Sport for Development and Peace: A Critical Sociology

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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 FONT-STYLE: italic 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 events and sporting celebrity in the context of development. Darnell questions the belief that sport can offer a 'solution' to enduring development issues. Drawing on the latest empirical research, the book is a thorough and timely analysis of the social and political implications of tying sport to development. Cover Half-title Title Copyright 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 Hegemony theory and the sociology of sport Foucauldian 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 International development and volunteerism Development 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 The bio-politics of SDP Social 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 There are competing discourses of development related to sports mega-events The 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 SDP and the ethics of development A new praxis for SDP Towards a critical pedagogy of SDP Material inequalities and social hierarchies The politics and meanings of sport ‘Re-imagining’ development through SDP Concluding thoughts and future questions References Notes Index A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S T U W Y