Disability in the Global Sport Arena : A Sporting Chance (Paperback)

Preface  Bruce Kidd  1. Introduction: Global organizational change in sport and the shifting meaning of disability  Jill M. Le Clair  2. Disability rights and change in a global perspective  Marcia H. Rioux  3. The Paralympic Games and 60 years of change (1948 ? 2008): unification and restructuring from a disability and medical model to sport-based competition  David Legg and Robert Steadward  4. Transformed identity: from disabled person to global Paralympian  Jill M. Le Clair  5. Promoting social inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities through sport: Special Olympics International, global sport initiatives and strategies  Coreen M. Harada, Gary N. Siperstein, Robin C. Parker and David Lenox  6. Deaflympics and the Paralympics: eradicating misconceptions  Donalda Ammons and Jordan Eickman  7. South Africa, apartheid and the Paralympic Games  Ian Brittain  8. Contested issues in research on the media coverage of female Paralympic athletes  Athanasios (Sakis) Pappous, Anne Marcellini and Eric de Leseleuc  9. China and the development of sport for persons with a disability, 1978 ? 2008: a review Sun Shuhan, Yan Rui, Mao Ailin, Chao Liu and Jing Tang  10. Living disability and restructuring International Paralympic Committee sport in Oceania: the challenge of perceptions, spatial dispersal and limited resources  Jagdish C. Maharaj  11. Physical activity and sport as a tool to include disabled children in Kenyan schools  Jose Frantz, Julie S. Phillips, Joseph M. Matheri and Joanne J. Kibet  12. Contested perspectives of ‘marvel’ and ‘mockery’ in disability and sport: Accra, Ghana  Anne-Marie Bourgeois  13. The use of sport by a Health Promoting School to address community conflict  Patricia Struthers  14. ‘Bladerunner or boundary runner’?: Oscar Pistorius, cyborg transgressions and strategies of containment  Moss E. Norman and Fiona Moola  15. Participation rates of developing countries in international disability sport: a summary and the importance of statistics for understanding and planning  Jackie Lauff  16. New direction: disability sport in Malaysia  Selina Khoo  17. Risk of catastrophic injury in sports and recreation  Charles H. Tator  18. Reflections on the participation of Muslim women in disability sport: hijab, Burkiniw, modesty and changing strategies  Sima Limoochi with Jill M. Le Clair