1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Sport, Leisure, and Social Justice
This is the first book to explore in breadth and in depth the complex intersections between sport, leisure, and social justice.
This book examines the relations of power that produce social inequalities and considers how sport and leisure spaces can perpetuate those relations, or act as sites of resistance, and makes a powerful call for an activist scholarship in sport and leisure studies. Presenting original theoretical and empirical work by leading international researchers and practitioners in sport and leisure, this book addresses the central social issues that lie at the heart of critical social science – including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, religious persecution, socio-economic deprivation, and the climate crisis – and asks how these issues are expressed or mediated in the context of sport and leisure practices. Covering an incredibly diverse range of topics and cases – including sex testing in sport; sport for refugees; pedagogical practices in physical education; community sport development; events and human rights; and athlete activism – this book also surveys the history of sport and social justice research, as well as outlining theoretical and methodological foundations for this field of enquiry.
The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Leisure and Social Justice is an indispensable resource for any advanced student, researcher, policymaker, practitioner, or activist with an interest in the sociology, culture, politics, history, development, governance, media and marketing, and business and management of sport and leisure.
PART I
Historicising and theorising social justice in sport and leisure
1 Sport, leisure, and social justice at the neoliberal moment: challenges for integrity and activist scholarship
Stefan Lawrence, Joanne Hill, and Rasul Mowatt
2 Contrasting approaches to social justice in sport
Jim Lusted
3 Heritage, public history, and social justice in sport and leisure
Matthew L. McDowell
4 Sport, leisure, and social justice in the age of precarity and prosumption
Spencer Swain
PART II
Sex, gender, and sexualities
5 Women, sport, and activism: an international perspective
Celia Valiente
6 Sport, masculinities, and homosexualities: why inclusive masculinity theory can be considered dangerous for queer sportspeople
Richard Pringle
7 The invisibility of trans men in sport and sporting spaces
Abby Barras
8 Sex-testing and discrimination in sport: upholding an uneven playing field
Grace Athanas-Linden
9 Doing and undoing gender in physical education and youth sport: the potential for practice
Hannah Kettley-Linsell and Joanne Hill
PART III
‘Race’, forced migration, and religion
10 Social justice, sport, leisure, and racism in the United States
Adam Love, Steven N. Waller, Ashley Gardner, and Chermaine Cole
11 Race, social justice, leisure, and sport in Brazil: a critical perspective in defence of anti-racism
Lennon Giulio Santos de Farias, Neilton de Sousa Ferreira Júnior, Léo Barbosa Nepomuceno, Eduardo Vinícius Mota e Silva, Luciana Venâncio, Luiz Sanches Neto, and Henrique Antunes Cunha Júnior
12 Sport and social justice for refugees: advocating for leisure activities as a basic human need
Mark Doidge
13 Mental health, Drapetomania, and professional football: a memorial to Dalian Atkinson
Colin King
14 Christianity, sport, and social justice
David Torevell
15 Race, social justice, and children’s everyday leisure geographies
Utsa Mukherjee
PART IV
Physical education, young people, and families
16 Families, advocacy, and social justice in youth sport
Ruth Jeanes and Dawn Trussell
17 Teaching for social justice through physical education
Rod Philpot, Wayne Smith, Richard Pringle, Alan Ovens, and Göran Gerdin
18 Legitimate embodiment in formal education: imagery in physical education textbooks
Ana Rey-Cao and Alba González-Palomares
19 Chinese government’s modern governance and the challenges to social justice in school sports
Honglu Zhang
20 Teaching for social justice through physical education in the context of US legislation and policies against critical race theory
Micah J. Dobson
21 School physical education and social justice: what are we doing in Brazil?
Isabel Porto Filgueiras, Elisabete dos Santos Freire, Bruno Freitas Meireles, Ewerton Leonardo da Silva Vieira, Bruna Gabriela Marques, Graciele Massoli Rodrigues, Luiz Sanches Neto, and Luciana Venâncio
PART V
Sport, development, and community
22 Equality and social justice in sport for development and peace
Simon C. Darnell and Rob Millington
23 Sport for development: a troubling past to a brighter future?
Michael Sup
24 Implementing service-learning for social change in sport management curricula
Michael B. Edwards, Kimberly A. Bush, and J. Lin Dawson
25 Community sport development: where sport development and social justice meet
Janine Partington and Dan Bates
26 Sport, Physical Education (PE) and Sport-for-All (SfA) programmes: intersectional perspectives from Cyprus and Greece
Foteini Papadopoulou and Symeon Dagkas
27 Socioeconomic status in sport and leisure engagement
Adam Gemar
28 Addressing power dynamics in disability sport studies: emancipatory participatory principles for social justice research
Damian Haslett
29 Sport and crime reduction
Peter R. Harris
PART VI
Elite sport, activism, and media
30 English football, safe standing, and social movements: an eventful sociology of fan activism
Mark Turner
31 Branding social justice in sport
Antonio S. Williams, Tanya K. Jones, Kelly J. Brummett, and Zack P. Pedersen
32 National anthems and athlete activism
Keith D. Parry, Daryl Adair, and Jamie Cleland
33 Sport, the media, and athlete activism: ‘just shut up and play’
Steph Doehler
34 Social media and online activism in women’s rugby: From #IAmEnough to #ICare
Ali Bowes and Alex Culvin
35 The five groups of environmental sports activists: a complex medley
Toby Miller
Future directions and research methods for social justice
36 Research methods for sport, leisure, and social justice
Ian Jones and Jayne Caudwell
37 Arts-based research and social justice in sport and leisure
David Carless and Kitrina Douglas
38 Participatory research in sport, leisure, and forced migration: where is the social justice?
Chris Webster and Robyn Smith
39 Indigenous methodologies for sport, leisure and social justice research: a Pacific studies perspective
Gina Hawkes
40 Research integrity and ethics in sport social justice research: safe practice
Christina Philippou
41 Intersectional scholarship on sport and leisure: trends, tensions, and promising directions
Prisca Bruno Massao and Mari Haugaa Engh
Biography
Stefan Lawrence is Senior Lecturer in sport business management at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Stefan has published widely on sport and leisure and their relationship to social justice and digital cultures respectively. He is a member of the editorial boards for Leisure Sciences, Leisure Studies and Managing Sport and Leisure, and is a Principal Fellow of Advance HE.
Joanne Hill is Senior Lecturer in physical education and sport sociology at the University of Bedfordshire, UK, where she is also Co-Deputy Director for the Institute of Sport and Physical Activity Research. She researches the impact of the social construction of the body, gender and ethnicity on physical activity and sport engagement; and critical pedagogies/social justice in physical education and higher education, using participatory and creative methods.
Rasul Mowatt is a Professor and Researcher who studies social justice and the geographies of race. He is Head of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management at North Carolina State’s College of Natural Resources, USA. Before joining NC State, Rasul served on Indiana University’s faculty for 15 years and previously taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is president of The Academy of Leisure Sciences, co-editor of Leisure Sciences, and founding editor of Recreation, Parks and Tourism in Public Health.
