Sport, Development and Peace

Critical Global Challenges

AvJoel Rookwood

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

This volume offers a comprehensive exploration of the rapidly evolving landscape of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP), a critical approach to peacebuilding, economic development, and social transformation gaining increasing stature during the last twenty-five years.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-06-12
Mått:148 x 210 x 25 mm
Vikt:596 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Sustainable Development Goals Series
Antal sidor:357
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031869297

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Dr Joel Rookwood is director of Sport & Exercise Management at University College Dublin in Ireland, and is Head of Research at Aalborg Football Club in Denmark. Joel has led sport-for-development projects across six continents and has published widely in the fields of management, politics and international relations.

Innehållsförteckning

Sport for Development and Peace: current challenges and global developments.- Sustainability in/of sports-for-development-and-peace: tensions, challenges, possibilities.- Understanding the potential contribution of sport to the sustainable development agenda.- Studying sport-for-development in Africa as a means of reciprocal agency.- Using Ubuntu pedagogy to transform sports-for-development in sub-Saharan Africa.- Promoting peace and tolerance among soccer fans: examples from Brazil.- Leveraging sports mega-events: positioning the sport-for-development-and-peace agenda.- The role of special events in sport-for-development : leveraging opportunities.- Bicycles, gender and development – feminist ethics, mutuality and reflexivity.- Towards community-led sport for development.- Sustainable sport for development ? The role of informal sport in refugee settlement.- Examining a student-led, Global North, refugee and asylum-seeker football.- Positive disruptive development : tackling youth violence through local sports interventions.- Physical activity, health & incarceration: meanings of sport & physical activity in prisons.- Sport for Development and Peace: managing movement and mainstream.