Sport and Communities
Over the past three decades there has been widespread commitment to an understanding that sport can play a key role in community development. The role of sport within communities has been promoted with a wide range of goals in mind. These include environmental outcomes, encouragement of civic pride, enhancement of personal confidence and self-esteem, and the promotion of social cohesion, as well as the fostering of a fit and healthy workforce.
To address these issues, a number of programmes have been funded and supported to develop the role of sport in communities worldwide and to increase participation and access to sport and physical activities in disadvantaged areas. In addition we are witnessing the development of new sports communities through social media including Twitter and Facebook.
The belief is that we need to revisit the concept of community and sport and investigate our current understanding of these terms in view of the evolving role of sport in a range of national settings. This book will present a platform upon which this process can begin and offer a fundamental re-evaluation of the relationship that currently exists between sport and communities throughout selected parts of the world.
This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
David Hassan is Professor of Sport Policy and Management at the University of Ulster. He is the current Deputy Executive Academic Editor of Sport in Society, an international, peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis Ltd. (an imprint of Routledge). In December 2006 he was presented with the Award of Distinguished Research Fellowship by the University of Ulster in recognition of his outstanding contribution to research. Dr Hassans research expertise concerns the relationship between sport and national identity, the politics of sport and sport governance.
Sean F. Brown received his PhD in 2013 from Northeastern University, Boston, USA. His primary research interests include sport and community, social capital and urban sociology. He currently works as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago, where he is exploring links between social capital and low-income families.
Sport and Communities
Edited by
David Hassan and Sean F. Brown
First published 2014
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Contents
David Hassan
Matthew Nicholson, Kevin Brown and Russell Hoye
Sean F. Brown
Jamie A. Cleland
Terry Engelberg, James Skinner and Dwight Zakus
Romain Roult, Jean Marc Adjizian, Sylvain Lefebvre and Lucie Lapierre
David Hassan and Rachael Telford
Mary Valentich
Caroline Ringuet-Riot, Graham Cuskelly, Chris Auld and Dwight H. Zakus
Sean F. Brown
Series Editor: Boria Majumdar
SPORT AND COMMUNITIES
Sport in the Global Society Contemporary Perspectives
Series Editor: Boria Majumdar
The social, cultural (including media) and political study of sport is an expanding area of scholarship and related research. While this area has been well served by the Sport in the Global Society series, the surge in quality scholarship over the last few years has necessitated the creation of Sport in the Global Society: Contemporary Perspectives. The series will publish the work of leading scholars in fields as diverse as sociology, cultural studies, media studies, gender studies, cultural geography and history, political science and political economy. If the social and cultural study of sport is to receive the scholarly attention and readership it warrants, a cross-disciplinary series dedicated to taking sport beyond the narrow confines of physical education and sport science academic domains is necessary. Sport in the Global Society: Contemporary Perspectives will answer this need.
Titles in the Series
Australian Sport
Antipodean Waves of Change
Edited by Kristine Toohey and Tracy Taylor
Australias Asian Sporting Context
1920s and 1930s
Edited by Sean Brawley and Nick Guoth
Bearing Light: Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement
Edited by John J. MacAloon
Critical Support for Sport
Bruce Kidd
Disability in the Global Sport Arena
A Sporting Chance
Edited by Jill M. Clair
Diversity and Division Race, Ethnicity and Sport in Australia
Christopher J. Hallinan
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Sport and Leisure
Edited by Katherine Dashper and Thomas Fletcher
Documenting the Beijing Olympics
Edited by D.P. Martinez and Kevin Latham
Ethnicity and Race in Association Football
Case Study analyses in Europe, Africa and the USA
Edited by David Hassan
Fan Culture in European Football and the Influence of Left Wing Ideology
Edited by Peter Kennedy and David Kennedy
Football in Brazil
Edited by Martin Curi
Football in Southeastern Europe
From Ethnic Homogenization to Reconciliation
Edited by John Hughson and Fiona Skillen
Football Supporters and the Commercialisation of Football
Comparative Responses across Europe
Edited by Peter Kennedy and David Kennedy
Footballs Relationship with Art: The Beautiful Game?
John E. Hughson
Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008
To Remember is to Resist
Edited by Russell Field and Bruce Kidd
Global Perspectives on Football in Africa
Visualising the Game
Edited by Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher and Ciraj Rassool
Global Sport Business
Community Impacts of Commercial Sport
Edited by Hans Westerbeek
