In the past few decades, the proliferation of scholarly writing involving the past and present of the Paralympic Games and disability athletics has extended sport historians’ horizons. However, the representation of disabled bodies in the cultural history of sport has rarely been discussed in detail. British media scholar Carolyn Jackson-Brown's newest monograph, Disability, the Media and the Paralympic Games, takes an inspiring and informative perspective on the issue. Her research casts light on the cooperation and competitions between multiple parties, including media professionals, national authorities, private sectors, and disabled people, in the production and meanings of normalized and super-humanized disabled bodies in the British television network Channel 4’s coverage of the 2012 London Paralympics.
Consisting of seven chapters, this monograph's main contents could be divided into three parts. The first part is composed of the first two chapters. In the first chapter, Jackson-Brown mainly introduces the framework, theory, and...
