Sport and Social Exclusion

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Tackling social exclusion should be a central aim of any civilised social policy. In this meticulously revised and updated new edition of his groundbreaking study, Sport and Social Exclusion, Mike Collins has assembled a vast array of new evidence from a range of global sources to demonstrate how the effects of social exclusion are as evident in sport as they are in any area of society. The book uses sport as an important sphere for critical reflection on existing social policy and explores sport's role as a source of initiatives for tackling exclusion. It examines key topics such as: • What is meant by 'social exclusion' • How social exclusion affects citizenship and the chance to play sport • How exclusion from sport is linked to poverty, class, age, gender, ethnicity, disability, and involvement in youth delinquency, and living in towns or countryside • How exclusion is linked to concepts of personal and communal social capital. It uses four revised and five new major case studies as detailed illustrations, notably Be Active, Birmingham, the national PE and Youth/School Sport strategy, Positive Futures and Street Games. . Sport and Social Exclusion features a wealth of original research data, including new and previously unpublished material, as well as important new studies of social exclusion policy and practice in the UK and elsewhere. This revised edition surveys all the most important changes in the policy landscape since first publication in 2002 and explores the likely impact of the London Olympic Games on sport policy in the UK. The book concludes with some typically forthright commendations and critiques from the author regarding the success of existing policies and the best way to tackle exclusion from sport and society in the future. By relating current policy to new research the book provides an essential guidebook for students, academics and policy makers working in sport policy and development." Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Table of Contents......Page 8 List of figures......Page 11 List of tables......Page 12 Foreword......Page 14 Author's preface and acknowledgements......Page 17 Glossary......Page 19 Constraints on playing sport......Page 22 Benefits claimed for playing sport......Page 25 Outline of the book......Page 27 From absolute and relative poverty to social exclusion......Page 31 Measuring poverty and social exclusion......Page 36 The geography of exclusion......Page 41 Sport social class and exclusion......Page 44 Exclusion, sport and citizenship......Page 46 Introduction: why we know so little about the economic gradient in sport and leisure......Page 52 The context of anti-poverty policies and leisure......Page 53 Sport and poverty, and prices......Page 55 Local authority anti-poverty strategies and leisure cards/passports......Page 59 Case Study 1: leisure cards in Leicester and Oxford......Page 65 Case Study 2: gym for free/be active, Birmingham......Page 70 Conclusions......Page 75 Introduction: children and poverty......Page 77 The early years: home, play and primary schooling......Page 79 Developing sports interests: secondary schools......Page 83 Dropping out or sustaining interest? Sports clubs and out-of school schemes......Page 89 Case study 3: the rise (and premature demise) of the PE, School Sport, Club Links/Young People's Strategy......Page 93 Developing commitments: sports performance and excellence......Page 97 Case study 4: sport for secondary schoolchildren: go for gold and Champion Coaching in Nottinghamshire......Page 100 Conclusions......Page 108 Introduction: sport and the gendered experience of social exclusion......Page 111 Female experiences of poverty and social exclusion......Page 112 Girls, women, sport and social exclusion......Page 114 Girls' and women's empowerment through sport......Page 118 Girls' and women's inclusion in and through sport......Page 120 Conclusions......Page 126 Introduction: trends in aging and social exclusion......Page 128 Ageing, leisure and sport......Page 132 Conclusions......Page 137 Introduction: from race to ethnicity, from segregation to cohesion......Page 139 Ethnicity, disadvantage, exclusion and cohesion......Page 142 Multi-cultural participation in sport......Page 148 Sport, ethnicity and exclusion......Page 153 Interventions......Page 155 Conclusions......Page 157 Introduction: attitudes, policies and structures regarding disability and sport......Page 160 Disability, poverty and social exclusion......Page 165 Disability, mental illness, learning difficulties and sport......Page 166 Case study 5: disability and sport and leisure in Leicester......Page 174 Conclusions......Page 179 Introduction: youth and crime - the facts......Page 181 Causes and triggers of youth delinquency, and interventions......Page 187 The growing interest in sport as an intervention in youth delinquency......Page 191 Case study 6: intervening to make a difference - Street Sport, Stoke as a primary intervention and Solent Sports Counselling as a tertiary one......Page 193 Case Study 7: Positive Futures (PF)......Page 207 Midnight basketball and other recent schemes......Page 209 Conclusions......Page 211 Rural England - idyll or exclusion?......Page 214 Sport and leisure services and participation......Page 216 Sport and exclusion in urban England......Page 223 Implementing inclusion policies and programmes......Page 233 The Third Way and social capital in the form of sports clubs......Page 245 Case study 8: Street Games......Page 251 Conclusions......Page 254 12 Conclusions......Page 255 Summary of findings......Page 256 Emerging areas - sport and sexuality, sport for asylum seekers and refugees and sport and religion......Page 260 Conclusion: equity, non-participation and exclusion......Page 264 Postlude: after the coalition, a deluge?......Page 274 References......Page 279 Author index......Page 322 Subject index......Page 334