Sport, social development and peace [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Kevin Young, Chiaki Okada

• Pubblicazione: Bingley, [England] : , : Emerald, , 2014; ©2014
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.483
• Soggetto topico: Sports & Recreation - Sociology of Sports; Sociology: sport & leisure; Sociology; Sports - Sociological aspects
• Altri autori: YoungKevin <1959-> OkadaChiaki <1948->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Ethical challenges and principle hurdles in sport-for-development work / Simon C. Darnell -- Middle-walkers : negotiating middle ground on the shifting terrain of sport, peace and development / Brian Wilson -- Using postcolonial feminism to investigate cultural difference and neoliberalism in sport, gender and development programming in Uganda / Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst -- Service-learning : an educational model for sport and community development / Ashleigh M. Huffman, Sarah J. Hillyer -- The contributions of sport to HIV/AIDS awareness / Chiaki Okada -- The role of physical education in the prevention of youth violence : a life skills-based approach in El Salvador / James Mandigo ... [et al.] -- The FIFA World Cup 2010 and its legacy on "sport and development" practices in South African cities / Naofumi Suzuki -- An examination of cross-cultural mentorship in Alberta's future leaders program / Miriam Galipeau, Audrey R. Giles -- From genocide to community sport : a Cambodian life history / Chiaki Okada, Kevin Young -- Where's the "evidence?" Reflecting on monitoring and evaluation within sport-for-development / Ruth Jeanes, Iain Lindsey -- Mega-events, sport legacies and sociologically informed impact assessment / Michael Atkinson, Amanda De Lisio -- Insights and investigations of the social legacies in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games : the Olympic Games impact (OGI) study / Robert VanWynsberghe, Caitlin Pentifallo.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume is part of the early systematic inquiry into the analysis of sport as a developmental device. The book features an international roster of global experts. The chapters represent three groups: theory and philosophy, empirical research in on-the-ground case studies, and those using circumspection to construct cases regarding evaluation.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sport, social development and peace
• ISBN: 1-78350-886-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786668803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Research in the sociology of sport ; ; v. 8.