Approximately 1· 5 billion people worldwide live with a physical, mental, sensory, or
intellectual disability, about 80% of which are in low-income and middle-income countries …

The term 'inspiration porn'is associated with disability advocacy in general and the late
activist and comedian Stella Young in particular. It has come into widespread usage over the …

This article provides a critical overview of the viability of the “supercrip” iconography as an
appropriate representation of Paralympic athletes. It focuses on its validity as a vehicle for …

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, disability and society …

As a response to real or imagined subordination, popular culture reflects the everyday
experience of ordinary people and has the capacity to subvert the hegemonic order …

How we explain and understand disability matters. In this chapter, we examine one way of
explaining and understanding disability through a models approach. Two traditional models …

The International Paralympic Committee, UK Government, and the Organizing Committee for
the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games all contended that the London 2012 …

The inclusion of athletes with a disability into the Olympic Games has been a long-standing
issue within the Paralympic Movement. This article reviews the history of including athletes …

This article offers an exploratory analysis of the opinions of disabled activists towards the
Paralympic Games. With the use of a qualitative online survey, the work focuses on the …

In this autoethnography, I weave personal narrative with Foucauldian and critical disability
theory in order to interrogate the role of parasport in the formation, disciplining and …