Sport for Development and Peace

Simon Darnell is with the Department of International Development Studies, Dalhousie University.

Sport and International Development: A Critical Sociology Simon C. Darnell, PhD. Introduction - Situating sport-for-development and the SDP movement Connecting 'Sport' to 'International Development' 1. Sport-for-Development: Historical and Political Context 2. Sport for Development and Peace (SDP): terms and tenets 3. Stakeholders 4. A Theoretical Approach to SDP 5. Methodology 6. Paradoxes of development and paradoxes of sport for development 7. SDP: A New Social Movement? 8. Overview of the Book Chapter 1 - Sport Sociology and the SDP movement 1. Introduction 2. Hegemony theory and the Sociology of Sport 3. Foucauldian theories of power and sport 4. Neo-Marxist Discourse 5. Sport and the Post-colonial 6. Sport and/as Human Rights 7. Conclusions: Implications for sport in development Chapter 2 - International Development Studies and SDP: syntheses and opportunities 1. Introduction 2. A Short History of Development Practice and Theory 3. The Political Economy of Development Inequality 4. Culture, Development and SDP in the post-colonial 5. Development as Struggle 6. Conclusion Chapter 3 - The SDP intern/volunteer experience 1. Introduction 2. Subjectivities in Development and SDP 3. Interns' experiences 4. Conclusions Chapter 4 - SDP, development theory, and policy & politics 2. Major Issues 2.1 First World/Third World 2.2 Modernization residue 2.3 Relations of power 2.4 Sustainability 2.5 Monitoring and Evaluation 3. The Political Orientation of SDP Chapter 5 - Sport, international development and mega-events 1. Introduction 2. The Socio-Political Economy of Sports mega-events 3. The Development Agenda of Sports Mega-events in the South 4. Three theses for understanding sports mega-events in/as development 5. Sports mega-events: Possibilities and Limitations 6. Future Research 7. Conclusion Chapter 6 - Sport and international development: investigating sporting celebrity 1. Introduction 2. Celebrity, Development, Sport: Possibilities and Pitfalls 3. Sporting Celebrity in SDP: Insights from the Field 3.1 Drawing attention to development 3.2 Raising capital 3.3 Sport organizations and philanthropy 3.4 Role modelling - 3.5 Celebrity Athletes and the Politics of Change 4. Conclusion: Critical Considerations Chapter 7 - Conclusion: Critical praxis and pedagogy in SDP 1. Introduction 2. Summary of arguments 3. A Sociological Vigilance in SDP 4. Critical Praxis 5. Critical Pedagogy 6. Final thoughts