1st Edition

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Sport and Leisure

Edited By Thomas Fletcher, Katherine Dashper Copyright 2014
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

221 Pages
by Routledge

Despite the mythology of sport bringing people together and encouraging everyone to work collectively to success, modern sport remains a site of exclusionary practices that operate on a number of levels. Although sports participation is, in some cases at least, becoming more open and meritocratic, at the management level it remains very homogenous; dominated by western, white, middle-aged,... Read more

1. Introduction: Diversity, equity and inclusion in sport and leisure  Section 1: Inclusionary politics and active recreation  2. Can we make a difference? Examining the transformative potential of sport and active recreation  3. The Civilised Skateboarder and the Sports Funding Hegemony  Section 2: Sport, Policy and inclusion  4. Sports clubs and civic inclusion: Rethinking the poverty of association  5. Sports-based intervention and the problem of youth offending: a diverse enough tool for a diverse society?  Section 3: Gender and sexuality  6. Enter the discourse: exploring the discursive roots of inclusivity in mixed-sex martial arts  7. Not a job for ‘girly girls’: horseracing, gender and work identities  8. The Concepts Underpinning Everyday Gendered Homophobia Based Upon the Experiences of Lesbian Coaches  Section 4: Race and ethnicity  9. Marketing Strategies Within an African-Brazilian Martial Art  10. The making of an ethnically diverse management: contested cultural meanings in a Dutch amateur football club  11. Sport Controversy, the Media and Anglo-Indian Cricket Relations: The 1977 ‘Vaseline Incident’ in Retrospect  Section 5: Supporting and watching sport  12. Social Inclusion through Football Fandom: Opportunities for Learning-Disabled People  13. Intolerance and joy, violence and love among male football fans: towards a psychosocial explanation of ‘excessive’ behaviours  14. The Role of Mediated Sports Programming on Implicit Racial Stereotypes

Biography

Thomas Fletcher is a Senior Lecturer within Carnegie Faculty at Leeds Metropolitan University. Thomas’s research interests include: ‘race’/ethnicity, social identities, heritage, and equity and diversity in sport and leisure. Thomas’s book, Sports Events, Society and Culture (co-edited with Katherine Dashper and Nicola McCullough) is due to be published by Routledge in early 2014.

Katherine Dashper is a Senior Lecturer within Carnegie Faculty at Leeds Metropolitan University. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, social identities and human-animal studies, and she specialises in rural sport, leisure and tourism. She has two edited books - Sports Events, Society and Culture (with Thomas Fletcher and Nicola McCullough) and Rural Tourism: An international perspective - due for publication in 2014/15.

"In conclusion, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Sports and Leisure is an extensive collection of articles in the field of equality, diversity and social inclusion in sport. Because of its wide range in topics and empirical contexts, the book is likely to interest a broad group of readers such as students, researchers, lecturers and sports professionals." – idrottsforum.org, Nordic Sport Science Forum