Sport in Underdeveloped and Conflict Regions

Meredith A. Whitley, William V. Massey, Simon C. Darnell (University of Toronto, Canada) , Brett Smith

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Routledge
14 February 2019

Development studies; Sports & outdoor recreation

Over the past two decades, scholars and practitioners have taken a keen interest in the field of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP). These efforts have largely focused on and debated the merits of sport as a tool for development, diplomacy, and peacebuilding in under-resourced, underdeveloped, and conflict regions. Making sense of the positive contributions that sport can offer to such complex and multi-faceted issues requires understanding the various connections and meanings that individuals and communities ascribe to their sporting experiences. This book offers a unique outlet for research that engages with, rather than makes claims about, individuals and communities around the world. Diverse, contemporary, and thought-provoking examples of qualitative methods in the study of SDP are detailed, along with rich, meaningful, and provocative insights from these studies.

Readers are invited to think critically about the fields of enquiry, philosophical underpinnings, and methodologies utilised, as well as the audiences engaged and topics explored. We hope readers will join us in considering how these chapters can push the SDP field into more rigorous, methodologically innovative, and diverse approaches to research and evaluation, while also engaging with actors who are still often spoken for or about, rather than with. This book was originally published as a special issue of Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health.

Edited by: Meredith A. Whitley, William V. Massey, Simon C. Darnell (University of Toronto, Canada), Brett Smith
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780367234942
ISBN 10: 0367234947
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 14 February 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Adult education , Primary , Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Sport in under-resourced, underdeveloped, and conflict regions: an introduction 1. The methodological dance: critical reflections on conducting a cross-cultural comparative research project on ‘Sport for Development and Peace’ 2. Sport for development and peace: a call for transnational, multi-sited, postcolonial feminist research 3. Football as a terrain of hope and struggle: beginning a dialogue on social change, hope and building a better world through sport 4. Engaging the field through retrospective methods: a Cambodian story 5. Getting lost as a way of knowing: the art of boxing within Shape Your Life 6. The role of sport for youth amidst trauma and chaos 7. ‘I’m proud of what I achieved; I’m also ashamed of what I done’: a soccer coach’s tale of sport, status, and criminal behaviour 8. Sport as a tool for development and peace: tackling insecurity and violence in the urban settlement Cazuca´, Soacha, Colombia 9. Contextual and individual factors influencing the implementation effectiveness of sport for development and peace programmes: a comparative case study of conflict relief in Lebanon and Ukraine 10. ‘Look at what we can do with all the broken stuff!’ Youth agency and sporting creativity in sites of war, conflict and disaster 11. Changing methods and methods of change: reflections on qualitative research in Sport for Development and Peace

Meredith A. Whitley, PhD is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Sport-Based Youth Development at Adelphi University, USA. Her research explores the complex and multi-faceted roles of sport and sport for development programs in the lives of youth from under-resourced communities, along with the interrelated systems impacting youth and community development. William V. Massey, PhD　is an assistant professor in the College of Public Health at Oregon State University, USA. His research focuses on the role of sport, play, and physical activity on various markers of youth development, with a focus on traumatized youth and youth from under-resourced communities. Simon C. Darnell, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research focuses on the relationships between sport, international development and peace building efforts, the development implications of sports mega-events, and the place of social activism in the culture of sport. Brett Smith, PhD, is Professor and Head of Research within the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK. His research focuses on disability and the development of qualitative research. He is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise.