Michael Collins, Tess Kay, Mike Collins

Sport and Social Exclusion

Second edition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tackling social exclusion should be a central aim of social policy. In this fully revised and updated new edition of his groundbreaking study, Sport and Social Exclusion, Mike Collins has assembled a vast array of evidence from a range of global sources to demonstrate how the effects of social exclusion are as evident in sport as they are in any area of society. The book uses sport as an important case study for critical reflection on existing social policy and explores sport's role as a source of new initiatives for tackling exclusion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 675g
• ISBN-13: 9780415568807
• ISBN-10: 0415568803
• Artikelnr.: 41748347

Autorenporträt

Michael Collins' poems have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, and he is also the author of the chapbooks How to Sing when People Cut off your Head and Leave it Floating in the Water and Harbor Mandala and the full-length collection Psalmandala. He teaches creative and expository writing at New York University and the Hudson Valley Writers' Center and is the Director of Studies at Why There Are Words Press.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. From Absolute Poverty to Social Exclusion 3. Poverty:
The Core of Exclusion 4. Exclusion, Education and Young People's Sport 5.
Sport, Gender and Social Exclusion 6. Exclusion and Older People in Sport
7. Social Exclusion and Sport in a Multicultural Society 8. Sport and
Exclusion by Disability 9. Sport and Youth Delinquency and Crime 10. Rural
and Urban Perspectives on Exclusion and Sport 11. Policy Implementation:
Stronger Citizenship and Communal Social Capital Through Sport? 12.
Conclusions

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1. Introduction 2. From Absolute Poverty to Social Exclusion 3. Poverty: The Core of Exclusion 4. Exclusion, Education and Young People's Sport 5. Sport, Gender and Social Exclusion 6. Exclusion and Older People in Sport 7. Social Exclusion and Sport in a Multicultural Society 8. Sport and Exclusion by Disability 9. Sport and Youth Delinquency and Crime 10. Rural and Urban Perspectives on Exclusion and Sport 11. Policy Implementation: Stronger Citizenship and Communal Social Capital Through Sport? 12. Conclusions

Rezensionen

"This second edition of Sport and Social Exclusion (first published in 2002) provides a substantially updated, more topical survey of the major inclusivity/exclusivity issues that sport participants, administrators, coaches, and scholars face. Collins (Loughborough Univ., UK) neatly balances key concepts with examples and case studies to illustrate how now, perhaps more than ever before, sport practitioners should be mindful of organized sport's capacity to create both positive outcomes (emotional well-being, physical health, social inclusion) and negative outcomes (social divisions, exclusion, exploitation, violence, racism, sexism, ableism). This outcome-orientated book is a must read for those interested in counterbalancing sport studies' prevailing positivism with an approach that more critically interrogates sport as an important, yet certainly imperfect, cultural formation. Summing Up: Highly recommended" -J. Newman, Florida State University, CHOICE Reviews, May 2015