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 …

Care is a dirty word for many in our communities.“Caregiving” has become a euphemism for
often-indifferent, under-funded labor that is done to our bodies to (barely) enable our …

The suggestion that recreation needs to reaffirm historic values has become a common
narrative throughout Canada's contemporary recreation literature. A central assumption …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the problem of exclusion and the solution of
inclusion have been discursively produced within A Framework for Recreation in Canada …

Abstract The Paralympic Movement is widely constructed as part of the global movement for
empowering people with disabilities. This chapter critiques this claim by offering an historical …

“Dinner table experience” describes the uniquely crip affect evoked by deaf and disabled
people's childhood memories of sitting at the dinner table, witnessing conversations …

The experiences of disabled students, faculty, and staff in Canadian higher education have
not been thoroughly documented in the literature. As such, academic ableism generally, and …

The polarization of language choices for deaf children and youth–that is, spoken English or
American Sign Language (ASL)–encourages competition in deaf education for resources …

There are a number of ways that adaptive physical activity (APA) practice can perpetuate or
perpetrate trauma or mental distress. In this chapter, I name some of the traumatic practices …

In recent years, recreation scholars and professionals began calling for a return to municipal
recreation's historical roots as a “public good.” Blaming neoliberal ideology for the current …