Empower, inspire, achieve
(Dis)empowerment and the Paralympic Games
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12314003 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David E J Purdue (Loughborough University), David Purdue (Loughborough University, corresponding author), P David Howe (0000-0002-1555-3746, Loughborough University) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 903-916 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disability & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0968-7599 • E-ISSN: 1360-0508 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09687599.2012.695576 |
| OpenAlex | W2113519789 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
| References cited | 19 |
This paper undertakes a critical examination of the International Paralympic Committee's desire to use the Paralympic Games as a vehicle to empower individuals with a disability. We achieve this by applying Pierre Bourdieu's sociological concepts of habitus and capital to semi-structured interviews conducted with Paralympic stakeholders. Interviewees included current and former Paralympians, active and retired disability sport administrators, social researchers of disability and disability sport, and disability rights advocates. The paper starts by highlighting the distinctive cultural context of the Paralympic Movement, before exploring the potential for the Paralympic Games to act as a source of empowerment, through the creation of sporting and lifestyle role-models. Findings suggest Paralympians are considered most likely to gain empowerment from the Paralympic Games, yet their specific impairment, athletic lifestyles and failure to identify as 'disabled' were identified as potentially limiting the ability of the Paralympic Games to empower others. Keywords: BourdieudisabilityempowermentParalympicsociologysport
Context (archaeology · Cultural capital · Disability studies · Empowerment · Habitus · Limiting · Political science · Public relations · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Disability Rights and Representation · Engineering · Gender Studies · Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport · Law · Psychology · Spinal Cord Injury Research
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Outside Horses, Inside Men
The social legacy potential of the Paralympic Games
Assemblage analysis of disability support
Supercrip in Motion
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Getting ahead while retaining ethnic salience
Coaches of elite athletes with disability
“2032 Is a Dream for Us”
Framing disability in sport journalism
“If only balls could talk…”
Are mega-events a solution to address physical inactivity? Interrogating the London 2012 Paralympic sport participation legacies among people with disabilities
We are playing for England, we wear the same shirt; just because I have a disability, it doesn’t make me any different
The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games
An 11-country analysis of newspaper coverage of the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games
The women who feed us
Moving Beyond Models
Who’s In and Who Is Out? Legitimate Bodies Within the Paralympic Games
Cultivating cultural capital and transforming cultural fields
Retired para athletes hold limited leadership roles in Canadian national sport federations
Changes in the Number of Medal Events, Sport Events, and Classes During the Paralympic Games
Research in Communication, Disability, and Sport
Voice, vlogs and visibility
The problem with inspiration porn
Young athletes and their coaches
Challenging (platformisation) invisibilities through humour
The Paralympics on YouTube
Negotiation and solidarity at cultural borders in sport
The role of sport-based social networks in the management of long-term health conditions
Plotting a Paralympic field
It's not about disability, I want to win as many medals as possible
The International Olympic Committee-International Paralympic Committee Relationship
An (In)convenient Truce? Paralympic Stakeholders' Reflections on the Olympic-Paralympic Relationship
Honey or Vinegar? Athletes With Disabilities Discuss Strategies for Advocacy Within the Paralympic Movement
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Theorizing Community for Sport Management Research and Practice
The experiences of attending an international veteran sporting competition and preparatory camp for Team Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian conflict
Heroines of Sport
Disability Rights and Wrongs
Nothing About Us Without UsDisability Oppression and Empowerment
Disability Sport
Powerlessness, Empowerment, and Health
The (1n)Visibility of DisAbility
Distinction
The Forms of Capital
The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement
The Politics of Disablement
(Dis)empowering Paralympic histories
An Ideal Misconstrued
Disability, sport and society
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
Pushing Forward
| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2.85 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |