Empower, inspire, achieve: (dis)empowerment and the Paralympic Games

Disability and Society

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 903-916

  Purdue, David E J ^a   Howe, P David ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; disability; empowerment; Paralympic; sociology; sport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869471134     PISSN: 09687599     EISSN: 13600508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2012.695576     Document Type: Article

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