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