ISBN:
9781472539540
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (193 p)
Series Statement:
Globalizing Sport Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Sport for Development and Peace : A Critical Sociology
DDC:
306.483091724 23
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The role of sport in development initiatives has grown dramatically over the last five years, now finding a place in the UN''s millennium development goals. In Sport and Development for Peace, Simon Darnell outlines the most recent sociological research on the role of sport in development initiatives. The book analyses the relationship between sport and international development and looks at what this reveals about socio-political economy. It addresses a gap in the literature by focusing on issues of politics, power and culture, particularly looking at volunteer experience, mega-sporting eve
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms; Introduction: Situating Sport-for-Development and the ''Sport for Development and Peace'' Sector; Connecting 'sport' to 'international development'; SDP: Terms and tenets; Social issues; Health and education; Economic development; Stakeholders; SFD: Historical and political context; A theoretical approach to SDP; Paradoxes of development and paradoxes in SFD; SDP as/and new social movements; Overview of the book; 1 Social Theory, the Sociology of Sport and the Study of SDP; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
Hegemony theory and the sociology of sportFoucauldian understandings of power and/in sport; Gramsci and Foucault: Neo-Marxist discourse; Sport, race and the post-colonial; Sport and/as human rights; Conclusions: Implications for studying SDP; 2 International Development Studies and SDP: Syntheses and Opportunities; Introduction; A short history of development practice and theory; The political economy of development inequality; Culture, development and SDP in the post-colonial; Development as struggle; Conclusion; 3 The SDP Intern/Volunteer Experience; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
International development and volunteerismDevelopment service within hegemonic relations; Development service and the maintenance of innocence; CGC and SDP interns; Sport and the hegemony of capitalist development; Race, gender and bio-politics; The emotional experiences of the SDP subject; Conclusion; 4 Development History and Politics: Investigating SDP; Introduction; Tensions in approaching development differently; SDP: Organization, structure and orientation; SDP: Organization and structure; SDP: Political focus and orientation; The political orientation(s) of SDP: Critical analyses
Description / Table of Contents:
The bio-politics of SDPSocial capital; The politics of inequality; SDP practice and politics: Three theses; Conclusion; 5 Sport, International Development and Mega-events; Introduction; The sociopolitical economy of sports mega-events; The development agenda of sports mega-events in the Global South; Three theses for understanding sports mega-events in/as development; Sports mega-events, and their governing bodies, increasingly desire to be involved with international development; SDP NGOs are increasingly attracted to mega-events
Description / Table of Contents:
There are competing discourses of development related to sports mega-eventsThe development possibilities and limitations of sports mega-events; Conclusion; 6 International Development and Sporting Celebrity; Introduction; Celebrity, development, sport: Possibilities and pitfalls; Sporting celebrity in SDP: Insights from the field; Drawing attention to development; Raising capital; Sport organizations and philanthropy; Role modelling; Celebrity athletes and the politics of change; Conclusion: Critical considerations; 7 Conclusion: Critical Praxis and Pedagogy in SDP; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
SDP and the ethics of development
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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