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Sport and International Development

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Roger Levermore

    1. Football Industry Group, University of Liverpool Management School, UK

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  2. Aaron Beacom

    1. University College Plymouth, St. Mark & St. John, UK

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Part of the book series: Global Culture and Sport Series (GCS)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Sport and Development: Mapping the Field

    • Roger Levermore, Aaron Beacom
    Pages 1-25

  3. Sport-in-International Development: Theoretical Frameworks

    • Roger Levermore
    Pages 26-54

  4. Sport-in-Development: Accountability or Development?

    • Fred Coalter
    Pages 55-75

  5. A Delicate Balance: Major Sport Events and Development

    • Scarlett Cornelissen
    Pages 76-97

  6. Disability Sport and the Politics of Development

    • Aaron Beacom
    Pages 98-123

  7. Dilemmas and Opportunities in Gender and Sport-in-Development

    • Martha Saavedra
    Pages 124-155

  8. On the Backs of Peer Educators: Using Theory to Interrogate the Role of Young People in the Field of Sport-in-Development

    • Sara Nicholls
    Pages 156-175

  9. Getting to Know You: Using Sport to Engage and Build Relationships with Socially Marginalized Young People

    • Tim Crabbe
    Pages 176-197

  10. Southern Perspective on Sport-in-Development: A Case Study of Football in Bamenda, Cameroon

    • Jude Fokwang
    Pages 198-218

  11. Sport as International Aid: Assisting Development or Promoting Under-Development in Sub-Saharan Africa?

    • Gerard Akindes, Matthew Kirwin
    Pages 219-245

  12. Opportunities, Limitations, Questions

    • Roger Levermore, Aaron Beacom
    Pages 246-268

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 269-276
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About this book

Investigating the capacity of sport to act both as a conduit for traditional development assistance activities and as an agent for change in its own right, this book argues that sport can contribute to the development process, particularly where traditional development approaches have difficulty in engaging with communities.

Reviews

'Sport and International Development...is a welcome addition to this developing academic area and provides an informative account illustrating the diverse ways sport is used for itnernational development'.

- International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

'The book is interesting in its theory-based analysis of a highly practical development strand. Sport and International Development helps to look at the issue from many different angles and enables the reader to ask whether sport really is an appropriate tool for social change'

- Development in Practice

'Sport and International Development provides a solid foundation, and it is a useful tool...The collection addresses the contentious issues in the field today and offers answers to how sport can be a contributor to meaningful social change in the developing world. Because of this, the book is helpful, both to academics and practitioners, in helping to frame the way we think about sport-in-development programs through a variety of lenses.'

- Impumelelo: The Interdisciplinary Electronic Journal of African Sports

Editors and Affiliations

  • Football Industry Group, University of Liverpool Management School, UK

    Roger Levermore

  • University College Plymouth, St. Mark & St. John, UK

    Aaron Beacom

About the editors

GERARD AKINDES is a doctoral student at the University of Ohio, USA JERRY BINGHAM is the Research& Policy Manager at UK Sport, the body charged by Government with the task of leading sport in the UK to world-class success plus a range of other responsibilities FRED COALTER is Professor of Sports Policy at the University of Stirling, UK SCARLETT CORNELISSEN is Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa TIM CRABBE is Professor of the Sociology of Sport and Popular Culture at Sheffield Hallam University, UK and a founding member and Director of Substance, a new co-operative social research company based in Manchester JUDE FOKWANG is Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa MATTHEW KIRWAN is doctoral student in the Political Science department at Michigan State University, USA and a research assistant with the Afrobarometer SARA NICHOLLS is a graduate student at the University of Ottawa in the collaborative Sociology of Sport and Women's Studies program LORNA READ is Associate Director of Programs and Research at the Sports NGO Right To Play in Toronto, Canada MARTHA SAAVEDRA is the Associate Director of the Center for African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA

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