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More Than Medals : A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan / by Frost, Dennis J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The Paralympic Movement in Japan : An Imperfect Success Story -- Tokyo's Other Games : The Origins and Impact of the 1964 Paralympics -- Lost Games : The Far East and South Pacific (FESPIC) Games for the Disabled, 1975-2006 -- Japan's "Cradle of Disability Sports" : Ōita and the International Wheelchair Marathon, 1981- -- A Turning Point : The 1998 Winter Paralympics in Nagano -- Athletes First: Preparing for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Paralympic Games -- Coda : The 2021 Problem.…”
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Leveraging Disability Sport Events : Impacts, Promises, and Possibilities / by Misener, Laura, McPherson, Gayle, McGillivray, David, Legg, David

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Accessibility, Inclusion, and Diversity in Critical Event Studies /

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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability : Looking Towards the Future: Volume 2 /

Table of Contents: “…Kulkarni); Part Three, Disciplines of Complexity and Innovation; Chapter 12: Complexity and disability: drawing from a complexity approach to think through disability at the intersections (Louisa Smith and Leanne Dowse); Chapter 13: Towards a crip methodology for critical disability studies (Louise Hickman and David Serlin); Chapter 14: Inserting disability pedagogies in mutable configurations of space and interaction (Brian Goldfarb and Suzanne Stolz); Chapter 15: Mobilising historical knowledge: Locating the disability archive (Natalie Spagnuolo); Chapter 16: Cripping immunity: Disability and the immune self (Travis Chi Wing Lau); Chapter 17: Theologising disability: Intersections of critique and collaboration (Sarah Jean Barton); Part Four, Perspectives of Place; Chapter 18: Hello from the other side: Why Iran remains excluded from global disability studies (Negin Hosseini Goodrich); Chapter 19: Misrecognising persons with disabilities in the Global South: The need for a comparative disability studies framework (Stephen Meyers); Chapter 20: An investigation into the social integration of people with disabilities in the European Union using a novel approach to cultural consonance analysis (Mirjam Holleman); Chapter 21: Different, not less: Communicating autism via the internet in Indonesia (Hersinta); Chapter 22: Making the irrelevant relevant: The case of the invisibles with disabilities in the Middle East (Najma Al Zidjaly); Part Five, Perspectives of Experience; Chapter 23: Human doing to human being: Western versus Indigenous views on differences in ability (Jillian Pearsall-Jones, Caris Jalla and George Hayden); Chapter 24: Strange beauty: Aesthetic possibilities for desiring disability into the future (Eliza Chandler and Esther Ignagni); Chapter 25: The Brazilian way: Media coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games (Tatiane Hilgemberg); Chapter 26: I could see the future: An ethnographic study of Deaf childrens transition from an oral school to a signing school (Pamela G Macias); Glossary; Index.…”
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The Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture, and Media /

Table of Contents: “…List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction: Disability Arts, Culture, and Media Studies: Mapping A Maturing Field (Bree Hadley and Donna McDonald); Part I: Disability, Identity, and Representation; Chapter 2: Great Reckonings in More Accessible Rooms: The Provocative Reimaginings of Disability Theatre (Kirsty Johnston); Chapter 3: Visual Narratives: Contemplating the Storied Images of Disability and Disablement (Donna McDonald); Chapter 4: Dis/ordered Assemblages of Disability in Museums (Janice Rieger and Megan Strickfaden); Chapter 5: The Down Syndrome Novel: A Microcosm for Inclusion or Parental Trauma Narrative (Sarah Kanake); Chapter 6: Paralympics, Para-sport Bodies, and Legacies of Media Representation (Laura Misener, Kerri Bodin, and Nancy Quinn); Part II: Inclusion, Well-being, and Whole-of-life Experience; Chapter 7: Beauty and the Beast: providing access to the theatre for children with autism (Andy Kempe); Chapter 8: Moving Beyond the Art-As-Service Paradigm: The Evolution of Arts and Disability in Singapore (Justin Lee, Shawn Goh, Sarah Meisch Lionetto, Joanne Tay, and Alice Fox); Chapter 9: Ten years of Touch Compass Dance Companys Integrated Education Programme Under the Spotlight:A Reflective Essay (Sue Cheesman); Chapter 10: Inclusive Capital, Human Value and Cultural Access: A Case Study of Disability Access at Yosemite National Park (Simon Hayhoe); Chapter 11: Gender Representation, Power, and Identity in Mental Health and Art Therapy (Susan Hogan); Chapter 12: Demarcating Dementia on the Contemporary Stage (Morgan Batch); Part III: Access, Artistry, and Audiences; Chapter 13: Ways of Watching: Five Aesthetics of Learning Disability Theatre (Matthew Reason); Chapter 14: History, Performativity, and Dialectics: Critical Spectatorship in Learning Disabled Performance (Dave Calvert); Chapter 15: Institution, Care, and Emancipation in Contemporary Theatre Involving Actors with Intellectual Disabilities (Tony McCaffrey); Chapter 16: Sweet Gongs Vibrating: The Politics of Sensorial Access (Amanda Cachia); Chapter 17: Crip Aesthetics in the Work of Persimmon Blackbridge (Ann Millett-Gallant); Chapter 18: Exquisite Model: Riva Lehrer, Portraiture, and Risk (Ann M. …”
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