Sliding to Reverse Ableism: An Ethnographic Exploration of (Dis)ability in Sitting Volleyball
This paper illuminates the potential of diversely embodied sporting cultures to challenge ableism, the ideology of ability. Ableism constructs the able body as conditional to a life worth living, thus devaluing all those perceived as ‘dis’-abled. This hegemonic ideology develops...
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Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2019-05-01
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Series: | Societies |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/9/2/41 |