“What's the difference?” Women's wheelchair basketball, reverse integration, and the question (ing) of disability

N Spencer-Cavaliere, D Peers - Adapted physical …, 2011 - journals.humankinetics.com
The inclusion of able-bodied athletes within disability sport, a phenomenon known as
reverse integration, has sparked significant debate within adapted physical activity. Although …

Reverse integration in wheelchair basketball: Stakeholders' understanding in elite and recreational sporting communities

M Verdonck, J Ripat, PM Clark… - Adapted Physical …, 2020 - journals.humankinetics.com
Wheelchair basketball (WCBB) often includes reverse integration (RI), defined as the
inclusion of athletes without impairment in a sport traditionally aimed at athletes with an …

Reverse integration in wheelchair basketball: A serious leisure perspective

Y Hutzler, R Barda, A Mintz… - Journal of Sport and …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Wheelchair basketball is one of the most popular sport activities among persons with
disabilities. The current study focuses on “reverse integration”(RI) groups of athletes with …

[HTML][HTML] Sport participation for people with disabilities: exploring the potential of reverse integration and inclusion through wheelchair basketball

R Ramsden, R Hayman, P Potrac… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Reverse integration is defined as the inclusion of able-bodied people into disability sport.
For decades, there have been movements towards integrating people with a disability in …

" I consider myself an empowered woman": the interaction of sport, gender and disability in the lives of wheelchair basketball players

M Hardin - Women in Sport & Physical Activity Journal, 2007 - search.proquest.com
This research, involving interviews with elite female wheelchair basketball players, explores
how gender and disability intersect in the lives of these athletes. Interviews revealed the …

Examining the concept of reverse integration: A response to Brasile's “new perspective” on integration

A Thiboutot, RW Smith… - Adapted Physical …, 1992 - journals.humankinetics.com
Brasile (1990) has proposed a “new perspective” on efforts in the United States to integrate
persons without disabilities in activities currently limited exclusively to those with disabilities …

Disability and the dedicated wheelchair athlete: Beyond the “supercrip” critique

RJ Berger - Journal of contemporary ethnography, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
The “supercrip” athlete is often derided as a figure that is antithetical to the interests of
people with disabilities. But few researchers have questioned the assumptions of this …

Why do able‐bodied people take part in wheelchair sports?

J Medland, C Ellis‐Hill - Disability & Society, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Recently able‐bodied people have taken up wheelchair sports. This paper aims to explore
why people are taking up a sport which may be considered to 'belong'to disabled people …

'I had to pop a wheelie and pay extra attention in order not to fall:'embodied experiences of two wheelchair tennis athletes transgressing ableist and gendered norms …

S Lynch, J Hill - Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
When bodies move in certain contexts, it can mean very different things for different people.
In our society, some bodies are more valued than others, and detrimentally, this can mean …

“I do not compete in disability”: How wheelchair athletes challenge the discourse of able-ism through action and resistance

K Wickman - European journal for sport and society, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Drawing on data from face-to-face semi-structured interviews with five male and four female
wheelchair athletes and inspired by poststructuralism, this study illuminates the meaning …