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Embodiment, Identity and Disability Sport: An Ethnography of Elite Visually Impaired Athletes book cover

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Embodiment, Identity and Disability Sport An Ethnography of Elite Visually Impaired Athletes

By Ben Powis Copyright 2020
196 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

1. An introduction to visually impaired cricket: the opening delivery

2. Disability, sport and social theory

3. Visually impaired cricket and the senses

4. Disability sport and empowerment: from the playground to the Oval

5. Classification and the hierarchy of sight: valorisation of disabled sporting bodies

6. Identity formation through disability sport

7. Embodiment, identity and disability sport: the close of play

Biography

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.

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