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Cushion, C, Huntley, T and Robert, T (2020) Disability sport coaching: You just coach the athlete not the disability. In: Wallis, J and Lambert, J, (eds.) Sports Coaching With Diverse Populations. Routledge. ISBN 9780367854799
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Abstract
Disability and parasport provide visibility and representation of disability and disabled people, providing a space where cultural understandings of ‘disability’ can be challenged and reshaped. As a result, disability and parasport is often assumed a ‘non-disabling’ site or associated with disability ‘empowerment’ and identity work, that is resisting and reconstructing negative disability-specific associations. The disability and parasport field, is therefore, replete with the encouragement and development of ‘athlete-first’ or ‘athlete-centred’ discourses. However, few critically interrogate these notions, and as a concept ‘athlete-centred’ has become ‘taken-for-granted,’ is presented uncritically and enthusiastically accepted as a ‘good’ for disability and parasport. The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to discourses on the social construction of disability in sport and through coaching. In particular, challenging the notion of ‘coach the athlete not the disability’ discourses as ‘empowerment,’ highlighting the sometimes unintended consequences of well-intended actions that reside in in social formations where power relations mediate.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Disability; Sport coaching; Paralympic |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC1200 Sports Medicine G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV561 Sports > GV711 Coaching G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV561 Sports |
| Divisions: | Sport & Exercise Sciences |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Jan 2022 12:38 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Jan 2022 12:38 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.4324/9780367854799 |
| Editors: | Wallis, J and Lambert, J |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/16196 |
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