Transcending ‘Hoop Dreams’
Toward a consideration of corporeality, crossroads and intersections, and discursive possibilities in disability and theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19560464 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fiona J Moola (0000-0003-4904-7304, Concordia University, corresponding author), Moss E Norman (0000-0001-9651-3262, University of Manitoba) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 284-295 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1939-8441 • E-ISSN: 1939-845X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/2159676x.2012.685103 |
| OpenAlex | W2042555153 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 23 |
In modern cultures where ability is revered, the disabled body continues to engender both fear and fascination. While the sociology of sport and disability studies has made great conceptual strides, they have done so in relative isolation from one another. This has resulted in a dearth of empirical evidence regarding the sporting lives of disabled athletes. Dr Ronald Berger’s Hoop Dreams – that is, a critical qualitative life history investigation of wheelchair athletes at the University of Wisconson-Whitewater – is particularly timely in this regard and offers compelling and novel insights into the meaning of sport for the participants. In this critical review for students and scholars of disability and sport, we appraise Berger’s work and applaud, in particular, his historically rich discussion of disability, theoretical command of the social model of disability and great methodological creativity. We suggest that considering carnality and corporeality, crossroads and intersections and discursive possibilities may not only point toward novel and exciting lines of enquiry which extend disability and sport scholarship like Berger’s, but expose the ultimately fragile and tenuous nature of the ability–disability sport categories that we are so invested in
Ableism · Aesthetics · Athletes · Creativity · Disability studies · Empirical research · Epistemology · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Scholarship · Sociology · Disability Rights and Representation · Gender Studies · Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport · Law · Musculoskeletal Disorders and Rehabilitation · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Making of High Performance Athletes
Disability Sport
Bodies that Matter
Personal and Political
Archaeology of Knowledge
The ‘inclusion’ of elite athletes with disabilities in the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games
Emancipating play
When identities collide
Disability Studies and Phenomenology
(Dis)empowering Paralympic histories
Becoming en‐wheeled
Life history methodology
Breaking the Boundaries of the Broken Body
Bodies That Matter
Sport, Spinal Cord Injury, Embodied Masculinities, and the Dilemmas of Narrative Identity
Constructing Diverse Sports Opportunities for People With Disabilities
Perceptions of Disability and their Impact upon Involvement in Sport for People with Disabilities at all Levels
The Complexity of Intersectionality
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0.75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |