Disability in the global sport arena :  a sporting chance / 
edited by Jill M. Le Clair. 
 - London :  Routledge,  2012. 
 - x, 247 p. :  ill., maps ;  26 cm. 
 - Sport in the global society. Contemporary perspectives .
 - Sport in the global society.  Contemporary perspectives. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction : global organizational change in sport and the shifting meaning of disability /  Disability rights and change in a global perspective /  Paralympic Games and 60 years of change (1948-2008) : unification and restructuring from a disability and medical model to sport-based competition /  Transformed identity : from disabled person to global Paralympian /  Promoting social inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities through sport : Special Olympics International, global sport initiatives and strategies /  Deaflympics and the Paralympics : eradicating misconceptions /  South Africa, apartheid and the Paralympic Games /  Contested issues in research on the media coverage of female Paralympic athletes /  Bruce Kidd --  Jill M. Le Clair --  Marcia H. Rioux --  David Legg and Robert Steadward --  Jill M. Le Clair --  Coreen M. Harada ... [et al.] --  Donalda Ammons and Jordan Eickman --  Ian Brittain --  Athanasios (Sakis) Pappous, Anne Marcellini and Eric de Leseleuc --  Preface /  China and the development of sport for persons with a disability, 1978-2008 : a review /  Living disability and restructuring International Paralympic Committee sport in Oceania : the challenge of perceptions, spatial dispersal and limited resources /  Physical activity and sport as a tool to include disabled children in Kenyan schools /  Contested perspectives of'marvel' and'mockery' in disability and sport : Accra, Ghana /  Use of sport by a health promoting school to address community conflict /  'Bladerunner or boundary runner'? : Oscar Pistorius, cyborg transgressions and strategies of containment /  Participation rates of developing countries in international disability sport : a summary and the importance of statistics for understanding and planning /  New direction : disability sport in Malaysia /  Risk of catastrophic injury in sports and recreation /  Reflections on the participation of Muslim women in disability sport : hijab, Burkini, modesty and changing strategies /  Sun Shuhan ... [et al.] --  Jagdish C. Maharaj --  Jose Frantz ... [et al.] --  Anne-Marie Bourgeois --  Patricia Struthers --  Moss E. Norman and Fiona Moola --  Jackie Lauff --  Selina Khoo --  Charles H. Tator --  Sima Limoochi with Jill M. Le Clair. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415488518 (hbk.)  RM448.10 0415488516 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sports for people with disabilities.<br/>Sports administration.