ISBN:
9781137524683
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (248 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Collison, Holly Youth and Sport for Development : The Seduction of Football in Liberia
DDC:
300
Keywords:
Ethnology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Map of Matadi -- Preface -- Seduction -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1: Sport, Anthropology and Research Methodology -- Sport and Anthropology: Late to the Game -- My Journey -- Building an Identity -- Gender -- Race -- Judging the Observations -- Consequences of My Race and Gender: Staging and Performances -- Adaptive Methods for Data Collection -- Working with Youth and Marginal People -- Limitations and Reflections -- References -- 2: Land of the Free? The Origin of Conflict and Peace -- The Foundation of Liberia -- The 'Tribal' People: True Liberians? -- Political Trends
Abstract:
Outbreak of Civil Conflict -- Initial Intervention -- The Strongman: Charles Taylor -- Post-War Relations and Structures -- References -- 3: Richie -- Reference -- 4: In Pursuit of the Winners: SDP and Football Interventions -- Development -- Sport and Development -- SDP: Adoption and Evolution -- The United Nations and SDP -- Peacekeeping: Increased Demands: Increased Failure? -- The Need for a New Strategy -- UN, the IOC and Sport -- Evolution Within Sport and Development Practices -- Sport and Human Development? -- Fundraising to Implementation: Evolution of the Ideal -- The Price of Sport
Abstract:
SDP for Success Stories: Images in Black and White -- Don Bosco Homes and Its Partners -- A Goodwill Gesture: Shirts for the Children, Photos for the Donor -- References -- 5: Matadi: Structure and Power in a Post-Conflict Urban Community -- Community -- The Concept of Community: Those Like Us? -- Neighbourliness and Forming Groups -- Palava Versus Lecture -- Youth and Adults -- Spaces -- Housing -- Employment, Money-Making and Hustling -- Free Time -- Community Organisation, Security and Its Effect on Youth -- Money-Making, Status, Safety and Survival -- References
Abstract:
6: Becoming Somebody: Escaping from Youthhood -- Youth -- Ageing in Liberia: Traditions -- Governmental Perspectives -- Considerations of Youth -- The Question of Youth -- Matadi Youth Inside the Fence -- The Youth Centre Rhetoric and Vision -- Quick to be Satisfied: Youth Opportunities in the Game -- The Commander, the General and the Coach -- It Is a Money-Making Game -- Zatti and the White Coach: Youth-Adult Relationship Reconsidered -- Pa K -- Zatti Players Outside the Fence -- Adults Go to Church, Youths Rest -- A Necessary Evil: Youths and Girls -- Zatti Fathers
Abstract:
The Things that Liberian Men and Women Do Wrong -- Going Round in Circles -- References -- 7: Creating a New Community -- The Structure of Zatti FC -- Hierarchy -- Creating a Football Community -- Meta-Society -- Performance, Characterisation and Identity in the Fence -- The Field of Play and the Characters on It -- He Is Rude -- The Krahn Brothers -- I Can Make It: The Need for Characters and Unity -- Bernardo: The Uncontrollable Individual -- Meta-Societies and Play Communities -- Social Value of Play: Creating a Play Culture -- Tension in the Community: Conflict in the Game
Abstract:
Adults Affecting Play: Football as a Form of Social Control
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