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Martial Meziani
Other affiliations: Paris Descartes University
Bio: Martial Meziani is an academic researcher from École Normale Supérieure. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sociological imagination & Comparative research. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 13 publications receiving 29 citations. Previous affiliations of Martial Meziani include Paris Descartes University.
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08 Feb 2017
TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that the ecological approach developed in these two activities is based on an "ethics of care" perspective which focuses on human vulnerability, and that social actors are adapting to a context which has the potential to provide income and new status.
Abstract: Using a sociological perspective, the article shows that masters of capoeira in Brazil and boxing coaches in France have adopted an ‘ecological’ approach to society, particularly when they are working with people with disabilities. The comparative research presented in this paper is based on ethnographic data. The authors demonstrate that the ecological approach developed in these two activities is based on an ‘ethics of care’ perspective which focuses on human vulnerability. At the same time, social actors are adapting to a context which has the potential to provide income and new status. This situation differs from what is traditionally observed in care studies. Boxing coaches and masters of capoeira are developing a ‘strategic-functionalist’ approach whereby they demonstrate the educational and welfare functions of their respective practices. By doing so, they seek to occupy a more important place in the social arena by meeting disability-related expectations and new challenges linked to inclusion.
10 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the social participation of people with disabilities in capoeira and boxing was investigated. But they did not find that disability did not prevent social participation, and the degree of socio-political participation was higher in boxing, because disabled boxers had to stand up for disability rights in order to be officially recognized within the federal boxing system.
Abstract: This research focuses on the social participation of people with disabilities practising capoeira in Brazil and boxing in France. From a multi-sited ethnographic research, we observed that disability did not prevent social participation. On the one hand, capoeira and boxing are based on cultural values through which vulnerability and alterity are seen positively. On the other hand, the degree of socio-political participation is higher in boxing, because disabled boxers have had to stand up for disability rights in order to be officially recognized within the federal boxing system. Conversely, in capoeira, disabled capoeiristas have to follow the path of the master to be accepted, which gives them position for potential increase in the social participation of disabled people.
4 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define the valeur et le sens attribues aux capacites corporelles, en tant que puissance d’agir, and argue that the objective of capacité is tributaire d'un environnement qui soit capacité pour chacun, puis nous montrons en quoi la reconnaissance subjective de celles-ci depend d'une culture qui so it capacitaire pour tous.
Abstract: Cet article aborde la valeur et le sens attribues aux capacites corporelles, en tant que puissance d’agir. L’approche ecologique du handicap aide a penser cette question, en replacant les possibilites physiques d’une personne dans un contexte plus large. En effet, la valeur des capacites est necessairement situee dans un environnement materiel et social, mais aussi culturel, c’est-a-dire suspendue a une toile de significations. A partir d’une etude sur le baskin (recente innovation sportive), nous soulignons a quel point l’expression objective des capacites est tributaire d’un environnement qui soit capacitant pour chacun, puis nous montrons en quoi la reconnaissance subjective de celles-ci depend d’une culture qui soit capacitaire pour tous. D’ailleurs, face a la pluralite des capacites qui sont au monde, le reel pouvoir de l’homme (comme individu ou comme civilisation) n’est-il pas de s’approprier activement le sens qu’il veut leur donner ? Cette liberte hermeneutique lui permet de ne pas faire du biologique un determinisme auquel se soumettre, mais de negocier, de composer ou de creer avec celui-ci, en elaborant sa signification a l’interieur d’un cadre normatif qu’il produit. C’est cette autonomie qui permet a l’etre humain de se constituer en “homme capable” dans sa propre vulnerabilite, en augmentant sa puissance d’agir et son pouvoir d’etre soi-meme.
4 citations
TL;DR: The concept de jeu paradoxal has also been used to define the capoeira as mentioned in this paper, a motrice motrice a part of the Capoeira ensemble, which is a melange of danse, lutte, rituel, and other disciplines or activites.
Abstract: Le present travail se propose de definir la capoeira sous un nouvel angle. Habituellement consideree comme un melange de danse, de lutte, de rituel et de bien d’autres disciplines ou activites, nous avancons le postulat qu’il s’agit d’une activite dont la coherence est propre a toutes les academias. Nous proposons pour ceci d’utiliser le concept de jeu paradoxal, de P. Parlebas. Cette reflexion s’appuie sur un terrain ethnographique de sept ans dans une academie parisienne, ainsi que de visites d’academies en France et au Bresil. Il s’agira pour nous de montrer en quoi la capoeira est bien une activite motrice a part, dont les structures n’ont pas ete pensees jusque-la par le langage de la societe dominante.
3 citations
01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a vision holistique de l'enseignement, in which the notion de besoins educatifs particuliers ne serait plus seulement un appui pour la prise en compte des differences, and the cle de l"accessibilite de l education a toutes et tous et la source d'une vision nouvelle ou le commun ne======s'oppose plus au singulier.
Abstract: L'EPS et les activites physiques a visee educative ouvrent pour l'ecole inclusive un espace d'innovation dont il s'agit d'explorer
les enjeux sociologiques, historiques et didactiques. Mais cet ouvrage invite aussi plus largement a une vision holistique de l'enseignement,
dans laquelle la notion de besoins educatifs particuliers ne serait plus seulement un appui pour la prise en compte des differences,
voire du handicap, mais la cle de l'accessibilite de l'education a toutes et tous et la source d'une vision nouvelle ou le commun ne
s'oppose plus au singulier.
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TL;DR: In the 1966 paperback edition of a publication which first appeared in 1963 has by now been widely reviewed as a worthy contribution to the sociological study of deviant behavior as discussed by the authors, and the authors developed a sequential model of deviance relying on the concept of career, a concept originally developed in studies of occupations.
Abstract: This 1966 paperback edition of a publication which first appeared in 1963 has by now been widely reviewed as a worthy contribution to the sociological study of deviant behavior. Its current appearance as a paperback is a testimonial both to the quality of the work and to the prominence of deviant behavior in this generation. In general the author places deviance in perspective, identifies types of deviant behavior, considers the role of rule makers and enforcers, and some of the problems in studying deviance. In addition, he develops a sequential model of deviance relying on the concept of career, a concept originally developed in studies of occupations. In his study of a particular kind of deviance, the use of marihuana, the author posits and tests systematically an hypothesis about the genesis of marihuana use for pleasure. The hypothesis traces the sequence of changes in individual attitude
2,650 citations
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01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: A brief overview of the status of the Convention as at 3 August 2007 is presented and recent efforts of the United Nations and agencies to disseminate information on the Convention and the Optional Protocol are described.
Abstract: The present report is submitted in response to General Assembly resolution 61/106, by which the Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto. As requested by the Assembly, a brief overview of the status of the Convention as at 3 August 2007 is presented. The report also contains a brief description of technical arrangements on staff and facilities made necessary for the effective performance of the functions of the Conference of States Parties and the Committee under the Convention and the Optional Protocol, and a description on the progressive implementation of standards and guidelines for the accessibility of facilities and services of the United Nations system. Recent efforts of the United Nations and agencies to disseminate information on the Convention and the Optional Protocol are also described.
2,115 citations
28 Nov 2018
1,939 citations
01 Nov 2003
TL;DR: For Michel Foucault, notre conception de la folie comme "maladie mentale" is the produit of notre culture and de notre history as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Pour Michel Foucault, notre conception de la folie comme « maladie mentale » est le produit de notre culture et de notre histoire
245 citations