Simon Darnell

Sport for Development and Peace (eBook, ePUB)

A Critical Sociology

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 initiatives has grown dramatically over the last five years, now finding a place in the UN's millennium development goals. In 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849665919
• Artikelnr.: 38453837

Autorenporträt

Simon Darnell is a Lecturer in Sport in the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University, UK. His main research focus is the social and political dimensions of sport-for-development. He also conducts research into international sport policy, with a focus on Cuba, as well as the role of sport in promoting global citizenship. He is the author of Sport for Development and Peace: A Critical Sociology (2012, Bloomsbury Academic). His work has also been published in the Sociology of Sport Journal, Development in Practice, and the Journal of Global Citizenship and Equity Education.