Main description:

A resource for progressing current research into disability sport.
Brings together an eclectic mix of contributing authors. This includes disabled and able-bodied academics, and particularly for the sections in which we address intersectionality, authors who themselves have lived experiences of living with multiple identities.
Bridge important gaps between disability studies and sport sociology through offering thorough interrogations between theory, method and empiricism progressing research in the field.

Contents:

1. Researching Disability Sport: An Introduction, Part I: Foundations for Disability Sport Scholarship, 2. Theorising Disability Sport, 3. Cultural Politics, Disability Sport and Physical Activity Research, 4. What Are We Doing Here? Confessional Tales of Non-Disabled Researchers in Disability Sport, 5. Barriers to Disability Sport Research and the Global South: A Personal View, Part II: Disability, Sport and Intersectionality, 6. Disabled Female Sporting Bodies: Reflections on (In)Visibility of disAbility in Sport, 7. Playing, Passing, and Pageantry: A Collaborative Autoethnography on Sport, Disability, Sexuality, and Belonging, 8. Race, Disability and Sport: The Experience of Black Deaf Individuals, 9. Disability and Ageing: Dads, Sons, Sport and Impairment, Part III: From Theory to Practice: Contemporary Issues in Disability Sport, 10. Seeing without Sight: The Athlete/Guide Partnership in Disability Sport, 11. Confronting Ableism from within: Reflections on Anti-Ableism Research in Disability Sport, 12. Exercise, Rehabilitation and Posthuman Disability Studies: Four Responses, 13. Para-Sport Activism in South Korea, 14. Conclusion: The Future of Disability Sport Research