The forgotten body: history of sport and physical education for people with physical disabilities in Taiwan, 1945–1971

Cheng Hao Huang*, P. David Howe, Mei Chun Lin, Kai xiao Jiang

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研究成果: 雜誌貢獻期刊論文同行評審

摘要

The history of sport and physical education (PE) for people with physical disabilities is dominated by an ideological discourse that, through the process of omission, argues that the developments in the field are Western in origin. In this article, we examine how Taiwan independently developed a new medium of sport and PE for individuals disabled by the epidemics of poliomyelitis during the mid-twentieth century. We first studied the period of Taiwanese history from the end of the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in 1945 until 1971. To explore this transformation, we engaged with Foucauldian genealogy to study the epidemics between the 1940s and the 1960s in Taiwan, when the number of children having physical paralysis increased dramatically. The high number of people infected with poliomyelitis turned it into a significant social problem that warranted being addressed by the government. Some of the children with physical disabilities were placed in institutions, and sport and PE were a part of their daily routine. Physical rehabilitation was extensively conducted through sport and PE and was administered on people with physical disabilities in institutions. By encouraging sport and PE for the disabled, the rehabilitative movement’s ultimate goal was to restore the functions of impaired bodies and efface the disabled in the society.

原文英語
頁(從 - 到)2184-2198
頁數15
期刊Sport in Society
24
發行號12
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 2021

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 文化學習

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