Sport for Development and Peace in Action

Webb, Andrew; Richelieu, André

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“…For example, in their own research on SDP organizations in Kingston, Jamaica, Darnell et al (2018a) found that an organization that had traditionally dealt with health and HIV/AIDS prevention turned its focus to sport when this opened up the possibility of obtaining funding and expertise from a UK-based international NGO. In effect, actors such as money, expertise, technical support, ‘and even the concept of sport’s development utility’ (Darnell et al, 2018a: 95) played a part in holding SDP together – and in revealing power dynamics between the global North and global South (also see Stoddart, 2012; Webb and Richelieu, 2016; Millington and Wilson, 2017).…”

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‘The bike breaks down. What are they going to do?’ Actor-networks and the Bicycles for Development movement

McSweeney

Millington

Hayhurst

et al. 2020

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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This article reports on an empirical study of ‘Bicycles for Development’ (BFD) – a nascent movement whereby used bicycles are collected (often in the global North) and distributed in development contexts (often in the global South) with the aim of achieving a range of positive social outcomes (e.g. access to education). Drawing from interviews ( n = 32) with participants from 19 BFD organizations, and informed by actor-network theory (ANT), the analysis presented herein specifically highlights three key factors that facilitate and/or hinder BFD work: (a) government regulations that potentially stem or ease the flow of bicycles into development contexts; (b) the bicycle’s material constitution, and specifically its sturdiness (or lack thereof); and (c) environmental conditions that impact how bicycles are made, distributed and used. A key theme that cuts across these findings is the potential for non-humans to cause ‘frictions’ that potentially disrupt, divert, but also help in realizing the programmes of action of BFD organizations. We consider the relevance of these findings for both the BFD movement in particular and the wider Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) movement in general. Based on study findings, we argue for ANT as a useful framework for achieving a widened analytical focus and thus for delivering more robust accounts of development contexts under study.

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‘The bike breaks down. What are they going to do?’ Actor-networks and the Bicycles for Development movement

McSweeney

Millington

Hayhurst

et al. 2020

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…The SDP sector has (had to) become better at monitoring and evaluation and identify how they are 'making a difference' (Darnell, 2013;Donnelly, et al, 2011;Harris, 2018;Harris & Adams, 2016;Levermore, 2011;Nicholls, Giles & Sethna, 2010;Webb & Richelieu, 2016). However, for those working on ' sport-for-peace' initiatives there is a lack of consensus on what 'peace'…”

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Sport and Peacebuilding in Israel/Palestine

Dart

2019

Journal of Global Sport Management

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Those working in the Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) sector often claim that sport can, and does, make a difference. This article assesses this claim in the context of the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians. Attention is given to the 'peace' component within the SDP initialism and on what 'peace' means in this conflict. An assessment is made of the work of thirteen organisations engaged in peacebuilding in this region. The article identifies that many of the sport-for-peace schemes involve Israelis and Palestinians/Arabs within Israel with few schemes seeking to involve Palestinians who live in the West Bank, in Gaza or in refugee camps in neighbouring countries. It is concluded that sport is not an appropriate vehicle for peacebuilding between Israelis and Palestinians because there is no peacea necessary precursor for reconciliation. Realpolitik, in the form of Israeli territorial expansion and the Palestinian struggle for basic human rights, leaves sport-for-peace schemes attempting to build a bridge too far. 1

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“…Rather than operate autonomously, organizations increasingly maintain a relationship with the state through various fiduciary or service provision relationships as government grants, service provision contracts, and public-private partnerships (King, 2006). These arrangements make NGOs more susceptible to external demands to adopt and internalize organizational practices of accountability and other measures of "proving worthiness" desired by today's funding and political bodies (Gordon, 2013;Webb & Richelieu, 2016 (Kwon, 2013;Baldridge, 2014;Kelly, 2012). For example, there is evidence that links operational insecurity to a tendency in organizations to overemphasize the dangers, inadequacies, and "riskiness" of youth when communicating with funders -a strategy that, while it may help to win funding, also diminishes the agency of youth, youth workers, and their communities (Baldridge, 2014), fuels processes of territorial stigmatization (Wacquant, 2008), and legitimizes intervention (Kelly, 2012).…”

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“…The "operational insecurity" (Kelly, 2012) and intense competition among youth organizations for funding has led to an increased focus on "proving worthiness." This involves proving that programs have the power to produce transformative change, as well as proving to funders that an organization is a worthy investment (Gordon, 2013;Webb & Richelieu, 2016).…”

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A Good Place for What? Placing “Value” in Youth Centers

2019

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In this paper, we investigate the discursive context of community-based youth centres to critically interrogate ideas and practices concerning leisure, youth, and youth centres. Using publicly available documents and data collected with youth at two community-based youth centres, we ask, what is the "good"' that they do for young people, and how do young people negotiate these discourses? We argue that the youth centres operate in a discursive tension, constructed as a place to change by the (organizational) bodies that established them, and a place to chill by the (youth) bodies that used them. We trace how these discourses entered into the everyday lived contexts of youth centres including their program logics, measures of success, and constructions of youthful subjectivities. We close with a discussion of the implications of the research in terms of how youth and recreation practitioners might use youth centres to support young people's leisure.

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Sport for Development and Peace in Action

Cited by 16 publications

References 38 publications

‘The bike breaks down. What are they going to do?’ Actor-networks and the Bicycles for Development movement

‘The bike breaks down. What are they going to do?’ Actor-networks and the Bicycles for Development movement

Sport and Peacebuilding in Israel/Palestine

A Good Place for What? Placing “Value” in Youth Centers

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