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3840375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Gérard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Gérard |
| SIGNATURE | GÉRARD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Coventry University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7875-529X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dis(abling) conceptions of disability sport: An analysis of institutional change in the Paralympic movement through the lens of boundary and practice work
Using unique archival evidence on the evolution of the Paralympic movement from the mid-1940s to 1989, this paper advances our understanding of how new organisational forms emerge. Our historical narrative identifies a shift from the Games born out of a medically based and rehabilitative cultural ethos to a sport-performance centred, corporate model embodied in the establishment of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) in 1989. We show how…
The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sport Sector: Examining the Gendered Organization Through Bourdieu’s Model of Field, Capital and Habitus
This article is the first to examine experiences of women with leadership roles in the U.K. Higher Education sport sector. We carried out detailed interviews with women leaders. We utilized Bourdieu’s model of habitus, capital, and field; Acker’s concept of “gendered organizations;” and Shilling’s concept of physical capital. Our findings show Higher Education operates more inclusively than the wider sport sector, which has the potential to advan…
Leveraging accessible tourism development through mega-events, and the disability-attitude gap
Able-bodied, and increasingly people with disabilities, represent a key audience for mega-events; occasions that act as crucibles where social problems endemic to host destinations can be exposed and tackled through targeted social policy. Drawing on the social model of disability, the paper examines how Japan utilised Tokyo 2020 as a field configuring event to disrupt systems of ableist thinking and tackle physical and attitudinal barriers restr…
Du thé, des fromages et des cochons: Les "Lieux" De Qualité en Anthropologie De l'Alimentation
Au début des années 2000, Chaia Heller (2002), Elizabeth Barham (2003), puis Cristina Grasseni (2004) ont rendu compte dans leurs travaux de la place croissante occupée par la notion de « local » dans les transformations des pratiques alimentaires. Leurs recherches témoignaient des turbulences qui secouaient alors les sphères de la production et de la consommation mondiales (réactions des classes moyennes supérieures à l’industrialisation, luttes…
Ableism as a regulator of social practice and disabled peoples’ self-determination to participate in sport and physical activity
Building on the theories of ableism, social practice and self-determination, this article proposes a framework to aid explaining why disabled people (DP) are less likely to access and participate in sport and physical activity (S&PA). We argue that ableism acts as a regulatory mechanism for each of the elements (habitus, capital and field) and different forms of capital (social, cultural, economic and symbolic) of Bourdieu’s concept of social pra…
The impact of austerity on the London 2012 Summer Olympics participation legacy from a grassroots sports club perspective: An institutional logics approach
This study explores the impact of austerity on the London 2012 Summer Olympics participation legacy from a grassroots sports club perspective, utilising institutional theory. The study adopted a mixed methods approach including semi-structured interviews with 11 stakeholders involved in grassroots sport alongside a review of key policy documentation (n = 8) and relevant literature. In keeping with the institutional logics perspective, these data …
Des pannes bio-techniques: Transformation du rapport au vivant dans l’aquariophilie récifale
Cet article examine les corrélations entre différentes catégories d’actions techniques et différentes modalités de connaissance du vivant. À travers une étude ethnographique des situations de pannes dans l’aquariophilie récifale aux États-Unis, il s’agit de mettre en avant les manières dont des conceptions du vivant changent à mesure que les processus techniques dont ils sont les objets dysfonctionnent et se transforment. Les systèmes techniques …
Sports et loisirs: Une histoire des origines à nos jours, by Laurent Turcot
Sports et loisirs: une histoire des origines à nos jours, by Laurent Turcot." The International Journal of the History of Sport, 34(3-4), pp. 297–298
The Gaze in Ibn al-Haytham
The article looks at the revolutionary shift of visual interpretation as it occurred in the works of one of the most prominent Arab scientists, Ibn al-Haytham. In his critique of the visual theories of Euclide and Ptolemy, Ibn al-Haytham developed a new conception of estimating distance. Distance is no longer calculated geometrically by the visual faculty, but by the interpretation of signs which are implicit in the visual field and of which an i…
L'optique d'ibn al-haytham et la tradition ptoléméenne
Quand on compare l' Optique d'Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) à celle de Ptolémée, on rencontre des innovations à coup sûr capitales, et qui chacune mériterait une analyse particulière: étude expérimentale de la propagation rectiligne de la lumière, nouvelle théorie de la vision fondée sur la réception dans l'œil de rayons lumineux, recherche du lien entre l'anatomie de 1'œil et sa fonction optique, preuve expérimentale que la réfraction joue un rôle im…
De la reconstitution du passé: À propos de l''histoire des sciences, entre autres histoires
Le paysage, affaire de temps
Behind the Mirror
Mais qui donc était Newton
Ableism as a regulator of social practice and disabled peoples’ self-determination to participate in sport and physical activity
Building on the theories of ableism, social practice and self-determination, this article proposes a framework to aid explaining why disabled people (DP) are less likely to access and participate in sport and physical activity (S&PA). We argue that ableism acts as a regulatory mechanism for each of the elements (habitus, capital and field) and different forms of capital (social, cultural, economic and symbolic) of Bourdieu’s concept of social pra…
Leveraging accessible tourism development through mega-events, and the disability-attitude gap
Able-bodied, and increasingly people with disabilities, represent a key audience for mega-events; occasions that act as crucibles where social problems endemic to host destinations can be exposed and tackled through targeted social policy. Drawing on the social model of disability, the paper examines how Japan utilised Tokyo 2020 as a field configuring event to disrupt systems of ableist thinking and tackle physical and attitudinal barriers restr…
Behind the Mirror
Du thé, des fromages et des cochons: Les "Lieux" De Qualité en Anthropologie De l'Alimentation
Au début des années 2000, Chaia Heller (2002), Elizabeth Barham (2003), puis Cristina Grasseni (2004) ont rendu compte dans leurs travaux de la place croissante occupée par la notion de « local » dans les transformations des pratiques alimentaires. Leurs recherches témoignaient des turbulences qui secouaient alors les sphères de la production et de la consommation mondiales (réactions des classes moyennes supérieures à l’industrialisation, luttes…
Des pannes bio-techniques: Transformation du rapport au vivant dans l’aquariophilie récifale
Cet article examine les corrélations entre différentes catégories d’actions techniques et différentes modalités de connaissance du vivant. À travers une étude ethnographique des situations de pannes dans l’aquariophilie récifale aux États-Unis, il s’agit de mettre en avant les manières dont des conceptions du vivant changent à mesure que les processus techniques dont ils sont les objets dysfonctionnent et se transforment. Les systèmes techniques …
Le paysage, affaire de temps
Dis(abling) conceptions of disability sport: An analysis of institutional change in the Paralympic movement through the lens of boundary and practice work
Using unique archival evidence on the evolution of the Paralympic movement from the mid-1940s to 1989, this paper advances our understanding of how new organisational forms emerge. Our historical narrative identifies a shift from the Games born out of a medically based and rehabilitative cultural ethos to a sport-performance centred, corporate model embodied in the establishment of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) in 1989. We show how…
De la reconstitution du passé: À propos de l''histoire des sciences, entre autres histoires
Mais qui donc était Newton
Behind the Mirror
De la reconstitution du passé: À propos de l''histoire des sciences, entre autres histoires
Le paysage, affaire de temps
L'optique d'ibn al-haytham et la tradition ptoléméenne
Quand on compare l' Optique d'Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) à celle de Ptolémée, on rencontre des innovations à coup sûr capitales, et qui chacune mériterait une analyse particulière: étude expérimentale de la propagation rectiligne de la lumière, nouvelle théorie de la vision fondée sur la réception dans l'œil de rayons lumineux, recherche du lien entre l'anatomie de 1'œil et sa fonction optique, preuve expérimentale que la réfraction joue un rôle im…
The Gaze in Ibn al-Haytham
The article looks at the revolutionary shift of visual interpretation as it occurred in the works of one of the most prominent Arab scientists, Ibn al-Haytham. In his critique of the visual theories of Euclide and Ptolemy, Ibn al-Haytham developed a new conception of estimating distance. Distance is no longer calculated geometrically by the visual faculty, but by the interpretation of signs which are implicit in the visual field and of which an i…
Sports et loisirs: Une histoire des origines à nos jours, by Laurent Turcot
Sports et loisirs: une histoire des origines à nos jours, by Laurent Turcot." The International Journal of the History of Sport, 34(3-4), pp. 297–298
Des pannes bio-techniques: Transformation du rapport au vivant dans l’aquariophilie récifale
Cet article examine les corrélations entre différentes catégories d’actions techniques et différentes modalités de connaissance du vivant. À travers une étude ethnographique des situations de pannes dans l’aquariophilie récifale aux États-Unis, il s’agit de mettre en avant les manières dont des conceptions du vivant changent à mesure que les processus techniques dont ils sont les objets dysfonctionnent et se transforment. Les systèmes techniques …
Ableism as a regulator of social practice and disabled peoples’ self-determination to participate in sport and physical activity
Building on the theories of ableism, social practice and self-determination, this article proposes a framework to aid explaining why disabled people (DP) are less likely to access and participate in sport and physical activity (S&PA). We argue that ableism acts as a regulatory mechanism for each of the elements (habitus, capital and field) and different forms of capital (social, cultural, economic and symbolic) of Bourdieu’s concept of social pra…
The impact of austerity on the London 2012 Summer Olympics participation legacy from a grassroots sports club perspective: An institutional logics approach
This study explores the impact of austerity on the London 2012 Summer Olympics participation legacy from a grassroots sports club perspective, utilising institutional theory. The study adopted a mixed methods approach including semi-structured interviews with 11 stakeholders involved in grassroots sport alongside a review of key policy documentation (n = 8) and relevant literature. In keeping with the institutional logics perspective, these data …
Du thé, des fromages et des cochons: Les "Lieux" De Qualité en Anthropologie De l'Alimentation
Au début des années 2000, Chaia Heller (2002), Elizabeth Barham (2003), puis Cristina Grasseni (2004) ont rendu compte dans leurs travaux de la place croissante occupée par la notion de « local » dans les transformations des pratiques alimentaires. Leurs recherches témoignaient des turbulences qui secouaient alors les sphères de la production et de la consommation mondiales (réactions des classes moyennes supérieures à l’industrialisation, luttes…
Leveraging accessible tourism development through mega-events, and the disability-attitude gap
Able-bodied, and increasingly people with disabilities, represent a key audience for mega-events; occasions that act as crucibles where social problems endemic to host destinations can be exposed and tackled through targeted social policy. Drawing on the social model of disability, the paper examines how Japan utilised Tokyo 2020 as a field configuring event to disrupt systems of ableist thinking and tackle physical and attitudinal barriers restr…
The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sport Sector: Examining the Gendered Organization Through Bourdieu’s Model of Field, Capital and Habitus
This article is the first to examine experiences of women with leadership roles in the U.K. Higher Education sport sector. We carried out detailed interviews with women leaders. We utilized Bourdieu’s model of habitus, capital, and field; Acker’s concept of “gendered organizations;” and Shilling’s concept of physical capital. Our findings show Higher Education operates more inclusively than the wider sport sector, which has the potential to advan…
Dis(abling) conceptions of disability sport: An analysis of institutional change in the Paralympic movement through the lens of boundary and practice work
Using unique archival evidence on the evolution of the Paralympic movement from the mid-1940s to 1989, this paper advances our understanding of how new organisational forms emerge. Our historical narrative identifies a shift from the Games born out of a medically based and rehabilitative cultural ethos to a sport-performance centred, corporate model embodied in the establishment of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) in 1989. We show how…
Political science (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (5 works) · Art (4 works) · French Urban and Social Studies (4 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works)