Sport in Society, Volume 14, Issue 9 (2011)

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Disability in the global sport arena: a sporting chance

Miscellany

Preface
Bruce Kidd
Pages: 1069-1071
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Introduction

Global organizational change in sport and the shifting meaning of disability
Jill M. Le Clair
Pages: 1072-1093
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Disability rights and change in a global perspective
Marcia H. Rioux
Pages: 1094-1098
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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The Paralympic Games and 60 years of change (1948–2008): unification and restructuring from a disability and medical model to sport-based competition
David Legg & Robert Steadward
Pages: 1099-1115
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Transformed identity: from disabled person to global Paralympian
Jill M. Le Clair
Pages: 1116-1130
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Promoting social inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities through sport: Special Olympics International, global sport initiatives and strategies
Coreen M. Harada, Gary N. Siperstein, Robin C. Parker & David Lenox
Pages: 1131-1148
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Deaflympics and the Paralympics: eradicating misconceptions
Donalda Ammons & Jordan Eickman
Pages: 1149-1164
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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South Africa, apartheid and the Paralympic Games
Ian Brittain
Pages: 1165-1181
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Contested issues in research on the media coverage of female Paralympic athletes
Athanasios (Sakis) Pappous, Anne Marcellini & Eric de Léséleuc
Pages: 1182-1191
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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China and the development of sport for persons with a disability, 1978–2008: a review
SUN Shuhan, YAN Rui, MAO Ailin, CHAO Liu & JING Tang
Pages: 1192-1210
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Living disability and restructuring International Paralympic Committee sport in Oceania: the challenge of perceptions, spatial dispersal and limited resources
Jagdish C. Maharaj
Pages: 1211-1226
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Physical activity and sport as a tool to include disabled children in Kenyan schools
José Frantz, Julie S. Phillips, Joseph M. Matheri & Joanne J. Kibet
Pages: 1227-1236
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Contested perspectives of ‘marvel’ and ‘mockery’ in disability and sport: Accra, Ghana
Anne-Marie Bourgeois
Pages: 1237-1250
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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The use of sport by a Health Promoting School to address community conflict
Patricia Struthers
Pages: 1251-1264
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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‘Bladerunner or boundary runner’?: Oscar Pistorius, cyborg transgressions and strategies of containment
Moss E. Norman & Fiona Moola
Pages: 1265-1279
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Participation rates of developing countries in international disability sport: a summary and the importance of statistics for understanding and planning
Jackie Lauff
Pages: 1280-1284
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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New direction: disability sport in Malaysia
Selina Khoo
Pages: 1285-1290
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Risk of catastrophic injury in sports and recreation
Charles H. Tator
Pages: 1291-1299
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Reflections on the participation of Muslim women in disability sport: hijab, Burkini®, modesty and changing strategies
Sima Limoochi & Jill M. Le Clair
Pages: 1300-1309
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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