KNES 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Henry Giroux, Cerebral Palsy, Verisimilitude
6 May 2020
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Disability [sport] and discourse: stories within the paralympic legacy. Purpose: encourage critical reflection on key social and political issues of paralympic games by telling stories of 4 paralympic athletes: specifically, london 2012 experiences of athletes and media representations. Box 1: henry giroux argued symbiotic relationship between neoliberalism & militarization post 911. Box 2: reformation of increasingly differentiated urban spaces = paralympic park=escape from society. Would have been national funding a few years earlier, but now it was after the olympics: demoralized, lost physical and academic motivation. London was supposed to be her passport to normal life. Box 4: world perceived disabled as asexual, depressive disorder is common for females/unmarried/disabled/unemployed. Conclusion: researchers were surprised at how critically the paralympians completed the stories, and this offered a glimpse behind the paralympic gloss, biophysical disability is more than ever a matter of socio-political dynamics.
