UrbanDig Project: sport practices and artistic interventions for co-creating urban space

Chatziefstathiou, D.; Iliopoulou, Eirini; Magkou, Matina

doi:10.1080/17430437.2018.1430485

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“…We appreciate here the intersections and revisions by Edward Soja (1996;1998) and others' (e.g. Bhabha & Rutherford, 2006;Chatziefstathiou, Iliopoulou & Magkou, 2019;Gannon, 2010) related work on the political, socio-cultural and emancipatory potential of the third space. While articulations of the third space vary, we draw on the points of coherence with regards to: tangible and intangible dimensions of space; the nuanced connections and hybridity between ideals, practices and actions; and, the processes of new knowledge and (re)presentation (particularly with regards to education and learning) that emerge in and through spatial interactions over time.…”

Section: Toward a Spatial Framework Of Grassroots Football Volunteeringmentioning

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Conceptualising landscapes of learning in the United Kingdom’s volunteer football sector

Koutrou

Kohe

2021

Sport, Education and Society

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From grassroots to mega-event level, the sport sector has long-relied on volunteers to function effectively. While the nature of sport volunteering varies, scholars have identified that volunteerism is built around characteristics (e.g., altruism, civic participation, acquisition of social capital, personal and professional development) that draw individuals together and contribute to a sense of community (Eley & Kirk, 2002;Griffiths & Armour, 2014). In providing sites for life-skills training, mentoring, coaching, and/or leadership, volunteer communities in sport are also informal and formal learning environments. Notwithstanding research examining learning opportunities within individual volunteer experiences (Bartle & Craig, 2017; Misener, Doherty & Hamm-Kerwin, 2010), work remains on articulating the ideological, structural and experiential complexities of volunteering as pedagogical terrain.To illuminate some of these educational nuances, this paper interrogates the experiences of a cohort of regional football volunteers in the United Kingdom. Drawing on spatial theory, we utilise a holistic framework comprising thought, production and action space to understand volunteer communities and opportunities for learning therein. We draw data from questionnaires, and focus groups undertaken with volunteers working in one of the UK's largest provinces. We contend that football volunteerism comprises a potentially rich context in which an array of learning opportunities exist that can be nurtured and enacted upon over volunteers' life courses. Educational characteristics of volunteering, or the creation of effective learning communities in the sector are not, however, always guaranteed. Rather, individual and collective investments may be required by both volunteers and supporting organisations. 2Furthering recent criticisms of the wider sport sector, and beyond affording greater appreciation of volunteer learning, we advocate for a rethink of organisation's ethical responsibilities and resourcing vis-à-vis educational duties of care and sustainability.

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Section: Toward a Spatial Framework Of Grassroots Football Volunteeringmentioning

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Conceptualising landscapes of learning in the United Kingdom’s volunteer football sector

Koutrou

Kohe

2021

Sport, Education and Society

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“…However, 'the way in which differences between "sport" and "the arts" are reinforced by the strategies [they] have examined does not bode well for efforts to integrate the two' (Long and Bianchini 2018,17). Examples include a study by Chatziefstathiou, Iliopoulou, and Magkou (2018) on the use of a combination of sport and the arts to achieve social objectives involving reclaiming urban space and the urban environment as a common resource for all.…”

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Mobilising non-participant youth: using sport and culture in local government policy to target social exclusion

Ekholm

Sol

2019

International Journal of Cultural Policy

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The role of sport and cultural practices in policy initiatives tends to be assessed in both cases in terms of their assumed social benefits. However, the areas of sport and culture are often understood separately in research. Through an analysis of interviews with key local policymakers and civil servants in two Swedish municipalities, the aim of this article is to explore how sport and culture are formed as means to promote social policy objectives regarding young people. In addition, we reflect on the political significance of this in relation to the development of local policy. The analysis demonstrates how a discourse of urban segregation and unequal opportunities underpins actions to mobilise non-participant and at-risk youth. This is achieved by establishing centres for sport and culture, and by enabling an educational approach which focuses on participation, empowerment and good citizenship. Reasons for mobilising practices involving culture and sport overlap, though each area of policy appears to be differently underpinned by discourses of enlightenment and conformity. Differences in emphasis between the discourses on sport and culture are discussed in relation to scientific discourse on the social utility of each policy area.

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UrbanDig Project: sport practices and artistic interventions for co-creating urban space

Cited by 2 publications

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Conceptualising landscapes of learning in the United Kingdom’s volunteer football sector

Conceptualising landscapes of learning in the United Kingdom’s volunteer football sector

Mobilising non-participant youth: using sport and culture in local government policy to target social exclusion

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