Youth And Sport For Development: The Seduction Of Football In Liberia
by Holly Collison /
2016 / English / PDF
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Processes of development concerning reconciliation,
rehabilitation and peace-building have become a central theme for
global organizations tasked with intervening in broken and
divided societies after violent conflicts. What can reunite
populations divided by war and violence whilst attempting to
build a peaceful civil society? This book considers the impact
and value of sport, notably football, towards achieving this
goal.
Processes of development concerning reconciliation,
rehabilitation and peace-building have become a central theme for
global organizations tasked with intervening in broken and
divided societies after violent conflicts. What can reunite
populations divided by war and violence whilst attempting to
build a peaceful civil society? This book considers the impact
and value of sport, notably football, towards achieving this
goal.Using extensive fieldwork from Liberia, Collison highlights the
multiple and diverse stakeholders and actors aligning themselves
with ‘Sport for Development and Peace’ interventions. By unpacking
and conceptualising the ambiguous terminology, complex social
effects and the lived experience of SDP, this book draw upon
participant voices and the author’s own lived experience within SDP
to gain symbolic understandings of culture, identity and the formal
and informal social structures in which participants and
interventions operate.
Using extensive fieldwork from Liberia, Collison highlights the
multiple and diverse stakeholders and actors aligning themselves
with ‘Sport for Development and Peace’ interventions. By unpacking
and conceptualising the ambiguous terminology, complex social
effects and the lived experience of SDP, this book draw upon
participant voices and the author’s own lived experience within SDP
to gain symbolic understandings of culture, identity and the formal
and informal social structures in which participants and
interventions operate.
Collison identifies that SDP has become fashionable within
development agendas but it remains an aspirational image, a
notion of seduction, rather than a tested method of reintegration
and youth development in post-conflict environments.
Collison identifies that SDP has become fashionable within
development agendas but it remains an aspirational image, a
notion of seduction, rather than a tested method of reintegration
and youth development in post-conflict environments.Youth and
Sport for Development
Youth and
Sport for Development questions the assumptions of SDP
rhetoric and programs, and traces the effects of football - the
favoured vehicle of SDP- on youth in post-conflict Liberia.
Examining three core themes: post-conflict development, youth and
community, this book centralises the narratives of young football
players in Liberia and will appeal to scholars across
Anthropology, Sociology, Sports Studies, Politics and
Development.
questions the assumptions of SDP
rhetoric and programs, and traces the effects of football - the
favoured vehicle of SDP- on youth in post-conflict Liberia.
Examining three core themes: post-conflict development, youth and
community, this book centralises the narratives of young football
players in Liberia and will appeal to scholars across
Anthropology, Sociology, Sports Studies, Politics and
Development.