Sport in Underdeveloped and Conflict Regions
Over the past two decades, scholars and practitioners have taken a keen interest in the field of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP). These efforts have largely focused on and debated the merits of sport as a tool for development, diplomacy, and peacebuilding in under-resourced, underdeveloped, and conflict regions. Making sense of the positive contributions that sport can offer to such complex and multi-faceted issues requires understanding the various connections and meanings that individuals and communities ascribe to their sporting experiences. This book offers a unique outlet for research that engages with, rather than makes claims abo…
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Weitere Autoren: Massey, William V. (Hrsg.) / Darnell, Simon C. (Hrsg.) / Smith, Brett (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-351-58528-6
- EAN: 9781351585286
- Produktnummer: 31318463
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 188 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 8'418 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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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.
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