Ballast lives: an excursus on socio-political accounts of disablement in the age of globalization

According to contemporary fashion, humankind has entered a new era marked by epochal change, be it a globalized, postmodern, post-industrialist, late modern, high modern, meta-modern, hyper-modern, super-modern, post-Fordist or post-emotional society. In contrast to such claims for epochal disjunction, this thesis identifies fundamental continuities in attitudes and policies toward disablement. Disabled Britons, since at least the 1970's, have sought to develop alternative explanations of disablement, exemplified by Mike Oliver's 'Social Model of Disability'. Despite the influence of a socio-political account amongst the activist disability movement, dominant ideology ensures that such pioneering ideas are subject to unrelenting disparagement and disinformation. Despite such ridicule, this thesis shows that claims of a coherent and liberative 'disability policy' in the UK remain grandiloquent, if not entirely inaccurate. Building on the work of Deborah Stone and Mike Oliver, in particular, I will show that, despite modest progress, British disability policy remains indelibly marked by seventeenthcentury assumptions and prejudice. This thesis contributes to the development of disability theory by providing a critical socio-economic analysis of contemporary policy and radical theorising, a task that has yet to be substantially addressed in the UK. Furthermore, by examining legal, historical, economic, political and social sources, I contend that the absence of contemporary disability policy will be shown to provide explicit benefits to the elite, to the detriment of efforts to promote and protect the emancipation of disabled Britons. The over-arching premise is that socio-political accounts of disablement continue to provide unparalleled analytical and theoretical insights into a process of disablement, not least as a particular brand of capitalism is in the ascendancy: the struggle for global hegemony aided by the advancement of a single market modelled on U.S. lines

Jugadores no profesionales de rugby procedentes de las islas Fiyi: su transición cultural en Nueva Zelanda

There is growing research interest in athlete mobility as a consequence of globalization and the personal, cultural and contextual adjustments required in transitioning from one culture to another (see, Ryba, Haapanen, Mosek & Kwok, 2012). While this work has provided valuable knowledge about the challenges facing professional athletes transitioning from one culture to another it pays little attention to the experiences of non-professional and non-elite athletes. To redress this oversight this article presents the findings of a study on the experiences of Fijian non-elite rugby players who had moved to New Zealand as adolescents to pursue opportunities in rugby.Debido la globalización y de los necesarios procesos de adaptación personal, cultural y contextual que conlleva la transición de una cultura a otra, hemos asistido recientemente a un creciente interés en la investigación sobre la movilidad de los deportistas (ver Ryba, Haapanen, Mosek & Kwok, 2012). Aunque, por una parte, estos estudios han proporcionado un valioso conocimiento de los retos que han de afrontar los deportistas profesionales en su transición de una cultura a otra, por otra, se ha prestado poca atención a la experiencia de los deportistas que no profesionales y/o que no son de élite. Para compensar este vacío, el presente artículo se centra en los resultados de un estudio de las experiencias de jugadores de rugby que no eran de élite, provenientes de las islas Fiyi, que, siendo adolescentes, se trasladaron a Nueva Zelanda a la búsqueda de sus sueños en el rugby

Responses of Study Abroad Students in Australia to Experience-Based Pedagogy in Sport Studies

This paper contributes to research on the scholarship of teaching in the physical education/sport studies fields by examining the responses of study abroad students from overseas studying in Australia to a unit of study in sport studies that placed the interpretation of experience as the centre of the learning process. It draws on research conducted at an Australian university over an 18-month period and involving 170 participants. The study focused on the ways in which student motivations, inclinations, expectations and prior experience interacted with experiences of living in Australia and the experience-based nature of the unit of study shaped their responses and perceptions of learning

Introduction: Contemporary developments in games teaching

For individuals interested in contemporary physical education and sports coaching practices, the well-known saying, 'may you live in interesting times' (sometimes referred to as the Chinese curse) will hold some resonance. As debate occurs about the very nature of what constitutes physical education and sports coaching, and 'which' knowledge should be privileged through pedagogical encounters, we do live in interesting times characterised by profound social and cultural changes (Wright, Macdonald and Burrows 2004). For some, these changes have produced professional working lives that are extremely fast-paced and time-poor. With many commercial enterprises claiming to offer 'innovative' and 'cutting-edge' practical solutions and 'quick fixes' for highly complex problems, as professionals we are now required to become critical consumer of what others have termed the global information explosion (Wright et. al. 2004). In relation to physical education and coaching we believe that in order to be effective critical consumers, 'context' matters and as such, we need local, nuanced examples of how various teaching coaching approaches are applied to consider their relevance for the issues we face in our own practice

Why Adolescent Girls Play Basketball in Australia and its Meaning for them

The potential of organized sport to contribute to the health and wellbeing of young people justifies concern about their participation in it. While most research focuses on barriers and drop out, this article reports on a study that adopted a positive approach. Conducted in a large basketball club in Melbourne, Australia, it focused on what kept adolescent girls, aged 13-16 in one team. It identified two main factors contributing toward making basketball enjoyable for the six girls in the study and which kept them playing. They were: (1) relationships within the team and (2) having a strong sense of learning and improvement

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Editors Delvun C. Case, Jr. Paul M. Fernhoff Associate Editors Donald Bergman Daniel B. Gould Richard Bonanno Ronald Hoffman Lay-Out Editor Carol Dolinskas Sports Editor James Nocon Business Manager Nick Grego Contributing Editors Michael J. Blecker Stephen P. Flynn Lin Sey Edwards Jack Guralnik W. Cherry Ligh

Marine barite morphology as an indicator of biogeochemical conditions within organic matter aggregates

Marine barite is commonly used as a proxy to reconstruct past ocean productivity. Its distribution in the water column mirrors organic carbon fluxes since it precipitates within microenvironments in decomposing organic matter aggregates. Barite and barium proxies are therefore used to study various aspects of organic matter remineralization and the marine carbon cycle. Barite naturally occurs in a wide variety of crystal sizes and morphologies, but barite crystals that form in the ocean water column are dominantly 1–2 μm in length and have barrel-shaped morphologies. Here, we conducted a series of laboratory experiments to determine the physical and chemical conditions that yield barite crystals similar to marine barite. We found that barite saturation index, the presence and identity of organic compounds, and experiment duration all exert a strong influence on barite crystal size and morphology. Barrel-shaped, 1 μm length crystals resembling marine barite were produced in experiments with a barite saturation index of 2.5, soy phospholipid concentrations of ≥50 mg L−1, and experiment durations of ≤10 min. These findings help constrain the plausible biogeochemical conditions within the aggregate microenvironments in which marine barite precipitates. Relatively high experimental concentrations of phospholipids are consistent with the hypothesized involvement of extracellular polymeric substances in marine barite precipitation. Short experiment durations suggest that a favorable saturation state may be short-lived in marine organic matter aggregates. We present detailed mineralogical and crystallographic analyses of the crystals we synthesized to gain insight into barite crystal growth. This work deepens our understanding of the mechanisms behind marine barite precipitation and sheds light on microscale spatial and temporal dynamics within organic matter aggregates.U.S. Department of Defense National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Student FellowshipGeological Society of Americ

THE CIDOC WEB SITE – A CASE STUDY IN INFORMATION RE-USE

The current CIDOC web site has become increasingly difÞ cult to maintain. It relies on the willingness of one member to update its content, and on other members providing him with relevant material. Although it provides French as well as English content, it does so by including both languages in a single HTML page. Content from the web site cannot easily be used for other purposes, such as printed publications. This paper describes current efforts to re-invent the CIDOC web site so that it is an effective information resource for its users – the membership of CIDOC. The content of individual pages is now held as XML, allowing it to be used for other purposes. French and English versions of each page are stored separately, making it easier to work in a single language of one’s choice and opening up the possibility of adding other languages in the future. The whole “site map” is stored as a Topic Map, allowing a range of approaches to navigation to be deployed, including CRM-based Þ ltering. An online site updating framework has been developed. This allows suitably authorised CIDOC members to add and update both the structure and the content of the site directly, without the need for an intermediary. During the coming months we intend to issue newsletter articles on the web site, as PDF documents, and in print. The challenges encountered and lessons learnt while doing so will be described