Youth and Sport for Development

The Seduction of Football in Liberia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

Collison identifies that SDP has become fashionable withindevelopment agendas but it remains an aspirational image, a notion ofseduction, rather than a tested method of reintegration and youth developmentin post-conflict environments.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-07-07
Mått:148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt:464 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:241
Upplaga:16001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137524683

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Holly Collison is a Research Associate at LoughboroughUniversity, UK. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Liberia, WestAfrica, examining urban youth and the use of football within Sport forDevelopment and Peace projects. Her research interests include sport andinternational development, cultural studies, youth, notions of community, SDPand social anthropology. She is currently involved in a comparative researchproject examining the Sport for Development and Peace sector in multipleinternational locations.

Innehållsförteckning

1.Sport, Anthropology and Research Methodology.- 2: Land of the Free? The Originsof Conflict and Peace.- 3. Richie.- 4. In Pursuit of the Winners, SDP andFootball Interventions.- 5. Matadi: Structure and Power in a Post-ConflictCommunity.- 6. Becoming Somebody: Escaping from Youth-Hood.- 7.- Creating a NewCommunity.- 8. The Seduction of Football.- Epilogue: The final Whistle.