Advanced search
Publication Cover
Sport in Society
Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics
Volume 14, 2011 - Issue 5
Submit an article Journal homepage
1,654
Views
22
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

‘Tactical athletes’: the United States Paralympic Military Program and the mobilization of the disabled soldier/athlete

Callie Batts Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
&
David L. Andrews Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 553-568 | Published online: 15 Jul 2011

Citations (22)

Keep up to date with the latest research on this topic with citation updates for this article.

Subscribe to citation updates

Read on this site (7)

Eva Graae Krause & Mette N. Svendsen. (2023) From able-bodied soldier to disabled veteran: moral striving among Danish wounded veterans. Critical Military Studies 0:0, pages 1-19.
Read now
Chen Chen. (2023) Sport and imperialism today: time for an(other) anti-imperialist front. Sport in Society 0:0, pages 1-22.
Read now
Emma Pullen & Michael Silk. (2020) Disability, Masculinity, Militarism: The Paralympics and the Cultural (Re-)production of the Para-athlete-soldier. Journal of War & Culture Studies 13:4, pages 444-461.
Read now
Emma Pullen & Michael Silk. (2020) Gender, technology and the ablenational Paralympic body politic. Cultural Studies 34:3, pages 466-488.
Read now
Sarah Bulmer & Maya Eichler. (2017) Unmaking militarized masculinity: veterans and the project of military-to-civilian transition. Critical Military Studies 3:2, pages 161-181.
Read now
Joanna Tidy. (2015) Forces Sauces and Eggs for Soldiers: food, nostalgia, and the rehabilitation of the British military. Critical Military Studies 1:3, pages 220-232.
Read now
Anthony Bush, Michael Silk, Jill Porter & P. David Howe. (2013) Disability [sport] and discourse: stories within the Paralympic legacy. Reflective Practice 14:5, pages 632-647.
Read now

Articles from other publishers (15)

Sara H. Olsen, Stephanie J. Cork, Mollie M. Greenberg & Erica Gavel. 2023. Sport and Physical Culture in Global Pandemic Times. Sport and Physical Culture in Global Pandemic Times 269 293 .
Brad West. (2022) Militarizing politics of recognition through the Invictus Games: post-heroic exalting of the armed forces. American Journal of Cultural Sociology 10:4, pages 596-619.
Crossref
Emma Pullen. (2021) Materiality, mediation and affective encounters: ‘Rising Phoenix’ and the cultural representation of disability. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 57:6, pages 845-862.
Crossref
Nick Caddick, Linda Cooper, Lauren Godier-McBard & Matt Fossey. (2020) Hierarchies of wounding: Media framings of ‘combat’ and ‘non-combat’ injury. Media, War & Conflict 14:4, pages 503-521.
Crossref
Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson, Michael Silk, P. David Howe & Carla Filomena Silva. (2021) Extraordinary Normalcy, Ableist Rehabilitation, and Sporting Ablenationalism: The Cultural (Re)Production of Paralympic Disability Narratives. Sociology of Sport Journal 38:3, pages 209-217.
Crossref
David McGillivray, Hugh O’Donnell, Gayle McPherson & Laura Misener. (2019) Repurposing the (Super)Crip: Media Representations of Disability at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Communication & Sport 9:1, pages 3-32.
Crossref
Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson & Michael Silk. (2019) (Re-)presenting the Paralympics: Affective Nationalism and the “Able-Disabled”. Communication & Sport 8:6, pages 715-737.
Crossref
Haroon Malik & Anam Mazhar. (2019) EyeCom: an IoT based affordable wearable solution for paralyzed people to interact with machines. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing 11:6, pages 2325-2336.
Crossref
Leila Dawney. (2019) Affective War: Wounded Bodies as Political Technologies. Body & Society 25:3, pages 49-72.
Crossref
NICK CADDICK, HELEN CULLEN, AMANDA CLARKE, MATT FOSSEY, MICHAEL HILL, GILL MCGILL, JANE GREAVES, TERI TAYLOR, CATHERINE MEADS & MATTHEW D KIERNAN. (2018) Ageing, limb-loss and military veterans: a systematic review of the literature. Ageing and Society 39:8, pages 1582-1610.
Crossref
Andrea Bundon. 2019. The Suffering Body in Sport. The Suffering Body in Sport 71 87 .
Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson, Michael Silk & Richard Scullion. (2018) Re-presenting the Paralympics: (contested) philosophies, production practices and the hypervisibility of disability. Media, Culture & Society 41:4, pages 465-481.
Crossref
Nick Caddick, Gill McGill, Jane Greaves & Matthew D. Kiernan. (2018) Resisting decline? Narratives of independence among aging limbless veterans. Journal of Aging Studies 46, pages 24-31.
Crossref
Andrew Webb & André Richelieu. (2018) Sanctioning, qualifying, and manipulating: dramatic phases in president’s letters. Society and Business Review 13:1, pages 61-79.
Crossref
Joanna Tidy. 2017. The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military. The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military 509 523 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.