EP 11 Ch 10 - Age and Ability: Barriers to Participation and Inclusion

In this episode, we begin our discussion focusing on ableist ideology and how we can avoid stigmatizing others. We then discuss how sports participation can counter ableist notions of aging as a process of decline, why ability is challenging to define, and we recognize limits of what sport can accomplish. This opens up a discussion about how life developments both facilitate and restrict the choices we can make about physical activity. We then compare the medical model of disability to the social model of disability. Next we discuss how the politics of the "norm-other binary" and how ability intersects with identities. Finally, we conclude by addressing how disability sports can lessen exclusions and impact "the empire of the normal".