Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Sport and Leisure

Herausgeber: Fletcher, Thomas; Dashper, Katherine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume pulls together a range of case studies across a number of different sports and geographical areas that illustrate how sporting spaces and social agents negotiate their inclusion through actively producing, reproducing, sustaining and indeed, resisting, various manifestations of inequality. This book was published as a special i

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781032926889
• ISBN-10: 1032926880
• Artikelnr.: 71672323

Autorenporträt

Thomas Fletcher is a Senior Lecturer within Carnegie Faculty at Leeds Metropolitan University. Thomas's research interests include: 'race'/ethnicity, social identities, heritage, and equity and diversity in sport and leisure. Thomas's book, Sports Events, Society and Culture (co-edited with Katherine Dashper and Nicola McCullough) is due to be published by Routledge in early 2014. Katherine Dashper is a Senior Lecturer within Carnegie Faculty at Leeds Metropolitan University. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, social identities and human-animal studies, and she specialises in rural sport, leisure and tourism. She has two edited books - Sports Events, Society and Culture (with Thomas Fletcher and Nicola McCullough) and Rural Tourism: An international perspective - due for publication in 2014/15.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Diversity, equity and inclusion in sport and leisure
Section 1: Inclusionary politics and active recreation 2. Can we make a
difference? Examining the transformative potential of sport and active
recreation 3. The Civilised Skateboarder and the Sports Funding Hegemony
Section 2: Sport, Policy and inclusion 4. Sports clubs and civic inclusion:
Rethinking the poverty of association 5. Sports-based intervention and the
problem of youth offending: a diverse enough tool for a diverse society?
Section 3: Gender and sexuality 6. Enter the discourse: exploring the
discursive roots of inclusivity in mixed-sex martial arts 7. Not a job for
'girly girls': horseracing, gender and work identities 8. The Concepts
Underpinning Everyday Gendered Homophobia Based Upon the Experiences of
Lesbian Coaches Section 4: Race and ethnicity 9. Marketing Strategies
Within an African-Brazilian Martial Art 10. The making of an ethnically
diverse management: contested cultural meanings in a Dutch amateur football
club 11. Sport Controversy, the Media and Anglo-Indian Cricket Relations:
The 1977 'Vaseline Incident' in Retrospect Section 5: Supporting and
watching sport 12. Social Inclusion through Football Fandom: Opportunities
for Learning-Disabled People 13. Intolerance and joy, violence and love
among male football fans: towards a psychosocial explanation of 'excessive'
behaviours 14. The Role of Mediated Sports Programming on Implicit Racial
Stereotypes