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Karen P. DePauw, Ph.D. Vice President & Dean for Graduate Education Professor, Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise and Department of Sociology The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Reflections and musings 20+ years later VISTA conference - September 2019

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Page 1: The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Reflections and …...To conclude and more •Sport is a highly visible and influential social institution •Body, ability and disability are social

Karen P. DePauw, Ph.D.Vice President & Dean for Graduate Education Professor, Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise and Department of Sociology

The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Reflections and musings 20+ years later

VISTA conference - September 2019

Page 2: The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Reflections and …...To conclude and more •Sport is a highly visible and influential social institution •Body, ability and disability are social

• Focal point of identity • Medium through which messages of

identity are transmitted• Focus on body because it is the means

through which identity is defined, viewed and perceived

Body

• Identified and judged primarily through one’s body

• Heightened attention to body• Conspicuous• Compared to “normal” and “perfect” body

Individuals with disabilities

the stare and spectacle

Page 4: The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Reflections and …...To conclude and more •Sport is a highly visible and influential social institution •Body, ability and disability are social

Rasso Bruckert

Page 5: The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Reflections and …...To conclude and more •Sport is a highly visible and influential social institution •Body, ability and disability are social

• Reflection of society & societal values

• Reproduction of status quo & social inequality

• Site for resistance & production of social equality

Sport

Sport has contributed to the social construction of

• normal• disability• body and • sporting body

Page 7: The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Reflections and …...To conclude and more •Sport is a highly visible and influential social institution •Body, ability and disability are social

“Fit” within traditional model of sport

who is in and who is out

Page 8: The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Reflections and …...To conclude and more •Sport is a highly visible and influential social institution •Body, ability and disability are social

DePauw, K.P. (1997). The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Cultural Contexts and “Sporting Bodies’, Quest, 49, 416-430.

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AbilityPerfectBeauty

Athleticism Normal

Images of ‘sporting body’

Page 10: The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Reflections and …...To conclude and more •Sport is a highly visible and influential social institution •Body, ability and disability are social

• Reflection of society & societal values

• Reproduction of status quo & social inequality

• Site for resistance & production of social equality

Sport

Sport as site for access, equity & social change ….

Page 12: The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Reflections and …...To conclude and more •Sport is a highly visible and influential social institution •Body, ability and disability are social

RehabilitationFreak ShowEmpowerment

Views of disability sport

Soeder, 1995

Page 13: The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Reflections and …...To conclude and more •Sport is a highly visible and influential social institution •Body, ability and disability are social

DePauw, K.P. (1997). The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Cultural Contexts and “Sporting Bodies’, Quest, 49, 416-430.

Invisible: invisibility of disability in sport

Visible: visibility of disability in sport

Visible as athletes in sport

Page 14: The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Reflections and …...To conclude and more •Sport is a highly visible and influential social institution •Body, ability and disability are social

the paradigm shift

views of body and ability

Page 15: The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Reflections and …...To conclude and more •Sport is a highly visible and influential social institution •Body, ability and disability are social

evolving image of (dis)Ability

Page 16: The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Reflections and …...To conclude and more •Sport is a highly visible and influential social institution •Body, ability and disability are social

Page 17: The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Reflections and …...To conclude and more •Sport is a highly visible and influential social institution •Body, ability and disability are social

“Fit” within Paralympic model of sport?

who is in and who is out

equity issues in disability sport

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Intersection of gender and disabilityType of impairment

Severity of impairmentSport event

Socio-economic status/global location??

equity issues in disability sport

Page 19: The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Reflections and …...To conclude and more •Sport is a highly visible and influential social institution •Body, ability and disability are social

Ableization of “para” sport?

Page 20: The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Reflections and …...To conclude and more •Sport is a highly visible and influential social institution •Body, ability and disability are social

Sport as site for access, equity & social change ….

Page 21: The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Reflections and …...To conclude and more •Sport is a highly visible and influential social institution •Body, ability and disability are social

Make for an inclusive world through Para sport

Vision of the IPC

To conclude and more

• Sport is a highly visible and influential social institution • Body, ability and disability are social constructs

portrayed through a ‘sporting body’• Views of ability have changed through the inclusion of

‘others’ in competitive sport • Views of disability have changed due to the presence of

athletes with disabilities in competitive sport

• To what extent have we achieved institutional change? or social deconstruction of able?

• How do we move meaningfully to inclusion?

Page 23: The (In)Visibility of DisAbility: Reflections and …...To conclude and more •Sport is a highly visible and influential social institution •Body, ability and disability are social

A day at the beach:A walk in the sand

words and actions do matter…

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Reflections and musings

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