Embodiment, Identity and Disability Sport
An Ethnography of Elite Visually Impaired Athletes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19922542 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ben Powi (0000-0003-4324-5668, corresponding author), Ben Powis |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 186 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Embodiment, Identity and Disability Sport (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429317675 |
| OpenAlex | W4234694282 |
| Open Library | OL28075507M |
| ISBN | 9780429317675 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
This book investigates the complex relationship between embodiment, identity and disability sport, based on ethnographic research with an international-level visually impaired cricket team. Alongside issues of empowerment, classification and valorisation, it conceptualises the sensuous dimension of being in disability sport and challenges the idealised notion of the sporting body. It explores the players’ lived experiences of participating and competing in an elite disabled sport culture and uses an embodied theoretical approach drawing upon sociology, phenomenology and contemporary disability theory to examine aspects of this previously unexamined research "site," both on and off the pitch. Written in a way that values and accurately represents the participants’ traditionally marginalised voices, the book analyses the role that elite disability sport plays in the construction of identity and helps us to better understand the relationships between disability, sport and wider society. Embodiment, Identity and Disability Sport is essential reading for any student, researcher, practitioner or policymaker working in disability sport, and a source of useful new perspectives for anybody with an interest in the sociology of sport or disability studies
Aesthetics · Art · Identity (music) · Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society · Aspect sociologique · Blind athletes · Blind-cricket players · Cricket for people with visual disabilities · Group identity · Handicap · Identité collective · Recreation · Social aspects · Social Identification · Sociology of disability · Sociology of Sports · Sportifs aveugles · Sports & Recreation
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Building bridges
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Activism for intersectional justice in sport sociology
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2.8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |