Sport management issues in an era of austerity

Parnell, Daniel; Spracklen, Karl; Millward, Peter

doi:10.1080/16184742.2016.1257552

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“…Research on the impact of austerity has shown that it has had major implications for society on areas including health (Cooper & Whyte, 2017), inequality (Atkinson et al, 2015), homelessness (Loopstra et al 2014) and education (Dorling, 2016). Whilst there has been much research on austerity and the community (see O'Hara, 2014), there has been very limited research on community sport in this austerity period (Parnell, Millward, & Spracklen, 2017), which is ironic, given sport's role in education, health and community cohesion (Coalter et al, 2007;Collins and Kay, 2014;Hunt et al, 2014;Kelly, 2011).…”

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Management strategies of non-profit community sport facilities in an era of austerity

Parnell

May

Widdop

et al. 2018

European Sport Management Quarterly

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Management strategies of non-profit community sport facilities in an era of austerity

Parnell

May

Widdop

et al. 2018

European Sport Management Quarterly

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“…Thus, it is important to re-iterate the call from others for further research into the impacts of austerity of sports organisations (e.g. Parnell et al, 2017) and their local communities but specifically argue the need to focus on the issue of stakeholder mobilisation to better understand how community groups come together and seek to influence sport-led regeneration schemes.…”

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‘It’s just a Trojan horse for gentrification’: austerity and stadium-led regeneration

Panton

Walters

2018

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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Austerity was the driving principle behind the UK Coalition Government Comprehensive Spending Review in October 2010, with local government facing a disproportionately high share of the spending cuts. Research has focused on the impact of 'austerity urbanism' (Peck, 2012; Watt and Minton, 2016) and urban regeneration (Dillon and Fanning, 2015; Pugalis, 2016), however there is relatively little focus on sports-led regeneration. This article presents case study research of the stadium-led regeneration project involving Tottenham Hotspur FC and the London Borough of Haringey, focusing on the community perceptions of urban regeneration. It has two aims: first, to understand the local authority's approach to regeneration in the context of the austerity agenda; and second, to understand how this approach was perceived by, and the impact on, those communities living within the geographical locality of the developments. Three themes emerged: first, that austerity led the local authority to adopt a pragmatic approach to regeneration; second, that regeneration in a period of austerity is perceived by local communities as a strategy of gentrification; and third, concerns over the lack of community consultation served as a stimulus for community engagement. Two implications arising from this research are that while community groups in Tottenham had limited success in gaining major changes to the stadium-led regeneration in Tottenham they have arguably been able to slow down the process. Moreover, they have been successful in bringing together diverse groups across the community to share knowledge in order to challenge further proposals from Haringey Council.

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“…There should be engagement in an open-ended bottom-up approach that critically assesses young people's needs by addressing their actual life situations and individual differences, and that considers more interpersonal and critical conceptualisations of 'development' (Haudenhuyse et al, 2012b). However, taking into account the broader context of social exclusion and development politics (Coalter, 2013;Darnell & Hayhurst, 2011), together with the impact of the current austerity climate in several 'first' world nations (Parnell, Spracklen, & Millward, 2016), the future participation in mainstream society of young people in socially vulnerable situations is likely to be less than successful if broader societal change (e.g., in education or poverty reduction policies) does not occur at the same time (Hayhurst, Giles, & Wright, 2016). Critical theories at the crossroads of sociology, pedagogy, and development studies (e.g., Freire's critical pedagogy or Sen's capability approach) might serve as valuable alternative pathways which lead beyond the dominant, symbolically violent assumptions that are present within contemporary society and therefore also in SFD.…”

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Urban Sport-for-Development Initiatives and Young People in Socially Vulnerable Situations: Investigating the ‘Deficit Model’

Nols

Haudenhuyse

Theeboom

2017

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Critical scholars have indicated that the assumptions underlying most sport-for-development (SFD) initiatives tend to align with a 'deficit model' of youth: young people from disadvantaged areas are uniformly deficient and in need of development, which can be achieved through sport (Coakley, 2011;Coalter, 2013). In this article, we investigated these assumptions within six urban SFD initiatives that work with young people in socially vulnerable situations in a 'first' world nation, Belgium. We conducted a survey at two moments in time amongst 14-to 25-year-old participants in order to test two assumptions: i) 'participants are deficient and in need of development'; and ii) 'participation in SFD initiatives leads to positive personal development'. We operationalised 'development' as the commonly used outcomes of perceived selfefficacy and self-esteem. These are 'household words' both inside and outside SFD research, practice, and policy and carry the assumption that boosting them will by itself foster positive outcomes. The findings refute the supposition that young people from disadvantaged urban areas are uniformly in need of more perceived self-efficacy and self-esteem and show that there is no simple and predictable change in participants' 'development'. We suggest that, in designing and researching programs, SFD stakeholders start from an open-ended bottom-up approach which is tailored to the actual life situations of young people and their individual differences and consider more interpersonal and critical conceptualisations of 'development'.

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Sport management issues in an era of austerity

Cited by 43 publications

References 19 publications

Management strategies of non-profit community sport facilities in an era of austerity

Management strategies of non-profit community sport facilities in an era of austerity

‘It’s just a Trojan horse for gentrification’: austerity and stadium-led regeneration

Urban Sport-for-Development Initiatives and Young People in Socially Vulnerable Situations: Investigating the ‘Deficit Model’

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