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Disability, the Media and the Paralympic Games
Language: en
Pages: 345
Authors: Carolyn Jackson-Brown
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-04 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book focuses on the ground-breaking coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games by the UK’s publicly owned but commercially funded Channel 4 network, co
Reframing Disability?
Language: en
Pages: 283
Authors: Daniel Jackson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-05 - Publisher: Routledge

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The London 2012 Paralympic Games - the biggest, most accessible and best-attended games in the Paralympics' 64-year history - came with an explicit aim to "tran
The Paralympic Games Explained
Language: en
Pages: 247
Authors: Ian Brittain
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-01 - Publisher: Routledge

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The Paralympic Games is the second largest multi-sport festival on earth and an event which poses profound and challenging questions about the nature of sport,
The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: P. David Howe
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-02-19 - Publisher: Routledge

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Raising questions and debates crucial to students of social and disability studies, this book queries the Paralympic games' development as a positive one, and q
Athlete First
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: Steve Bailey
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-02-28 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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Today the Paralympic Movement is recognised as a global sporting phenomenon attracting thousands of athletes from an ever-increasing number of countries. Athlet