The subject of Special Olympics - interrogating the inclusive potentials of a sport movement from an ableism-critical perspective.

Autor/inn/en	Giese, Martin; Buchner, Tobias; Mihajlovic, Christopher; Oldörp, Felix
Titel	The subject of Special Olympics - interrogating the inclusive potentials of a sport movement from an ableism-critical perspective. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Das Thema Special Olympics - Hinterfragung des integrativen Potenzials einer Sportbewegung aus einer ableismuskritischen Perspektive.
Quelle	In: Sport in society, 25 (2022) 10, S. 2178-2192 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1461-0981; 1743-0437; 1743-0445
DOI	10.1080/17430437.2022.2113061
Schlagwörter	Leistungsfähigkeit; Verhalten; Soziale Integration; Inklusion; Norm; Diskriminierung; Sportpädagogik; Sportsoziologie; Wettkampf; Geistige Behinderung; Sonderpädagogik; Geistig Behinderter
Abstract	Special Olympics (SO) have proven to be a successful movement in enabling persons with intellectual disabilities to participate in sportive competitions. In this respect, SO have claimed themselves to be a facilitator for inclusion. Yet, little research has questioned the inclusive potential and only few studies applied critical perspectives to research SO. In addressing this gap, we adopt an ableism-critical perspective to interrogate ableist structures and desirable ideals of individuals embedded in official SO papers. Applying this perspective on documents of Special Olympics Germany, we understand the SO movement as a reaction to a twofold exclusion of persons with intellectual disabilities from other areas of sport: as an exclusion from mainstream sport and second, as an exclusion from elite Paralympic sport. The results show that SO contributes to a specific, namely neoliberalist normalization of people with intellectual disabilities in society, but not so much to the guiding principle of inclusion. (Autor).
Erfasst von	Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, Bonn
Update	2024/1