Umeå University's logo

umu.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Equal abilities – the Swedish parasport federation and the inclusion process
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology. (DISLIFE)
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Education. (DISLIFE)
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Education.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6080-173x
Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of historical, philosophical and religious studies. Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR). (DISLIFE)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9042-9166
2022 (English)In: Idrottsforum.org/Nordic sport science forum, ISSN 1652-7224, Vol. 13, p. 111-129Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

A major organizational change is currently taking place in Swedish sports, with people labelled with disabilities leaving the Swedish Para-sport Federation (SPF) to participate in mainstream sports under the Swedish Sports Confederation. The aim of this study was to map the expectations of this ongoing process of the stakeholders of the SPF.  Based on a questionnaire with 130 respondents connected to the SPF we found that, overall, the respondents were optimistic about mixed training groups, something that could point towards the possibility of equality between PLwD (people labelled with disabilities) and mainstream athletes. However, a rather large number of respondents feared negative consequences in terms of the physical environment for PLwD. This means that inclusion may create a dilemma regarding the relationship between the individual and the environment. We conclude that inclusion works at different levels of organized sport and there is insufficient knowledge about the impact of inclusion.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Malmö: Malmö University , 2022. Vol. 13, p. 111-129
Keywords [en]
activity, parasport, athletes, sports organization
National Category
Pedagogy
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-200583OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-200583DiVA, id: diva2:1706074
Projects
Likvärdiga villkor i Sveriges största folkrörelse (Forte)
Part of project
Liveable disabilities: Life courses and opportunity structures across time, Europeiska unionen – Horizon 2020
Funder
EU, Horizon 2020, 647125Available from: 2022-10-25 Created: 2022-10-25 Last updated: 2022-12-21Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(314 kB)317 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 314 kBChecksum SHA-512
04ec535bd9b4075f5e1e67cb1053de3f2e9f14626c21f2f8d59bc497e161af8606f5fb082a88f365a9d0be33a85f8cbf1340180939e22a82246ba20269bf78d8
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

Other links

Publisher's full text

Authority records

Nordlund, MadeleneWickman, KimKarp, StaffanVikström, Lotta

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Nordlund, MadeleneWickman, KimKarp, StaffanVikström, Lotta
By organisation
Department of SociologyDepartment of EducationDepartment of historical, philosophical and religious studiesCentre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR)
In the same journal
Idrottsforum.org/Nordic sport science forum
Pedagogy

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 319 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 611 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf