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Celebrating imperfection: sport, disability and celebrity culture

P. David Howe School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Andrew Parker Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Gloucestershire, UK
Pages 270-282 | Received 29 Nov 2010, Accepted 03 Sep 2012, Published online: 04 Oct 2012

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Tom Gibbons & Stuart Braye. (2019) Christianity and social scientific perspectives on sport: introduction to the special issue. Sport in Society 22:2, pages 201-208.
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P. David Howe & Carla Filomena Silva. (2018) The fiddle of using the Paralympic Games as a vehicle for expanding [dis]ability sport participation. Sport in Society 21:1, pages 125-136.
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Leslie Swartz, Jason Bantjes, Bradley Knight, Greg Wilmot & Wayne Derman. (2018) “They don’t understand that we also exist”: South African participants in competitive disability sport and the politics of identity. Disability and Rehabilitation 40:1, pages 35-41.
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NickJ. Watson. (2014) Special Olympians as a “Prophetic Sign” to the Modern Sporting Babel. Journal of Disability & Religion 18:1, pages 24-48.
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P. David Howe & Andrew Parker. (2014) Disability as a Path to Spiritual Enlightenment: An Ethnographic Account of the Significance of Religion in Paralympic Sport. Journal of Disability & Religion 18:1, pages 8-23.
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Mark Falcous & Georgia Scott. (2022) New Zealand's princess of the pool: Post-ableism and the media narrativisation of Sophie Pascoe. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 58:5, pages 889-907.
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Yoko Kanemasu. (2021) Rugby, Nationalism, and Deaf Athlete Counterhegemony: Insights From the Case of Fiji. Sociology of Sport Journal 38:2, pages 149-157.
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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.
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Carla Filomena Silva & P. David Howe. (2018) The Social Empowerment of Difference. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America 29:2, pages 397-408.
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P. David Howe & Carla Filomena Silva. (2017) The cyborgification of paralympic sport. Movement & Sport Sciences - Science & Motricité:97, pages 17-25.
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P. David Howe. 2016. Training and Coaching the Paralympic Athlete. Training and Coaching the Paralympic Athlete 108 121 .
Andrew Parker & Nick J. Watson. (2015) Sport, Celebrity and Religion: Christianity, Morality and the Tebow Phenomenon. Studies in World Christianity 21:3, pages 223-238.
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David EJ Purdue & P David Howe. (2013) Plotting a Paralympic field: An elite disability sport competition viewed through Bourdieu’s sociological lens. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 50:1, pages 83-97.
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