'It's not about disability, I want to win as many medals as possible': The social construction of disability in high-performance coaching
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
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| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Leeds Beckett University, UK, University of Waikato, New Zealand, Liverpool John Moores University, UK, Loughborough University |
| ANO | 2020 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | International Review for the Sociology of Sport |
| ISSN | 1012-6902 |
| E-ISSN | 1461-7218 |
| EDITORA | Sage Publications Ltd |
| DOI | 10.1177/1012690218797526 |
| CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
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Resumo
This article draws on the theoretical concepts of Pierre Bourdieu to provide a critical analysis of the social construction of disability in high-performance sport coaching. Data were generated using a qualitative cross-case comparative methodology, comprising 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in high-performance disability sport, and interviews with coaches and athletes from a cross-section of Paralympic sports. We discuss how in both cases 'disability' was assimilated into the 'performance logic' of the sporting field as a means of maximising symbolic capital. Furthermore, coaches were socialised into a prevailing legitimate culture in elite disability sport that was reflective of ableist, performance-focused and normative ideologies about disability. In this article we unpack the assumptions that underpin coaching in disability sport, and by extension use sport as a lens to problematise the construction of disability in specific social formations across coaching cultures. In so doing, we raise critical questions about the interrelation of disability and sport.