Sliding to Reverse Ableism: An Ethnographic Exploration of (Dis)ability in Sitting Volleyball

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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Main Authors: Carla Filomena Silva, P. David Howe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-05-01
Series:Societies
Subjects:
ableism
ethnography
sitting volleyball
impairment
disability
habitus
situated action
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/9/2/41

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