| Abstrakt: |
Many ability-based theoretical concepts have been developed within the disability rights community and the fields of disability studies, ability studies, studies in ableism, and critical studies of ableism to engage with the societal reality of ability-based judgments, norms, and conflicts in general and in relation to body and mind abilities, body ability enhancement beyond the species-typical and the role of body-linked technologies. Ability-based judgments of disabled and so-called non-disabled people are prevalent in sports in general, physical activity, leisure and recreation, and the fields of sports pedagogy, kinesiology, and physical education (from now on referred to as sport in all areas). Therefore, the first aim of this study was to obtain numbers of the prevalence of use in the academic literature focusing on sport in all areas in general and in relation to disabled people of a) ability-based theoretical concepts and b) terms linked to human ability enhancement and body linked technologies by themselves and in conjunction with ability-based concepts. Disabled people face many barriers to participation in sport in all areas due to ability-based judgments, irrelevant norms, and conflicts. Therefore, the second aim was to ascertain how often ability-based theoretical concepts and terms linked to human ability enhancement and body-linked technologies were mentioned in the academic literature that covered participation barriers of disabled people in the sport in all areas. To fulfill the two aims, a review of academic abstracts and full texts employing Scopus and the 70 databases of EBSCOhost was performed, reporting hit count frequencies of over 35 ability-based theoretical concepts, eight human-enhancement related terms, and seven technology-related terms. For both aims, the results were similar. Ability-based theoretical concepts (ableism and disablism were mentioned the most) and human-enhancement linked terms were rarely to not at all mentioned in the full text and abstracts. Although the generic term technolog* had substantial hits, followed by assistive technolog*, techno-focused ability theoretical concepts were also rarely to not at all present. The results suggest many opportunities to use the terms searched for to engage with ability-based judgment, norm, and conflict challenges, including the techno-linked abilities and human ability enhancement challenges faced by the sport in all areas. This study was, to my knowledge, the first one to record the visibility of ability-based theoretical concepts in academic literature focusing on specific topics. This approach might be useful also to investigate other topics as ability-based judgments, norms, and conflicts are evident in the discussions of many other topics beyond sport in all areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
