'A level playing field': Young people's experiences of wheelchair basketball as an enabling place.
Disability
Enabling places
New Zealand
Sport
Wellbeing
Young people
Journal
Health & place
ISSN: 1873-2054
Titre abrégé: Health Place
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9510067
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
11 2019
11 2019
Historique:
received:
01
03
2019
revised:
23
06
2019
accepted:
16
08
2019
pubmed:
22
9
2019
medline:
12
9
2020
entrez:
22
9
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Using a novel case-study of a youth wheelchair basketball team in Auckland, New Zealand, we investigate the experiences of young people with physical disabilities in recreational sports places. We consider the 'enabling places' created by this sport, which can enhance disabled young people's wellbeing and social inclusion. Semi-structured interviews with the team's players and coordinators revealed logistical and societal challenges associated with facilitating youth-oriented sports, as well as those encountered by team members personally. They also identified physical health and social benefits experienced through involvement in wheelchair basketball. The material, social and affective dimensions of participants' experiences of wheelchair basketball elucidate the capacity for the sport, and its team members and settings, to affirm young people's identity and place-in-the-world. We conclude that youth-specific, inclusive sports generate enabling places that enhance young people's social inclusion, wellbeing and life enjoyment.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31541720
pii: S1353-8292(19)30224-2
doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.102192
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Pagination
102192Informations de copyright
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