TY  - BOOK
AU  - Le Clair,Jill M.
TI  - Disability in the global sport arena: a sporting chance 
T2  - Sport in the global society. Contemporary perspectives
SN  - 9780415488518 (hbk.)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Sports for people with disabilities
KW  - Sports administration
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface; Bruce Kidd --; Introduction : global organizational change in sport and the shifting meaning of disability; Jill M. Le Clair --; Disability rights and change in a global perspective; Marcia H. Rioux --; 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 --; Transformed identity : from disabled person to global Paralympian; Jill M. Le Clair --; Promoting social inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities through sport : Special Olympics International, global sport initiatives and strategies; Coreen M. Harada ... [et al.] --; Deaflympics and the Paralympics : eradicating misconceptions; Donalda Ammons and Jordan Eickman --; South Africa, apartheid and the Paralympic Games; Ian Brittain --; Contested issues in research on the media coverage of female Paralympic athletes; Athanasios (Sakis) Pappous, Anne Marcellini and Eric de Leseleuc --; China and the development of sport for persons with a disability, 1978-2008 : a review; Sun Shuhan ... [et al.] --; Living disability and restructuring International Paralympic Committee sport in Oceania : the challenge of perceptions, spatial dispersal and limited resources; Jagdish C. Maharaj --; Physical activity and sport as a tool to include disabled children in Kenyan schools; Jose Frantz ... [et al.] --; Contested perspectives of'marvel' and'mockery' in disability and sport : Accra, Ghana; Anne-Marie Bourgeois --; Use of sport by a health promoting school to address community conflict; Patricia Struthers --; 'Bladerunner or boundary runner'? : Oscar Pistorius, cyborg transgressions and strategies of containment; Moss E. Norman and Fiona Moola --; Participation rates of developing countries in international disability sport : a summary and the importance of statistics for understanding and planning; Jackie Lauff --; New direction : disability sport in Malaysia; Selina Khoo --; Risk of catastrophic injury in sports and recreation; Charles H. Tator --; Reflections on the participation of Muslim women in disability sport : hijab, Burkini, modesty and changing strategies; Sima Limoochi with Jill M. Le Clair
ER  -