Sport And Development Policy In Africa

Author : Marion Keim
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920689206
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport and Development Policy in Africa written by Marion Keim and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the first of its kind, and the focus on sport and development policy is a new and exciting initiative towards developing a Global Policy Index in the future.ÿ

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ISBN 13 : 9781920689414
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport and Development Policy in Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kirstin Hallmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461489059
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Sport Development written by Kirstin Hallmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to provide an overview of perspectives and approaches to sports development focusing on sport systems, sport participation and public policy towards sports. It includes twelve European countries covering all regions of Europe and eleven countries from around the globe. The objective is to present an overview of the diversity of approaches taken to sport development, focusing on the different sport systems and how sport is financed, the underlying applications of sport policy and how it is reflected in sport participation. This book takes a comparative approach which is reflected in each chapter following a similar structure. The diversity of sports systems in Europe and other continents and their (historical) context is shown. Thereby a range of policy approaches underpinning sport development around the world are presented, making it of interest to both academics and policy-makers concerned with sports economics and policy.

Author : Jimoh Shehu
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 2869784015
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Sport and Development in Africa written by Jimoh Shehu and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To many young people, the term sport has an exhilarating ring; to many older persons, it signifies recreation and leisure. From colonial times, it has been viewed as a means of social control. Increasingly, it is being touted by governments and donor agencies as a self-evident tool of Africas development. How accurate are these individual, romantic and moral notions of sport? In this volume, eleven African scholars offer insightful analyses of the complex ideological and structural dimensions of modern sport as a cultural institution. Drawing on various theories and cross-cultural data, the contributors to this volume highlight the various ways in which sport norms, policies, practices and representations pervasively interface with gender and other socially constructed categories of difference. They argue that sport is not only a site of competition and physical recreation, but also a crossroad where features of modern society such as hegemony, identities, democracy, technology, development and master statuses intertwine and bifurcate. As they point out in many ways, sport production, reproduction, distribution and consumption are relational, spatial and contextual and, therefore, do not pay off for men, women and other social groups equally. The authors draw attention to the structure and scope of efforts needed to transform the exclusionary and gendered nature of sport processes to make them adequate to the task of engendering Africas development. Gender, Sport and Development in Africa is an immensely important contribution to current debates on the broader impacts of sport on society. It is an essential reading for students, policy-makers and others interested in perspectives that interrogate the grand narratives of sport as a neutral instrument of development in African countries.

Author : Cem Tinaz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000374270
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport and Development in Emerging Nations written by Cem Tinaz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, this book examines the strategies of leaders of emerging nations to use sport as a tool for reaching social, economic, cultural, political, technological or environmental goals and gaining international prestige. It assesses whether sport can really be an effective tool in international development. The book explores the unique challenges, issues and opportunities offered by sport for development in emerging nations. Bringing together case studies of sport and development in countries including Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Poland, Qatar, South Africa, South Korea and Turkey, the book looks at policies designed to achieve development through, by and for sport, and whether they have achieved their socio-economic objectives. It considers the way that emerging nations have used major international sports events as political and developmental projects, as well as the importance of sporting infrastructure, professional leagues, participation programmes and the influence of nationalism and ideology. With a truly global perspective, this book is important reading for any student, researcher or policy-maker with interest in sport management, sport development, development studies, international economics, globalisation or political science.

Author : Roger Levermore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230584403
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport and International Development written by Roger Levermore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the capacity of sport to act both as a conduit for traditional development assistance activities and as an agent for change in its own right, this book argues that sport can contribute to the development process, particularly where traditional development approaches have difficulty in engaging with communities.

Author : Nico Schulenkorf
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800378920
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Sport and International Development written by Nico Schulenkorf and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With sport sustaining a prominent place in international development policymaking, discourse and delivery, this comprehensive Handbook provides a contemporary, multi-disciplinary overview of state-of-the-art scholarship in this critical space. It investigates the role that different sport initiatives – from community-focused projects to large-scale events – can play across a great variety of development contexts.

Author : Andrew Adams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000008541
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Owns Sport? written by Andrew Adams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating collection of essays explores the complex economic, political, cultural and social claims over sport, from multi-disciplinary perspectives including philosophy, history, political science and management. The book seeks to uncover some of the tensions and dilemmas wrapped up within aspects of owning sport and attempts to make sense of the place, role, meaning and function of sport when set against the broad notion of ownership. It considers the relationships between individuals, organisations and institutions, and investigates the power of grassroots participants from the bottom up. In presenting contemporary analyses from many viewpoints, not simply the commercial, it asks the reader to think of sport differently. Important reading for scholars and students with an interest in sport and society, sport management, policy or development, as well as those studying political science, economics, philosophy and development studies, this is also a useful resource for practitioners, managers and those working strategically with sport.

Author : Holly Collison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315455153
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Sport for Development and Peace written by Holly Collison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport and physical activity are now regularly used to promote social and economic development, peacebuilding and conflict resolution, on an international scale. The emergence of the ‘Sport for Development and Peace’ (SDP) sector, comprised of governments, NGOs, sport organizations and others, reveals a high level of institutionalization of this activity, while SDP now constitutes an important element of the scholarly analysis of sport. This volume analyses and critically discusses the central elements of, and research issues within, the field of SDP and also provides a series of case studies (substantive and geographic) of key research. It is the most holistic and far-reaching text published on this topic to date. Featuring multidisciplinary perspectives from world-leading researchers and practitioners from around the world, the book covers a wide range of topics, including SDP structures, policies and funding streams, how SDP relates to human rights, social exclusion and corporate social responsibility, SDP and gender, SDP and disability, SDP and health, SDP and homelessness, and SDP and the environment. The Handbook of Sport for Development and Peace is a vital resource for researchers, students and educators in the fields of sports studies, physical education, sport for development and peace, sport-based youth development, sport and politics, sociology of sport, and sport policy.

Author : Nils Asle Bergsgard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136364684
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport Policy written by Nils Asle Bergsgard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport Policy: a comparative analysis of stability and change builds on the growing general interest in the comparative study of sport policy and the more specific interest in processes of policy change and issues associated with policy convergence. In stark contrast to many other areas of public policy such as education, personal welfare and health care there is a paucity of theoretically informed comparative studies in sport. Over recent years there has been a steady increase in public investment in sport and frequently, as a consequence, a sharper debate about how public resources should be used. However, there has been little analysis of the factors that shape the generation of domestic sport policy and little attempt to identify the variables that might influence the policy process. Sport Policy: a comparative analysis of stability and change provides a theoretically informed analysis of the sports systems in Canada, England, Germany and Norway. These economically advanced countries are carefully selected to enable the investigation of the significance of variables and because they share a number of socio-economic and sports-related characteristics, which provides the text with a unique breadth and depth of coverage. This text is a vital addition to the general paucity of literature in this area and is written by an internationally renowned author team.