Sport, Development and Environmental Sustainability
This is the first book to consider the intersections of sport, international development and environmental sustainability. It explores the tensions between sports potential contribution to the environment and its rather poor record to date.
Bringing together a diverse group of scholars who approach the topic from various disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, the book provides both critical and optimistic perspectives on the place of sport in sustainable development. Chapters examine and question how and whether sport contributes to sustainable development on an international scale. Attention is also paid to the place and role of Indigenous knowledge in sustainable Sport for Development, particularly as an alternative to modernization and/or in support of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.
Sport, Development and Environmental Sustainability is important reading for academic researchers, students and policy-makers in the fields of kinesiology, sport studies, sport sociology, leisure studies, sport management, sport media, physical cultural studies, environmental studies and sustainability and international development studies.
Rob Millington is Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Brock University, Canada. His research focuses on how international NGOs such as the United Nations and International Olympic Committee mobilize sport for development in policy and practice, in both historical and contemporary contexts. His postdoctoral work considered what role, if any, sport can play in meeting the UNs Sustainable Development Goals.
Simon C. Darnell is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research focuses on the relationship between sport, international development and peace-building, the development implications of sports mega-events and the place of social activism in the culture of sport. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Sociology of Sport Journal and sits on the editorial boards of five other journals, including the Journal of Sport for Development. He has served as a guest editor for issues of Third World Quarterly and Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health.
Routledge Studies in Sport Development
Series Editors
Richard Giulianotti
Loughborough University, UK and University of Southeast Norway
B. Christine Green
George Mason University, USA
The Routledge Studies in Sport Development series showcases high-calibre work within the vibrant, diverse and rapidly expanding field of sport and development. It includes books in two broad areas: firstly, the development of sport, focusing on the various ways in which sport is delivered, for example through building sport facilities, training coaches and athletes, improving sport performance, increasing public participation in sport and strengthening the governance, management, marketing and delivery of sport, and secondly, Sport for Development and Peace, examining how sport is used for different non-sporting social benefits, such as peace-building and conflict reduction, health education, gender empowerment, community development, tackling crime, improving education, promoting positive youth development and advancing the social inclusion of marginal populations. The series is committed to diversity in theory and method, is multi-disciplinary in approach and includes work centring on local, national and transnational issues and processes, and on the global North and/or South.
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Routledge Handbook of Sport for Development and Peace
Edited by Holly Collison, Simon C. Darnell, Richard Giulianotti and P. David Howe
First published 2020
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Kyle S. Bunds is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management at North Carolina State University, USA. His research and teaching examine the connection between sport and the environment generally, and sport, water and air pollution more specifically. His work, which is primarily grounded in political economic theory, has been published in numerous academic journals, including Sport Management Review; European Sport Management Quarterly; Sport in Society; Critical Studies in Media Communication; Communication, Culture, & Critique; Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies; and Water Resources: IMPACT. In addition to his scholarship, Kyle has also served as guest editor for a special issue on political economics for the Journal of Amateur Sport, and a special issue on sport, physical culture and the environment in the Sociology of Sport Journal.
Tanya Halsall is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Royals Institute of Mental Health Research affiliated with the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her primary research areas are in positive youth development, program evaluation and community-based research with First Nations, Mtis and Inuit (FNMI) youth. Her specific research interests are in community-based participatory research and evaluation of sport-based programming for youth that promotes engagement, leadership and well-being. She has also been involved in evaluating system-level initiatives in child and youth mental health at the regional, provincial, national and international levels. These collaborative initiatives have applied youth engagement strategies and placed a focus on the promotion of wellbeing in FNMI youth.
Michael Heine is an Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology at Western University, Canada, and the Director of the International Centre for Olympic Studies, specializing in social theory, qualitative methods and historical sport sociology. His specific research interests include Indigenous Games in sub-Arctic and Arctic Canada, discursive analyses of economic processes in sport, and the Olympic commodification of civic spaces.
