Anthropology - Anthropology, sport, and international development: an ambivalent relationship

Susan Brownell

Chapter 1 in Handbook of Sport and International Development, 2023, pp 11-21 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Because of the highly local nature of anthropology’s primary research method, ethnographic fieldwork, it has been critical of the tendency for development agencies and non-governmental organisations to impose universalising values and practices on local communities, while lacking competence in local values and practices. At the same time, increasing numbers of anthropologists are finding employment in the development sector because their expertise is needed. Very few anthropologists have conducted full-fledged research projects on sport development, and the newness of the field is seen in the fact that all such research was done since 2010 in the context of Ph.D. dissertations. The conclusions have largely echoed the negative assessment of development that characterises the discipline as a whole. However, there are opportunities for anthropologists to develop their own projects and attract levels of funding and institutional support that the discipline does not typically obtain. Such research offers fertile ground for research on biopower and neoliberalism in the global economy.

Keywords: Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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