“Development” has become both a watchword and a fascination in sporting circles
worldwide. Yet sport officials, policy makers, and advocates often have relatively …

Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) has transformed from what some termed a “social
movement” to an institutionalized sector with numerous organizations and practitioners …

There is a widespread belief that sport participation inevitably contributes to youth
development because sport's assumed essential goodness and purity is passed on to those …

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme
and is available on www. bloomsburycollections. com. The role of sport in development …

I have spent the better part of the past twenty years entrenched in one ethnographic
research setting or another. My lengthy field experiences do not automatically qualify me as …

Rethinking Sports and Integration offers a critical cultural analysis of the idea that sport can
promote the integration of migrants and their descendants. It examines the origins of this …

This article offers a new approach for examining Muslim women in sport, which combines
the domains of sporting participation, consumption and representation. It proposes moving …

In their article in this volume, entitled 'An “international movement”? Decentering sport for
development within Zambian communities”, Iain Lindsey and Alan Grattan (2012) highlight …

This jointly authored book extends understanding of the use of sport to address global
development agendas by offering an important departure from prevailing theoretical and …

UN's Office on Sport for Development and Peace (UNOSDP) 3 explicitly connects sport to
peace building, child and youth development, as well as to the ongoing struggles to achieve …