GV689.2.S76

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Contents List of illustrations List of contributors Preface: Lorna Read and Jerry Bingham 1 1. Introduction: Sport and Development: Mapping the field, Roger Levermore and Aaron Beacom 11 2. Chapter Two: Sport-in-international development: theoretical frameworks, Roger Levermore 55 3. Chapter Three: Sport-in-development: Accountability or development?, Fred Coalter 106 4. Chapter Four: A delicate balance: major sport events and development, Scarlett Cornelissen 139 5. Chapter Five: Disability Sport and the Politics of Development, Aaron Beacom 175 6. Chapter Six: Dilemmas and Opportunities in Gender and sport-in-development, Martha Saavedra 218 7. Chapter Seven: On the Backs of Peer Educators: Using theory to interrogate the role of young people in the field of sport-in-development, Sara Nicholls 270 8. Chapter Eight: Getting to Know You: Using sport to engage and build relationships with socially marginalized young people, Tim Crabbe 304 9. Chapter Nine: Southern Perspective on sport-in-development: A case study of football in Bamenda, Cameroon, Jude Fokwang 339 10. Chapter Ten: Sport as international aid: assisting development or promoting under-development in Sub-Saharan Africa?, Gerard Akindes and Matthew Kirwan 373 11. Conclusion 414 Index (forthcoming with final proofs) 454

Investigating the capacity of sport to act both as a conduit for traditional development assistance activities and as an agent for change in its own right, this book argues that sport can contribute to the development process, particularly where traditional development approaches have difficulty in engaging with communities.