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Book SynopsisThe ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online.
In a context where striving for gender equity in relation to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals seems more pressing than ever before, Sport, Gender and Development: Intersections, Innovations and Future Trajectories brings together an exploration of sport feminisms to offer new approaches to research on Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) in global and local contexts.
Including postcolonial and decolonial feminist lenses by drawing upon fieldwork with organizations and individuals in Afghanistan, Uganda, Nicaragua, and India, Sport, Gender and Development reveals the complexities of development and gender discourses and how they operate on and through researchers, practitioners, and participants' bodies. Delving into a thoughtful engagement with the (dis)connections and comparisons across these diverging contexts, this book offers a critically reflexive account of what is transpiring in the transnational sport, gender and development field, while remaining sensitive to the importance of community context and local iterations.
Taking up emerging and contemporary feminist issues in sport related international development, this book advances empirical, conceptual, and theoretical developments in sport, gender and development.
Trade ReviewThis is a much anticipation and welcomed text, and widely exciting because of the nuanced coalescing of three subject matters: development, gender and sport, which are deeply important to me. I know I would simply pick the book up and look to read it, based on the bringing together of Hayhurst, Thorpe and Chawansky in one space. All brilliant feminist scholars in their own right. This book will undoubtedly hold significant appeal to many of us working in the sport for development, gender, space and will become a must have resource. Those new to thinking about sport for development through a gender lens would do well to make this text their start point! I look forward to having my own well handled, marked up copy and for years to come I have no doubt I will be regularly lifting it off my book shelf and saying to research students. This is a seminal text, make sure you are familiar with it, and the broader work of those who have contributed.
-- Rochelle Stewart-Withers is a Senior Lecturer at Massey University, New Zealand
Sport for development must urgently move beyond its missionary phase, especially after the exacerbating inequalities of COVID. For those who deploy sports to empower girls and young women and educate boys and men, this book is essential. The authors and their collaborators offer both caution and encouragement through frank theoretical insights and instructive case studies from the Global South. I found it learned, honest and extremely informative.
-- Bruce Kidd, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introducing Sport, Gender and Development: A Critical Intersection
Chapter 2. Doing Feminist Research in Sport, Gender and Development: Navigating Relationships, Ethics and Sweaty Concepts
Chapter 3. Economic Empowerment in Sport, Gender and Development; with Payoshni Mitra
Chapter 4. Action Sports for Gender Development
Chapter 5. Geographies of Gender and Embodiment in Sport for Development Work
Chapter 6. Entangled Human and Nonhuman Relations in Sport, Gender and Development; with Lidieth del Socorro Cruz Centeno
Chapter 7. The Ethics of Visibilities: Sport for Development Media Portrayals of Girls and Women
Chapter 8. Feminist Approaches to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL); with Nida Ahmad
Epilogue; Martha Saavedra
