Tag: paralympics
Disputation | Performance determinants and classification in paracanoe | Johanna Rosén, GIH, fredagen den 10 december 2021
I Johanna Roséns avhandling har biomekaniska prestationsvariabler under paddling undersökts hos parakanotiser med funktionsnedsättning i syfte att utveckla och fördjupa kunskapen inom två evidensbaserade klassificeringssystem för para-kajak och para-va´a. Studier som i framtiden undersöker påverkan av funktionsnedsättning på paddlingsprestation och validiteten av systemen bör företrädesvis utföras på vatten för att ytterligare förbättra den ekologiska validiteten.
Documenting the Olympics & Paralympics | Online conference panel, June 19, 2020, now available as audio recording
This panel discussion reveals more about researchers' experiences when navigating archives, as well as the collection policies related to Olympics/Paralympics of GLAM organisations. There is a broad mix of physical, digitised and born digital resources will be covered in the presentations. The event is hosted by BSSH Chair, Raf Nicholson and moderated by BSSH Secretary Geoff Levett.
Olimpianos – Journal of Olympic Studies, Vol 4, 2020 | Tokyo Olympic Games: postponement or cancellation?
The purpose of Olimpianos – Journal of Olympic Studies is to provide a channel for communication and academic dissemination within Olympic and paralympic studies. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: POSTPONING THE TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES: STRESS-TESTING GOVERNANCE IN THE OLYMPIC SYSTEM AND LIMITATIONS TO AGENDA 2020 by Marjorie Enya, Mateus Nagime, Dominik Gusia.
Call for Papers | Olimpianos – Journal of Olympic Studies | Open Call
The purpose of Olimpianos – Journal of Olympic Studies is to provide a channel for communication and academic dissemination within Olympic and Paralympic studies. The scope s directed in 3 broad areas, humanities and Olympic Studies, governance and Olympic Studies, and communication, marketing and Olympic studies. The journal is Open Access.
Funded PhD opportunity: From Stoke Mandeville 1944 to London 2012: Photography and the Making of the Paralympic Community in Britain
This project will make a theoretical and practical intervention in current debates in disability history, photographic history and sports history. While scholars have examined the media coverage of Paralympic athletes, the visual history of the Paralympic movement is yet to be written.
Journal of Sport & Social Issues Vol. 39, No. 5, October 2015
Journal of Sport and Social Issues (JSSI) brings you the latest research, discussion and analysis on contemporary sport issues. Using an international, interdisciplinary perspective, JSSI examines today's most pressing and far-reaching questions about sport.
Call for Participation: Re-Imagining (the) Olympics. Workshop, Sept. 2, 2014
Re-Imagining (the) Olympics
Tuesday 2nd September 2014
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
The Olympic and Paralympic Games are a globalised phenomenon. The Games are a multi-billion dollar industry, a mega event, a showcase for professionalism and internationalisation; yet, also, these events have changed significantly from the origins of the modern Olympic movement in the nineteenth century, in which ideologies of amateurism, nationalism...
Theme of the Month from Routledge in October: All 2013 Topics Revisited
Routledge is taking a look back at its Themes of the Month in 2013 and giving us ll access to the entire collection for freefor one month only!
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The themes so far this year have been: Rugby, tailored to the Six Nations; Sport, Physical Activity and Health, in support of World Cancer Day; Women in Sport, in support...
New report Women in the Olympic and Paralympic Games: An Analysis of Participation and Leadership Opportunities
SHARP, the Sport, Health and Activity Research and Policy Center for Women and Girls, was established in 2010 as a new partnership between the Women’s Sports Foundation and U-M’s School of Kinesiology and the Institute for Research on Women & Gender. SHARP's mission is to lead research that enhances the scope, experience, and sustainability of participation in sport, play, and...
Sociology of Sport Journal Volume 30, Issue 1, March 2013
Articles
Parkour, Masculinity, and the City
Jeffrey L. Kidder
Who’s In and Who Is Out? Legitimate Bodies Within the Paralympic Games
David E.J. Purdue, P. David Howe
Saving Lives With Soccer and Shoelaces: The Hyperreality of Nike (RED)
Courtney Szto
Sporting Homonationalisms: Sexual Exceptionalism, Queer Privilege, and the 21st Century International Lesbian and Gay Sport Movement
Judy Davidson
For the Sociology of Sport
The Mediasport Interpellation: Gender, Fanship, and...