Disability in the global sport arena : a sporting chance / edited by Jill M. Le Clair.

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.