Sport in Underdeveloped and Conflict Regions

Herausgeber: Whitley, Meredith A; Darnell, Simon C; Massey, William V

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Produktbeschreibung

This book details sport-based qualitative research that focuses on or involves individuals and communities in under-resourced, underdeveloped, and conflict regions around the world, along with insights regarding how best to do this work. It was first published as a special issue of Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 173mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780367234942
• ISBN-10: 0367234947
• Artikelnr.: 56721775

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Cazucä, 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