Disability in the Global Sport Arena

Preface Bruce Kidd 1. Introduction: Global organizational change in sport and the shifting meaning of disability Jill M. Le Clair 2. Disability rights and change in a global perspective Marcia H. Rioux 3. 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 and Robert Steadward 4. Transformed identity: from disabled person to global Paralympian Jill M. Le Clair 5. 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 and David Lenox 6. Deaflympics and the Paralympics: eradicating misconceptions Donalda Ammons and Jordan Eickman 7. South Africa, apartheid and the Paralympic Games Ian Brittain 8. Contested issues in research on the media coverage of female Paralympic athletes Athanasios (Sakis) Pappous, Anne Marcellini and Eric de Leseleuc 9. China and the development of sport for persons with a disability, 1978 - 2008: a review Sun Shuhan, Yan Rui, Mao Ailin, Chao Liu and Jing Tang 10. Living disability and restructuring International Paralympic Committee sport in Oceania: the challenge of perceptions, spatial dispersal and limited resources Jagdish C. Maharaj 11. Physical activity and sport as a tool to include disabled children in Kenyan schools Jose Frantz, Julie S. Phillips, Joseph M. Matheri and Joanne J. Kibet 12. Contested perspectives of 'marvel' and 'mockery' in disability and sport: Accra, Ghana Anne-Marie Bourgeois 13. The use of sport by a Health Promoting School to address community conflict Patricia Struthers 14. 'Bladerunner or boundary runner'?: Oscar Pistorius, cyborg transgressions and strategies of containment Moss E. Norman and Fiona Moola 15. Participation rates of developing countries in international disability sport: a summary and the importance of statistics for understanding and planning Jackie Lauff 16. New direction: disability sport in Malaysia Selina Khoo 17. Risk of catastrophic injury in sports and recreation Charles H. Tator 18. Reflections on the participation of Muslim women in disability sport: hijab, Burkiniw, modesty and changing strategies Sima Limoochi with Jill M. Le Clair