Disability Sports: Arena for Global Recognition of Persons with Disability
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disability sports, social recognition, Honneth, Philippines, PWDsAbstract
In this paper, I explore ways making disability sports as spheres for global recognition for the persons with disability (PWDs). I argue that the PWDs, being one of most ostracized and disenfranchised social class in the global society, have been subjected to bullying, discrimination and other forms of disrespect and thus, the most that they could do is to struggle for the recognition of their rights and privileges like any other human persons in the world. Through an appropriation of Axel Honneth’s theory of the struggle for recognition, I attempt to show that in participating to different disability sports, PWDs have gained social recognition and have developed their self-confidence, self-respect and self-esteem.
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