Sport for decolonization

Simon C. Darnell and Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst
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Simon C. Darnell: Department of International Development Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst: Faculty of Physical Education and Health, Graduate Department of Exercise Sciences University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Progress in Development Studies, 2011, vol. 11, issue 3, 183-196

Abstract: Sport is now mobilized as a novel and effective means of achieving international development goals, leading to an increasingly institutionalized relationship between sport and development. While there is recent evidence of the effectiveness of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) programmes and policies, research has also drawn attention to the relations of power that underpin the movement and, in particular, to colonizing tendencies in SDP initiatives. This article explores this critical research and considers it against the insights and importance of a development praxis concerned with decolonization. We argue that SDP scholars and activists would be well served to consider the main tenets of a decolonizing framework and we put forth some theoretical and methodological imperatives for decolonizing sport for development.

Keywords: decolonization; sport; action research; development praxis; post-colonialism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1177/146499341001100301

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