Localizing Global Sport for Development

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This jointly authored book extends understanding of the use of sport to address global development agendas by offering an important departure from prevailing theoretical and methodological approaches in the field. Drawing on nearly a decade of wide-ranging multidisciplinary research undertaken with young people and adults living and working in urban communities in Zambia, the book presents a localised account that locates sport for development in historical, political, economic and social context. A key feature of the book is its detailed examination of the lives, experiences and responses of young people involved in sport for development activities, drawn from their own accounts. The book's unique approach and content will be highly relevant to academic researchers and post-graduate students studying sport and development in across many different contexts. -- .

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Localizing Global Sport forDevelopment is an exceptional account oflongitudinal sport for development (SfD) projects in the Zambian communities ofChawama and Lusaka, through the SfD organizations, EduSport, and Sport inAction.
RobbieMatz, University of Georgia Sport Management & Policy, InternationalReview for the Sociology of Sport

Author Bio

Iain Lindsey is Lecturer in Sport Policy in the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University

Tess Kay is Professor of Sport and Social Sciences and Theme Leader of Welfare, Health and Wellbeing at Brunel University London

Ruth Jeanes is Senior Lecturer in Sports Coaching and Community Development in the Faculty of Education at Monash University

Davies Banda is Senior Teaching Fellow in Sport Management and Sport Development within the Institute of Sport, Physical Education and Health Sciences at the University of Edinburghs Moray House School of Education