Abstract
Sport-for-development (SfD) refers to the use of sport to meet non-sport goals, such as health promotion, gender empowerment, social inclusion, and peace building and conflict resolution. SfD research is often concerned with the impacts, outputs and overall efficacy of SfD activity and programming, and particularly the question of whether and/or how sport (broadly defined) may contribute positively to social development, and on an international scale. At the same time, critical SfD research has also emerged. In particular, a specific critical insight to emerge from this literature is that the current conceptualization, mobilization and implementation of SfD aligns more with processes of social reproduction than with the pursuit of social change. With this critique in mind, in this chapter we explore ways in which SfD might be (re)conceptualized as a commitment to social change more so than social reproduction. We do so by first revisiting the notion (and importance) of human rights as a foundation for SfD, in both theory and practice. We then use this (re)commitment to human rights as a departure point from which to discuss two possible conceptual models of and for sport-for-development—capabilities and Global Citizenship—that we posit may support a (re)committed approach to rights and justice, and in so doing hold more potential to generate social transformation than reproduction.
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Darnell, S.C., Smith, T., Houston, C. (2021). Revisiting Sport-for-Development Through Rights, Capabilities, and Global Citizenship. In: Maguire, J., Liston, K., Falcous, M. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization and Sport . Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56854-0_27
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