Sport for Development and Peace

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