Academics: Graduate Research
Danielle is currently working on her Ph.D. In Phys.Ed & Rec at the University of Alberta. She works with Dr.Markula in the Body Movement and Culture Research Group.
Her current research interests include: supercrips, "reverse" integration, policing & crossing the able/disabled divide, and post-sturcturalist, queer and crip theories and practices.
Like her filmmaking, community outreach and public speaking, Danielle's research is explicitly geared towards social change.
Existing publications come from Danielle's master's thesis (supervised by Dr. Goodwin), entitled "Governing Bodies: A Foucauldian Critique of Paralympic Power Relations".
Danielle's research is funded by the Canada Vanier Graduate Scholarship.
CV Highlights
Publications
Peers, D. (2009). (Dis)empowering Paralympic histories: Absent athletes and disabling discourses. Disability & Society, 24(5), 653-665.
Peers, D. (2009). Review of Steve Bailey’s Athlete First: A History of the Paralympic Movement. Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, 26, 187-188.
Spencer-Cavaliere, N., Peers, D. L., & Watkinson, E. J. (2008). Integrating able-bodied athletes in disability sport: Athletic identity and competitive/ elite women’s wheelchair basketball players. Pulse, 21(1), 9-10.Presentations at Scholarly Conferences
Peers, D., Paralympians, patients and freaks: Re-conceptualizing Paralympic progress narratives. Presentation at North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference, University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario, November 2009.
Peers, D., Pity and pedestals: Expert discourses about athletes with disabilities. Presentation at To Remember is to Resist: 40 Years of Sport and Social Change International Conference, University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, May 2008.
Peers, D., Producing the Paralympian: A genealogy in progress. Presentation at York Critical Disability Studies Graduate Student Conference, York University in Toronto, Ontario, May 2008.Volunteer Community Involvement
2008- :KingCrip Productions - Co-founder and Co-chair
2008 : Canadian Francophone Games – Spokesperson
2005- : Muscular Dystrophy Canada – National Ambassador
2005- : Alberta Northern Lights Wheelchair Basketball – Board Member
2006- :CAAWS – Homophobia in Sport Committee Member
2005-2007: Wheelchair Basketball Canada– Women’s Commissioner
2005-2007: Wheelchair Basketball Canada– Athlete’s Representative
2002-2005: Inferno Wheelchair Basketball – Chairperson and Co-founder
