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Sport as Social Policy - David Ekholm, Magnus Dahlstedt

Sport as Social Policy

Midnight Football and the Governing of Society
Buch | Softcover
222 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-12479-7 (ISBN)
CHF 69,80 inkl. MwSt
This book analyses the increasing use of sport in European and Western welfare states as a tool of social policy and its promotion as a solution to social problems.

Midnight Football is a sports-based intervention targeting social inclusion and crime prevention in young people aged 12–25 in Sweden. This book takes a close look at its organization, pedagogy and potential outcomes. Drawing on cutting-edge research into Midnight Football in Sweden, and exploring other community sport programmes including Midnight Basketball in the United States, this book shines new light on broader social transformations regarding urban segregation and social exclusion, social policy and the governing of welfare and social policy.

This book also offers new perspectives on how sport and the lives of young people intersect with and shape broader shifts in welfare and social policy in Western states, shifts that are manifested in increased inequality, social polarization and profound changes in urban geographies.

This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the relationships between sport and wider society, or in sport development, sport policy, social policy, public policy or youth and social work.

David Ekholm is Associate Professor in social work at Linköping University, Sweden. Ekholm’s main research interests are in the sociology of social work and social policy. This research is characterized by critical and constructionist perspectives on contemporary social policy transformations. Magnus Dahlstedt is Professor of social work at Linköping University, Sweden. His research concerns the formation of citizenship in times of migration, welfare and social policy transformations. A particular focus is put on mechanisms of inclusion/exclusion, and the living conditions of young people in the context of a polarized urban landscape.

1 Introduction

2 Interventions

3 Midnight Football

4 Urban Periphery

5 Civil Society

6 Neo-Philanthropy

7 Social Control

8 Integration

9 Modelling

10 Discipline

11 Empowerment

12 Desire

13 Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Critical Perspectives on Equality and Social Justice in Sport and Leisure
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 426 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-032-12479-2 / 1032124792
ISBN-13 978-1-032-12479-7 / 9781032124797
Zustand Neuware
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