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Author Powis, Ben, author.

Title Embodiment, identity and disability sport : an ethnography of elite visually impaired athletes / Ben Powis
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (186 pages) : illustrations
Series Disability sport and physical activity cultures
Disability sport and physical activity cultures.
Contents An introduction to visually impaired cricket : the opening delivery -- Disability, sport and social theory -- The sensuous experiences of visually impaired cricket -- Elite disability sport and empowerment : from the playground to the oval -- Classification, valorisation and the hierarchy of sight -- Identity formation through elite disability sport -- Embodiment, identity and disability sport : the close of play
Summary "This book investigates the complex relationship between embodiment, identity and disability sport, based on ethnographic research with an international-level visually impaired cricket team. Alongside issues of empowerment, classification and valorisation, it conceptualises the sensuous dimension of being in disability sport and challenges the idealised notion of the sporting body. It explores the players' lived experiences of participating and competing in an elite disabled sport culture, and uses an embodied theoretical approach drawing upon sociology, phenomenology and contemporary disability theory to examine aspects of this previously unexamined research 'site', both on and off the pitch. Written in a way that values and accurately represents the participants' traditionally marginalised voices, the book analyses the role that elite disability sport plays in the construction of identity and helps us to better understand the relationships between disability, sport and wider society. Embodiment, Identity and Disability Sport is essential reading for any student, researcher, practitioner or policy-maker working in disability sport, and a source of useful new perspectives for anybody with an interest in the sociology of sport or disability studies"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Ben Powis is Lecturer at the School of Sport, Health and Social Sciences, Solent University, UK. His research interests lie in the sociology of disability sport, the embodied experiences of visually impaired people in sport and physical activity and investigating the significance of sensuous sporting experiences
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 03, 2020)
Subject Group identity.
Sociology of disability.
Blind-cricket players.
Blind athletes.
Cricket for people with visual disabilities -- Social aspects
Social Identification
group identity.
SPORTS & RECREATION / General
SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports
Blind-cricket players
Blind athletes
Group identity
Sociology of disability
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019052963
ISBN 9780429317675
0429317670
9781000046946
100004694X
9781000046878
1000046877
9781000046809
100004680X