The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games: The Visibility of People With Disabilities in Brazil as a Possible Legacy

2020 ◽  
pp. 216747952094273
Author(s):  
Doralice Lange de Souza ◽  
Ian Brittain
Keyword(s):  
Medical Model ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
The Media ◽  
Paralympic Sport ◽  
Medical Model Of Disability ◽  
Managerial Positions ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Paralympic Games

There are claims that the Paralympic Games (PG) might contribute to a better world for people with disabilities (PWD). However, there are also claims that the PG might in fact be counterproductive to the PWD’s rights movement because they might promote the medical model of disability and/or ableism. In this context, we developed a qualitative exploratory study to investigate the legacies of the Rio 2016 PG from the perspective of disability rights activists and people involved in Paralympic sport managerial positions. In this article, we discuss one of the main perceived legacies that the PG fostered PWD’s visibility and a change in society’s perception of PWD. We conducted 24 open in-depth interviews and found that, for our participants, the PG worked as a showcase for PWD who were rarely seen in the media and in public spaces before the Games. This visibility helped to challenge negative stereotypes and stigmas associated with PWD, as well as possibly opening new doors for them. Our interviewees believe that we shouldn’t expect that the PG alone can change people’s perceptions and PWD’s status overnight. They are part of a larger and complex set of actions that are slowly contributing to this process.

scholarly journals Exploring the social legacy of paralympic games for disabled people

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Lyusyena Kirakosyan ◽  
Manoel Osmar Seabra Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Paralympic Games

While the concept of legacy of sporting mega-events has been highly debated and filled with the promise to deliver tangible and measurable benefits, in the context of the Paralympics, defining legacy has been a challenge, due to a lack of universally understood and accepted nature and objectives of the Paralympic Games themselves. Although many authors and disability rights activists expect the Paralympics to accelerate agenda of inclusion of disabled people, a growing number of studies found that the Paralympics misrepresent disability and the reality of disabled people, and consequently reinforce negative stereotypes. Informed by critical disability studies, the central research aim of this article is to examine the social legacies of the 2012 and 2016 Paralympic Games for disabled people as identified in the media coverage of three selected periodicals, The Guardian, and O Globo. The article presents a summary of the qualitative analysis of the media coverage related to the topic of Paralympic legacy and disability rights, highlights its central themes and offers a discussion of the findings through the lens of critical disability studies.

Disability and the Practice of Public History: An Introduction

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Ott
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Public History ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Medical Model Of Disability

Museums, exhibitions, and public history have long engaged with the subject matter of disability. Shared social conventions and exhibition traditions about people with disabilities--the common stereotypes of people as persevering heroes or objects of pity--have often led to skewed and inaccurate historical presentations. The medical model of disability, equally strong in framing disability, has also reduced the range of possibilities for including content for the public. More recently, greater understanding of diversity and of the importance of interpreting the history of all people has begun to push inclusion beyond simple access issues and into content.

scholarly journals A contribuição da mídia na construção dos ídolos paralímpicos brasileiros

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Vinícius Denardin Cardoso ◽  
Marcelo De Castro Haiachi ◽  
Bianca Natália Poffo ◽  
Amanda Paola Velasco ◽  
Adroaldo Cezar Araujo Gaya
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Media ◽  
Paralympic Sport ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Positive Results ◽  
Theoretical Reflection ◽  
Paralympic Games

The Brazilian paralympic sport is living a moment of sporting highlight because of their recent achievements: eigth place in the Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games 2016 and leader for three consecutive editions of the Para-PanAmerican Games (2007, 2011, 2015). These results makes Brazil as been viewed how a world paralympic power. The media can contribute to the country remain in this status, not only the visibility of great athletes, but also so that more people know the Paralympic sport and are encouraged to join the sport. Thus, this essay aims to reflect on the influence of the media in the creation and construction of Brazilian Paralympic idols from the years 2000 to the Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games in 2016. It has a qualitative approach with exploratory and descriptive procedures. Through theoretical reflection with literature, the text seeks to provide some relevant discussions and reflections on the subject. Since 2000s the Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB) has invested in the coverage of the Paralympic sports, and this initiative has generated positive results for the country, since many idols have been created and contribute to the emergence of new Paralympic generations.

scholarly journals “The Legacy Element . . . It Just Felt More Woolly”: Exploring the Reasons for the Decline in People With Disabilities’ Sport Participation in England 5 Years After the London 2012 Paralympic Games

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 343-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Brown ◽  
Athanasios (Sakis) Pappous
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Sports Participation ◽  
Disability Sport ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Paralympic Games

This article explores why sports participation of people with disabilities in England has declined since the London 2012 Paralympic Games (LPG). Thirty semistructured interviews were conducted with staff employed in a variety of sports and disability-specific organizations. Our preliminary findings suggest that the decline is a result of a complex interplay between multiple factors. A competency gap and a lack of relevance between Paralympians and the rest of the community of people with disabilities might have limited the impact of the legacy. In addition, an absence of coordinated leveraging of the LPG, and a decline in the media coverage of disability sport in the aftermath of the LPG, might also have dulled the legacy. Finally, our data show that austerity and negative media coverage of people with disabilities deterred some people from participating in sport.

scholarly journals Visitors with ASD in the museum: five steps to inclusion

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 53-56
Author(s):  
V.S. Stepanov
Keyword(s):  
Medical Model ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Cultural Integration ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Medical Model Of Disability ◽  
Traditional Medical Model

The change in the attitude of society towards people with disabilities to a more positive one led to switch through traditional “medical” model of disability to the social model. Although this process progresses unevenly, it spreads and affects various spheres. More and more cultural institutions set themselves the goal of creating an inclusive institution. One of the tasks for such institution is to contribute to the process of social & cultural integration of people with disabilities. The main five steps for creating an inclusive museum, which is set for people with ASD, are described based on the experience of the Museum of Russian Impressionism.

scholarly journals The Dynamics of Euphemisation in Legal Language: An Analysis of Legal Terms Referring to People with Disabilities Used in Poland and Spain

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Nowak-Michalska
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
First Language ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Legal Language ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
New Words ◽  
Morphological Differences

Abstract Socio-political developments can result in a change of perception of people with disabilities and increase sensitivity towards language, especially legal language, used in relation to them. Some terms perceived as offensive or stigmatising are rejected in favour of more neutral and inclusive ones. Such terms can often be categorised as euphemisms or orthophemisms (Allan and Burridge in Forbidden Words, Taboo, and the Censoring of Language, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, 2006). With the passage of time, such new words frequently cease to serve their purpose and new ones need to be proposed to refer to a given concept (euphemism treadmill). In order to examine this issue, a number of legal terms denoting persons with disabilities used, currently and historically, in legal regulations in Poland and Spain are discussed. They are analysed in the context of changing the model of perception of people with disabilities (medical model vs. social model). Next, the differentiation between the so-called Identity-First Language (the term denoting disability comes first linearly) and Person-First Language (the term denoting disability comes second linearly, often in the form of a prepositional phrase), advocated by some members of the disability rights movement, is discussed. In this context, important syntactic and morphological differences (word-order, number of the term denoting disability) between English, serving as a model, and Spanish and Polish are focused on.

scholarly journals The Challenges and Rewards of Parenthood: Experiences of Disabled Parents in Israel

2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Gutman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Vision Impairment ◽  
Cultural Meaning ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Medical Model Of Disability ◽  
Parenting Role

Research about disabled adults has tended to focus on the employment role as holding the promise for full integration. Moreover, when the discourse has addressed familial roles such as parenting, the extant literature has been grounded in a medical model of disability and highlights the perceived incompetence of disabled parents and their parenting practices. This article presents an overview of research about people with disabilities in their parenting role. It then addresses the cultural meaning of parenthood within the unique socio-political context that exists in Israel and reports on the major findings of a qualitative study that explored the parenting experiences of people with vision impairment. Important themes that resonated throughout the study interviews include the discriminatory attitudes and practices that these parents faced while navigating the parenting role as well as issues of independence and autonomy. These findings are discussed against a socio-political backdrop of disability that characterizes contemporary Israeli society.

scholarly journals Sociology of sport, media and disability in Spain

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Josep Solves
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Advanced Country ◽  
Sport Media ◽  
Current State ◽  
Athletes With Disabilities ◽  
The Media ◽  
Paralympic Sport ◽  
The Government

Today, Spain is an advanced country in the field of sport for people with disabilities. Thanks to social movement led by National Blind Organization (ONCE) since the mid-80s, the Paralympic Games in Barcelona in 1992, the birth of the Spanish Paralympic Committee in 1995 and the Paralympic Sport Support Plan (ADOP) by the Government, Spain is a Paralympic power and many athletes with disabilities are socially known and admired people. However, there are yet situations of social and economic discrimination. Surely the media have powerfully influenced for improve the image of these athletes with disabilities, but still they use to give the sport for people with disabilities much less coverage than they give to other sports. From a sociological point of view, the study of sport is consolidating as a scientific area and in recent decades it has highlighted the connections between sport and society in various fields. In particular, sport for people with disabilities has become one of the areas that has evolved, especially in relation to their physical, psychological and social benefits. However, the study area relating adapted sports and mass communication is poorly developed in Spain and the references are still sporadic. The aim of this article is to show the current state of studies on sport for people with disabilities from the point of view of sociology and communication sciences in Spain, as well as the relevance of deepening these studies to achieve understanding and, as far as possible, improve the situation of these people.

scholarly journals The Nested Precarities of Creative Labor on Social Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512110213
Author(s):  
Brooke Erin Duffy ◽  
Annika Pinch ◽  
Shruti Sannon ◽  
Megan Sawey
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Media ◽  
Depth Interviews

While metrics have long played an important, albeit fraught, role in the media and cultural industries, quantified indices of online visibility—likes, favorites, subscribers, and shares—have been indelibly cast as routes to professional success and status in the digital creative economy. Against this backdrop, this study sought to examine how creative laborers’ pursuit of social media visibility impacts their processes and products. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 30 aspiring and professional content creators on a range of social media platforms—Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, and Twitter—we contend that their experiences are not only shaped by the promise of visibility, but also by its precarity. As such, we present a framework for assessing the volatile nature of visibility in platformized creative labor, which includes unpredictability across three levels: (1) markets, (2) industries, and (3) platform features and algorithms. After mapping out this ecological model of the nested precarities of visibility, we conclude by addressing both continuities with—and departures from—the earlier modes of instability that characterized cultural production, with a focus on the guiding logic of platform capitalism.

scholarly journals Protection of Children in Difficulty in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 279
Author(s):  
Fang Zhao ◽  
Ning Zhu ◽  
Juha Hämäläinen
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
Child Protection Services ◽  
The Media ◽  
Professional Systems ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study investigated the resilience of the Chinese child protection system in responding to the special needs of children in difficulty under the specific circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study applied qualitative document analysis of child protection administrative documents, in-depth interviews with 13 child protection professionals, and an in-depth case study of 14 children living in difficulty, complemented by relevant information available in the media. The results indicate that there are good policies in China’s child protection services but the organizational and functional fragmentation complicates implementation, suggesting a need for the development of bottom-up practices. The essential conclusion supported by these results is that the child protection system should be regarded and developed as a systematic project combining the legal, policymaking, and professional systems of child welfare services as well as governmental and non-governmental forces. As the COVID-19 pandemic has raised awareness of the need to develop the field of child protection holistically as an integrated system in terms of social sustainability in China, an international literature-based comparison indicates that the pandemic has also raised similar political awareness in other countries.

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