Final Exam Review Flashcards
Discourse
-Foucault
-statements that make up a topic (certain ways of talking)
Dr. Ludwig Guttman
started rehabilitation for war veterans in the Stoke Mandeville Hospital
History of Deaf Athletics (3)
-1888 sport for deaf in Berlin
- became International committee of sports for deaf
-deaflympics after winter/summer olympics & paralympics
Stoke Mandeville Games
-July 1894
-only wheelchair athletes in archery (focus was participation > competition)
-netball eventually added
First Paralympic Games
-aka 9th Stoke Mandeville games
-1960 in Rome, 400 athletes (23 countries)
-Held in the same host city as olympics (not done again until ‘88-summer and ‘92-winter)
Paralympics today
-elite disability sport (not just participation)
-athletes classified based on disability
-almost 4000 athletes from 146 countries in 2008
When/ where was the International Paralympic Committee formed & who was its first/current president?
-1989 in Germany
-first president was Steadward, now Parsons
IPC-IOC agreement
-2000 where “One Bid, one city” meaning Paralympics automatically included in bid for Olympics
5 limitations of Paralympics
- Athletes seen as tragedies
- Focus is on records/stats not people/stories
- Those who “empower” athletes (experts) > popularity than actual athletes
- Undermine athlete resistance (seen as rebellious if speaking against popular disabled narratives)
- Increased use of power over athletes (disability-based role expectations)
Social Model of Disability
UPIAS separates impairment (physical limitation regardless of society) and disability (social exclusion due to societal structures)
downsides to Social Model of Disability
-neglects impairment importance
-assumes all disabled are oppressed
-assumes 100% distinction between the 2 terms (grey area)
-utopian idea
Paralympic coverage in media
-male dominated
-sport hierarchy (wheelchair sports most popular)
-supercrip (automatically victimizing athlete)
Ideological State Apparatuses
preparation for working class to accept life of exploitation
Matriarchal theory
-sport/coaches are surrogates for absent-father families
-BUT most athletes suspicious of coaches and/or come from 2 parent families
Mandingo Theory
-large black slaves bred with large women in attempt to yield large child
-BUT slaveowners often raped slaves and/or most slaves chose own mates
Psychological Theory
-black people lack intellect/emotional control needed to be a sports leader (coach) but have strengths in physical labor (athlete)
-racialization makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy
Dumb Jock Theory
-black people get more education as athletes (college) but still can’t compare with non-athletes academically
-BUT student athletes only barely outperform non-athletes (idea that athleticism and intellectualism can’t coexist)
Genetic theory
-black people have more white twitch muscle (speed) where white people have more red twitch muscle (stamina) BUT what about distance runners from Kenya? (Bolt)
Contested Scientific Opinion
-St. louis said theories are based on one strand of scientific opinion
-idea that specific genes correspond to specific traits is unproven (just tabloid science)
-scientific ideas aren’t unbiased (racial ideas frame questions and studies)
Scientific racism
-Cashmore’s idea of encouraging black students to find success in athletics rather than academia (more success for them?)
Tom Molineaux
-slave boxer in 1900’s who won his freedom through contests
-idea that slaves being used to make money for slave owners can eventually become a tool for their liberation
Jack Johnson
first black heavyweight champ in 1908, disrupted ideas of white supremecy