We are playing for England, we wear the same shirt; just because I have a disability, it doesn’t make me any different
Empowerment, Eliteness and Visually Impaired Cricket
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6144845 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ben Powi (0000-0003-4324-5668, Southampton Solent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 189-206 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal for Sport and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1613-8171 • E-ISSN: 2380-5919 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/16138171.2018.1459232 |
| OpenAlex | W2796720757 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 30 |
Drawing upon ethnographic research conducted with the England Visually Impaired Cricket Team, this article considers the extent to which participation in visually impaired cricket is an empowering practice. The topic of empowerment and disability sport are well debated; yet, the context of visually impaired cricket provides an original perspective. Using an embodied theoretical approach to disability sport, the participants' experiences of recreational visually impaired cricket and their transition to the elite national team are investigated to understand the multifaceted ways that empowerment is experienced. There is a specific focus upon how disability sport affects the participants' conceptualization and negotiation of their corporeality through the concepts of embodied reconceptualization of self and the restored self. Despite the players' empowering experiences, this article evaluates the consequences of forming an ever-closer relationship with the mainstream game and how the elite organizational approach to visually impaired cricket, introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), has irreversibly changed the empowering potential of the game
Advertising · Business · Cricket · Empowerment · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Visually impaired · Disability Rights and Representation · Gender Studies · Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Optometry
Disability Rights and Wrongs
The Lived Body
Qualitative Research Methods in Sport, Exercise and Health
Remaking the Body
Empower, inspire, achieve
(In)visibility
Presage of a paradigm shift? Beyond the social model of disability toward resistance theories of disability
Negotiating Identities through Disability Sport
(Un)Disciplined Bodies
Not Just Playing the Game
Meaning of Sport to Adults with Physical Disabilities
Embodied Experiences of Empowerment Among Female Tackle Football Players
Using thematic analysis in psychology
The Social Model of Disability and the Disappearing Body
Researching Society and Culture
Defining empowerment
The tail is wagging the dog
Sport, Spinal Cord Injury, Embodied Masculinities, and the Dilemmas of Narrative Identity
Disability and the Dedicated Wheelchair Athlete
An (In)convenient Truce? Paralympic Stakeholders' Reflections on the Olympic-Paralympic Relationship
Patients, Athletes, Freaks
Perceptions of Disability and their Impact upon Involvement in Sport for People with Disabilities at all Levels
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |