ABSTRACT
This chapter examines legacy's problematic and nebulous nature and addresses the academic sidelining of Paralympic and disability legacy. It problematises the linguistic and philosophical bases of legacy by drawing upon the work of Wittgenstein. The epistemic struggles engendered by attempts to evaluate legacy deliberates upon the assumed efficacy of sporting spectacles to leave a legacy. The prospective analysis examines disability legacy in the Olympic and Paralympic bid documents. There is a clear inadequacy of managerial legacy evaluations and their taxonomies to grasp the deeper complexities of the debate of London 2012's disability legacy. To redress this inadequacy and to structure the discussion, the chapter presents a basic framework that considers an overview of social, cultural and economic elements. It simply conjects that future Paralympic Games will be leveraged by similar disability protest groups to highlight the economic inequality and insecurity of disability.
