Sport, Gender and Development
Intersections, Innovations and Future Trajectories
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 288
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Emerald Studies in Sport and Gender
- EAN: 9781838678661
- Utgivelsesår: 2021
- Bidragsyter: Hayhurst, Lyndsay M.C. (York University, Canada); Thorpe, Holly (University of Waikato, New Zealand); Chawansky, Megan (Otterbein University, USA)
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In a context where striving for gender equity in relation to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals seems more pressing than ever before, Sport, Gender and Development: Intersections, Innovations and Future Trajectories brings together an exploration of sport feminisms to offer new approaches to research on Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) in global and local contexts.
Including postcolonial and decolonial feminist lenses by drawing upon fieldwork with organizations and individuals in Afghanistan, Uganda, Nicaragua, and India, Sport, Gender and Development reveals the complexities of development and gender discourses and how they operate on and through researchers, practitioners, and participants'' bodies. Delving into a thoughtful engagement with the (dis)connections and comparisons across these dive
