Wheelchair Basketball Teams as “Second Families” in Highland Ecuador
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Keywords
disability, Ecuador, athletics
Abstract
This paper examines the concept of second families as social networks that complement primary families as forms of social support and identify formation. Based on analysis of narratives of three wheelchair basketball players, I argue that second families play a crucial role the performance of masculinity and personal development for physically disabled men.
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Staples, J. (2011). At the intersection of disability and masculinity: exploring gender and bodily difference in India. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 17(3), 545-562.
Titchkosky, T. (2003). Disability, self, and society. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press.
Torres Dávila, M. S. (2004). Género y Discapacidad: Más allá del sentido de la maternidad diferente. Quito, Ecuador: Abya-Yala.
Tremain, S. (2002). On the Subject of Impairment. In M. Corker & T. Shakespeare (Eds.), Disability/postmodernity : embodying disability theory (pp. 32-47). London and New York: Continuum.
Biehl, J., Good, B. J., & Kleinman, A. (2007). Subjectivity : ethnographic investigations. Berkeley: University of California press.
Biehl, J., & Moran-Thomas, A. (2009). Symptom: Subjectivities, Social Ills, Technologies. Annual Review of Anthropology, 38, 267.
Borrero Vega, A. L., & Vega Ugalde, S. (1995). Mujer y migración : alcances de un fenómeno nacional y regional. [Ecuador]: Abya Yala : ILDIS.
Bourdieu, P. (1977). Outline of Theory of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cazar Flores, R., Molina Yépez, D., & Moreno Pramatárova, M. (2005). Ecuador: La Discapacidad en Cifras. Quito: CONADIS: Consejo Nacional de Discapacidades.
CONADIS. (2006). Síntesis Del Segundo Plan Nacional de Discapacidades Del Ecuador Retrieved 21 May, 2007, from http://www.conadis.gob.ec/plann.htm
Das, V., & Addlakha, R. (2001). Disability and Domestic Citizenship: Voice, Gender, and the Making of the Subject. Public Culture, 13(3), 511-511.
Das, V., & Das, R. K. (2007). How the Body Speak: Illness and the Lifeworld Among the Urban Poor. In J. Biehl, B. J. Good & A. Kleinman (Eds.), Subjectivity : ethnographic investigations (pp. 66-97). Berkeley: University of California press.
Davis, J. (2000). Disability Studies as Ethnographic Research and Text: research strategies and roles for promoting social change? Disability and Society, 15(2), 191-206.
Earle, S. (1999). Facilitated Sex and the Concept of Sexual Need: disabled students and their personal assistants. Disability & Society, 14(3), 309-323.
Ferguson, P., & Asch, A. (1989). Lessons from life: Personal and parental perspectives on school, childhood, and disability. In D. Bilken, D. L. Ferguson & A. Ford (Eds.), Schooling and Disability (pp. 108–141). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Ferguson, P. M. (2002). A Place in the Family: An Historical Interpretation of Research on Parental Reactions To Having a Child with a Disability. Journal of Special Education, 36(3), 124-130.
Frank, G. (2000). Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Garland-Thomson, R. (2007). Shape Structures Story: Fresh and Feisty Stories about Disability. Narrative, 15(1), 113-123.
Grech, S. (2008). Living with disability in rural Guatemala: Exploring connections and impacts on poverty. International Journal of Disability, Community & Rehabilitation, 7(2).
Gutmann, M. C. (1997). Trafficking in Men: The Anthropology of Masculinity. Annual Review of Anthropology, 26, 385-409.
Hyden, L. C., & Antelius, E. (2011). Communicative disability and stories: Towards an embodied conception of narratives. Health Health, 15(6), 588-603.
Ingstad, B., & Whyte, S. R. (1995). Disability and Culture: An Overview. Berkeley, CA: University of California.
Ingstad, B., & Whyte, S. R. (Eds.). (2007). Disability and local and global worlds. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Manderson, L. (2011). Surface tensions : surgery, bodily boundaries, and the social self. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
Mattingly, C., & Garro, L. C. (2000). Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Mauss, M. (1973). Techniques of the Body. Economy and Society, 2(1), 70-88.
McKee, L. (1980). Ideals and Actualities: The Socialization of Gender: Appropriate Behavior in an Ecuadorian Village. , Ithaca, New York, Cornell University. Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Miranda-Galarza, H. (2009). Ni chicha ni limona: Ethical Dilemmas of a Sibling on Doing Disability Research in Ecuador. Ethics and social welfare, 3(1), 87-94.
Mitchell, D. T., & Snyder, S. L. (2010). Disability as Multitude: Re-working Non-Productive Labor Power. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 4(2), 179-193.
Murphy, R. F. (1987). The Body Silent. New York: W.W. Norton.
Pribilsky, J. (2007). La Chulla Vida: Masculinity and Transnational Migration in the Ecuadorian Andes and New York City. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
Rapp, R., & Ginsburg, F. (2001). Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship. Public Culture, 13(3), 533-556.
Rattray, N. A. (2012). Embodied Marginalities: Disability, Citizenship, and Space in Highland Ecuador. Ph.D., University of Arizona, Tucson.
Rattray, N. A. (in press). Contesting Space and Disability in Highland Ecuador. City & Society, 25(1).
Shuttleworth, R. P. (2001). Symbolic Contexts, Embodied Sensitivities, and the Lived Experience of Sexually Relevant Interpersonal Encounters for a Man with Severe Cerebral Palsy. In L. Rogers & B. B. Swadener (Eds.), Semiotics and Dis/ability (pp. 75-96). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Shuttleworth, R. P. (2004). Disability/Difference. In C. E. a. M. Ember (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures (pp. 360-369): Springer.
Shuttleworth, R. P., & Kasnitz, D. (2004). Stigma, Community, Ethnography: Joan Albon's Contribution to the Anthropology of Impairment-Disability. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 18(2), 139-161.
Smith, B., & Sparkes, A. C. (2005). Men, sport, spinal cord injury, and narratives of hope. Social Science & Medicine, 61(5), 1095-1105.
Staples, J. (2011). At the intersection of disability and masculinity: exploring gender and bodily difference in India. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 17(3), 545-562.
Titchkosky, T. (2003). Disability, self, and society. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press.
Torres Dávila, M. S. (2004). Género y Discapacidad: Más allá del sentido de la maternidad diferente. Quito, Ecuador: Abya-Yala.
Tremain, S. (2002). On the Subject of Impairment. In M. Corker & T. Shakespeare (Eds.), Disability/postmodernity : embodying disability theory (pp. 32-47). London and New York: Continuum.
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Nicholas Rattray, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington
Nick Rattray is an adjunct professor of anthropology at Indiana University, Bloomington interested in embodiment, health disparities, and space.