Publications: Sport, Culture and Policy

2011 Publications

Howe, P. D.  (2011) ‘Cyborg and Supercrip: The Paralympics technology and the (dis) empowerment of disabled athletes’. Sociology. Vol. 45 (5): 868- 882.

2010 Publications

Howe, P. D. (2010) The sporting ethic should celebrate difference. Sport and Citizenship: Sport serving society, 12 (Sept-Dec): 20.

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2009 Publications

Howe, P. D. (2009). An Accessible World Stage: Human Rights, Integration and the Para-Athletic Program in Canada. Cambrian Law Review, 40: 23-35.

Howe, P. D. (2009). Reflexive Ethnography, impairment and the pub, Leisure Studies, 28.(4): 489-496.

Horne, J. and Howe, P. D. eds. (2009). Guest editorial. Special issue of 'Leisure and Disability' in Leisure Studies, 28 (4): 371-373.

O’ Brian, D., Kudláček, M. and Howe P.D. (2009). A Contemporary Review of English Language Literature on Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Physical Education: A European Perspective. European Journal of Adapted Physical Activity, 2 (1): 46-61

2008 Publications

Howe, P. D. (2008). From Inside the Newsroom: Paralympic Media and the 'Production of Elite Disability, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 43 (2):135-150.

Howe, P.D. (2008) The Tail is Wagging the Dog: Classification and the Paralympic Movement, Ethnography, 9 (4): 499-518.

2007 & Older Publications

Howe, P. D. (2007). Integration of Paralympic Athletes into Athletics Canada. International Journal of Canadian Studies, 35:133-150.

Howe, P. D. and Jones, C. (2006). Classification of Disabled Athletes: (Dis)empowering the Paralympic Practice Community. Sociology of Sport Journal, 23 (1): 29-46.

Jones, C. and Howe, P. D. (2005). The Conceptual Boundaries of Sport for the Disabled: Classification and Athletic Performance. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 32 (2): 133-146.

2011

Howe, P.D. (2011).  Sociology and Paralympic Sport.  In Vanlandewijck, Y. and Thompson, W. The Paralympic Athlete. Lausanne: IOC Press.

Howe. P.D. (2011) Sporting Bodies: Sensuous, Lived and Impaired. In Mascia-Lees, F.E. (ed.) A campanion to the anthropology of the body and embodiment. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

2010

Howe,  P.D. (2010) ‘Disability, Olympism and Paralympism’ in Bairner, A. and Molnar, G. (eds.)  Politics of the Olympics. London: Routledge. pp. 69-80.

2009

Howe, P.D. (2009) ‘The Paralympic Movement: Identity and (Dis)ability’ in Parker, A. and Harris, J. (eds.) Sport and Social Identities. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

2008

Bale, J. and Howe, P. D. eds. (2008). Historical and Cultural Interpretations of a Sporting Barrier: the four minute mile. London: Routledge.

Howe, P.D. (2008).The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement: Through the Anthropological Lens. London: Routledge.

2007 and older

Howe, P.D. (2006). ''The Role of Injury in the Organization of Paralympic Sport'', in Pain and Injury in Sport: Social and Ethical Analysis, Loland, S., Skirstad, and Waddington, I. (eds.), Routledge, London.

Howe, P.D. (2004). ''Rugby, Injury and Club Habitus'', in Sporting Bodies, Damaged Selves: Sociological Studies of Sports-Related Injury, Young, K. (ed.), Elsevier Science, London.

Howe, P. D. (2004). Sport, Professionalism and Pain: Ethnographies of Injury and Risk. London: Routledge.

Howe, P.D. (2003). ''Kicking Stereotypes into Touch: an ethnographic account of women's rugby'', in Bodies in Motion: Women Culture and Exercise, Bolin, A. and J. Granskog (Eds.), SUNY, New York.

Brackenridge, C., Howe, P.D. and Jordan, F. (eds) (2000). Just Leisure: Equity, Social Inclusion and Identity, LSA Publications No. 72, Eastbourne.

Howe, P.D. (1999). ''Professionalism, Commercialism and the Rugby Club: from Embryo to Infant at Pontypridd RFC'', in The Rugby World: Race, Gender, Commerce and Rugby Union, Chandler, T. L. C. and J. Nauright (eds.), CASS, London.

Sport Culture & Policy Publications - Non Disability Related

Howe, P. D. (2006). Habitus, Barriers and the Ab/use of the Science of Interval training in the 1950s. Sport in History. Vol. 26 (2): 325-344.

Howe, P.D. (2001). An Ethnography of Pain and Injury in Professional Rugby Union: The case of Pontypridd RFC. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 36(3), 289-303.

Howe, P.D. (2001). Women's Rugby and the Nexus Between Embodiment, Professionalism and Sexuality: An ethnographic account. Football Studies, 4(2), 77-92.