(Un)imaginable (Para-)athletes: A Discourse Analysis of Athletics Websites in Canada Peers, Danielle, Konoval, Timothy and Marsh Naturkach, Rebecca 2020, (Un)imaginable (Para-)athletes: A Discourse Analysis of Athletics Websites in Canada, Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 112-128, doi: 10.1123/apaq.2019-0062. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title (Un)imaginable (Para-)athletes: A Discourse Analysis of Athletics Websites in Canada Author(s) Peers, Danielle Konoval, Timothy orcid.org/0000-0002-2638-8125 Marsh Naturkach, Rebecca Journal name Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly Volume number 37 Issue number 1 Start page 112 End page 128 Total pages 17 Publisher Human Kinetics Place of publication Champaign, Ill. Publication date 2020 ISSN 0736-5829 1543-2777 Keyword(s) Foucault inclusion integration para-athletics parasport Summary This Foucauldian discourse analysis engages DePauw’s theory of disability and visibility to examine the construction of para-athletes within the websites of Canada’s “fully integrated” athletics sport system. The authors found that para-athletes remain largely unimaginable within most athletics websites. When present, para-athletes are often only imagined as marginal participants, or marginalized through medical and charitable discourses. The authors offer examples of para-athletes being reimagined primarily as athletes, and some examples where (para-)athletics was reimagined by identifying and removing barriers to full participation. The authors close with some learning points that may enable sport practitioners to change how they discursively construct para-athletes and thus contribute to a less marginalizing and exclusionary sport system. Language eng DOI 10.1123/apaq.2019-0062 Indigenous content off Field of Research 1106 Human Movement and Sports Sciences 1701 Psychology HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30143292 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 28 Sep 2020, 06:41:43 EST Mon, 28 Sep 2020, 11:17:30 EST Tue, 29 Sep 2020, 05:00:24 EST Tue, 29 Sep 2020, 07:46:25 EST Tue, 12 Jan 2021, 05:08:25 EST Wed, 20 Jan 2021, 13:46:06 EST Wed, 20 Jan 2021, 13:49:11 EST Thu, 21 Jan 2021, 07:13:00 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 26 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 28 Sep 2020, 11:17:30 EST

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