P Delheye
Biographic Data
| ID | 1688879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Delheye |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Delheye |
| SIGNATURE | DELHEYE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0936-8528 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sports programmes for the social reintegration of (formerly) incarcerated people: A multi-stakeholder analysis
This article investigates the role of sport as a social work intervention in the social reintegration of (formerly) incarcerated individuals. Drawing on participatory observations and 141 semi-structured interviews conducted in three Belgian prisons, and using the Capability Approach as an analytical lens, the study offers a multi-stakeholder analysis of participants’ experiences, available resources, and key conversion factors within sports prog…
An in-depth study on the meaning of sport for the social reintegration of (formerly) incarcerated people
The aim of this study was to explore how sports contribute to the social reintegration of (formerly) incarcerated individuals. The focus lays on the perspectives of participants in sports activities in a Belgian prison. The research utilized participatory observations and semi-structured interviews spanning eighteen months. The data were processed through a thematic analysis by using the Capability Approach as a theoretical lens. The findings rev…
Impact Evaluation of Community Sport Programmes and “Sport Social Work Practices”
Initiatives that employ sport as a means to achieve social objectives span a broad spectrum—from those primarily centred on sporting activities to those closely aligned with principles of social work. This thematic issue, titled Impact Evaluation of Community Sport Programmes and ‘Sport Social Work Practices’ , reflects this diversity in both terminology and approach. It brings together twelve original contributions that critically examine the de…
Looking for boundary spanners: An exploratory study of critical experiences of coaches in sport-for-development programmes
Given that sport-for-development (SfD) requires the intentional use of sport as a tool to realize developmental goals in complex contexts, there is a need for reflexive SfD coaches who can successfully contribute to the delivery of programmes. In this study, we explore the lived experiences of SfD coaches in a selection of programmes in Flanders, Belgium. We look at their responsibilities, perceived competencies and the conditions that need to be…
Boundary Spanning in Sport for Development: Opening Transdisciplinary and Intersectoral Perspectives
We can no longer claim that academic interest in the area of sport and social inclusion is lacking. Dedicated books, special issues, commissioned reports, and landmark articles on the topic of social inclusion and sport have been produced by devoted scholars. The same can be said for the burgeoning area of sport for development and peace. These relatively young academic fields seem to be struggling to create new fundamental theoretical insights a…
The Introduction and Meaning of the Word Sport in the Netherlands, 1647–1910
In contrast with the Netherlands’ status as a sports nation, academic articles on Dutch sports history are scarce. In this paper, we would like to establish a ‘textual’ basis for further research. By means of a large-scale digital analysis, we have been able to depict important phases in the Dutch ‘sportification process’. Sport gradually infiltrated Dutch society: first it was mentioned as an English word in bilingual dictionaries, translated li…
Playing on the Field of Social and Technical Innovation: The Impact of the Sale of Lawn Tennis Sets in the Netherlands, 1874–1887
In 1874, after tennis had been played indoors for centuries, British officer Walter Wingfield introduced an open-air version of the game, which he called sphairistike or lawn tennis. He developed a lawn-tennis box that was easy to carry and that contained all the necessary equipment for playing. Wingfield's concept was innovative, not only technologically in both game and design, but also socially. He made it clear, for instance, that lawn tennis…
Struggling with Science and Status: Physiotherapy – Including Radiology and Cancer Treatment – and Physical Education at the State University in Ghent, Belgium, 1906–1936
status: Published
Sport, Work and the Professional Cyclist in Belgium, 1907-40
This article looks at the social dynamics of the sport of bicycle racing as an occupation in Belgium before World War Two. Racing was the country’s most popular and professionally organized sport during this period, and a skilful athlete could earn a lot of money in it. Hence, becoming a bicycle racer was an aspiration of many in the lower classes, the sport’s core public and practitioners. This growing number of working-class riders challenged e…
Borderless sport? Imagining and organising bicycle racing in Belgium, 1869–1914: Between transnational dynamics and national aspirations
From the 1860s onwards, the new sport of bicycle racing engendered transnational flows of ideas, practices and performers. However, national actors and sensitivities always remained present. In interaction with these transnational flows they shaped national identity in this sport, as the Belgian case shows. Belgium was a site of cross-border interaction for racing from early on. Nevertheless, actors like the Belgian cycling press or national cycl…
Expansionism, Physical Education and Olympism: Common Interests of King Leopold II of Belgium, Cyrille Van Overbergh and Pierre de Coubertin (1894–1914)
In this article, we focus on the links and synergies between the Ecole mondiale of King Leopold II of Belgium, the Plans du Collège Léopold II of Pierre du Coubertin and the establishment of the Belgian Olympic Committee in 1906. A firm belief in the advantages of international cooperation undercut these three projects that were planned in Belgium. Always accompanying the internationalist discourse was the conviction that they should also strengt…
Wicket Game: The (Re-)Introduction of Cricket in the Netherlands, 1724–1883
Whereas earlier research has shown that (traditional) cricket was invented in Flanders (i.e. the Southern Low Countries), this article focuses on the introduction of modern cricket in the Netherlands (i.e. the Northern Low Countries). The result is a broad textual study, based on large-scale digital analysis. We show that the integration of this sport textually took place in three phases: first in small groups via billingual translation dictionar…
London is Just Around the Corner: Belgium, Britain and Sport
Answering the legitimate call for a more transnational approach to the history of sport in Europe, we seize upon the 2012 Olympic Games as an opportunity to look back on Belgo-British contacts in sport since the Middle Ages. Contextualising this history within the wider Belgo-British political, economic and cultural contacts is, indeed, much more revealing than recounting a superficial story about the three medals the Belgian Olympic delegation a…
Military Sport in the Belgian Congo: From Physical Training and Leisure to Belgian-Congolese Records in Track and Field, 1945–1960
While the important role of several ‘muscular missionaries' in promoting sport has been thoroughly studied and discussed, less is known about the sports policy of the Force Publique (FP, Public Army) in the Belgian Congo. Therefore, for this article we have focused on military sources. Like the Catholic Church, the FP tried to establish a new order and, by doing so, shaped ‘new tribes' and new identities. In the military training camps – where th…
A match between university professors and school inspectors? Innovation and stagnation in the physical education curriculum
During the 1960s and 1970s, “traditional” secondary educational systems in various Western European countries made way for comprehensive education curricula. In contrast to the reforms within the “intellectual” subjects, the field of physical education (PE) remained largely underexposed in research. This study focuses on PE reform in Belgium, the first country in the world (apart from Sweden itself) to introduce, in 1908, so-called “Swedish gymna…
Connecting City and Countryside? Faces of Cycling Mobility in Belgium, 1890–1914
Focusing on Belle Époque Belgium, this paper analyses the changes the advent of cycling and its new mobility engendered in the sociocultural dialectics between city and countryside. By studying the interwoven, often contradictory motivations behind and representations of bicycle use, an attempt is made to determine the factors leading to cyclists’ cultural imagining of both city and countryside, how this was shaped in discourse and practice and h…
Cycling in the City? Belgian Cyclists Conquering Urban Spaces, 1860–1900
Existing research on nineteenth-century cycling focuses more on its role in shaping modern tourism than on its urban origins. In this paper, in contrast, we analyse the emergence of cycling in four of Belgium's leading industrial and commercial cities: Brussels, Antwerp, Liège and Ghent. From the 1860s onwards, a ‘golden age’ of urban planning created new sites of bourgeois power and display in these urban centres. Simultaneously, the new, advent…
Daredevils and Early Birds: Belgian Pioneers in Automobile Racing and Aerial Sports During the Belle Époque
During the belle époque, Belgium was a trend-setting nation in many domains, including motorised sports. Belgian automobile racers and pilots shattered world records and became international stars. Striking was the shift in sports. Indeed, around 1896, sporting members of the leisure class stepped from the bicycle into the automobile and, around 1908, from the automobile into the airplane. Although these motorised sports were extremely expensive,…
Daredevils and Early Birds: Belgian Pioneers in Automobile Racing and Aerial Sports During the Belle Époque
During the belle époque, Belgium was a trend-setting nation in many domains, including motorised sports. Belgian automobile racers and pilots shattered world records and became international stars. Striking was the shift in sports. Indeed, around 1896, sporting members of the leisure class stepped from the bicycle into the automobile and, around 1908, from the automobile into the airplane. Although these motorised sports were extremely expensive,…
Cycling in the City? Belgian Cyclists Conquering Urban Spaces, 1860–1900
Existing research on nineteenth-century cycling focuses more on its role in shaping modern tourism than on its urban origins. In this paper, in contrast, we analyse the emergence of cycling in four of Belgium's leading industrial and commercial cities: Brussels, Antwerp, Liège and Ghent. From the 1860s onwards, a ‘golden age’ of urban planning created new sites of bourgeois power and display in these urban centres. Simultaneously, the new, advent…
London is Just Around the Corner: Belgium, Britain and Sport
Answering the legitimate call for a more transnational approach to the history of sport in Europe, we seize upon the 2012 Olympic Games as an opportunity to look back on Belgo-British contacts in sport since the Middle Ages. Contextualising this history within the wider Belgo-British political, economic and cultural contacts is, indeed, much more revealing than recounting a superficial story about the three medals the Belgian Olympic delegation a…
Expansionism, Physical Education and Olympism: Common Interests of King Leopold II of Belgium, Cyrille Van Overbergh and Pierre de Coubertin (1894–1914)
In this article, we focus on the links and synergies between the Ecole mondiale of King Leopold II of Belgium, the Plans du Collège Léopold II of Pierre du Coubertin and the establishment of the Belgian Olympic Committee in 1906. A firm belief in the advantages of international cooperation undercut these three projects that were planned in Belgium. Always accompanying the internationalist discourse was the conviction that they should also strengt…
Wicket Game: The (Re-)Introduction of Cricket in the Netherlands, 1724–1883
Whereas earlier research has shown that (traditional) cricket was invented in Flanders (i.e. the Southern Low Countries), this article focuses on the introduction of modern cricket in the Netherlands (i.e. the Northern Low Countries). The result is a broad textual study, based on large-scale digital analysis. We show that the integration of this sport textually took place in three phases: first in small groups via billingual translation dictionar…
Military Sport in the Belgian Congo: From Physical Training and Leisure to Belgian-Congolese Records in Track and Field, 1945–1960
While the important role of several ‘muscular missionaries' in promoting sport has been thoroughly studied and discussed, less is known about the sports policy of the Force Publique (FP, Public Army) in the Belgian Congo. Therefore, for this article we have focused on military sources. Like the Catholic Church, the FP tried to establish a new order and, by doing so, shaped ‘new tribes' and new identities. In the military training camps – where th…
Connecting City and Countryside? Faces of Cycling Mobility in Belgium, 1890–1914
Focusing on Belle Époque Belgium, this paper analyses the changes the advent of cycling and its new mobility engendered in the sociocultural dialectics between city and countryside. By studying the interwoven, often contradictory motivations behind and representations of bicycle use, an attempt is made to determine the factors leading to cyclists’ cultural imagining of both city and countryside, how this was shaped in discourse and practice and h…
Boundary Spanning in Sport for Development: Opening Transdisciplinary and Intersectoral Perspectives
We can no longer claim that academic interest in the area of sport and social inclusion is lacking. Dedicated books, special issues, commissioned reports, and landmark articles on the topic of social inclusion and sport have been produced by devoted scholars. The same can be said for the burgeoning area of sport for development and peace. These relatively young academic fields seem to be struggling to create new fundamental theoretical insights a…
The Introduction and Meaning of the Word Sport in the Netherlands, 1647–1910
In contrast with the Netherlands’ status as a sports nation, academic articles on Dutch sports history are scarce. In this paper, we would like to establish a ‘textual’ basis for further research. By means of a large-scale digital analysis, we have been able to depict important phases in the Dutch ‘sportification process’. Sport gradually infiltrated Dutch society: first it was mentioned as an English word in bilingual dictionaries, translated li…
Playing on the Field of Social and Technical Innovation: The Impact of the Sale of Lawn Tennis Sets in the Netherlands, 1874–1887
In 1874, after tennis had been played indoors for centuries, British officer Walter Wingfield introduced an open-air version of the game, which he called sphairistike or lawn tennis. He developed a lawn-tennis box that was easy to carry and that contained all the necessary equipment for playing. Wingfield's concept was innovative, not only technologically in both game and design, but also socially. He made it clear, for instance, that lawn tennis…
Sport, Work and the Professional Cyclist in Belgium, 1907-40
This article looks at the social dynamics of the sport of bicycle racing as an occupation in Belgium before World War Two. Racing was the country’s most popular and professionally organized sport during this period, and a skilful athlete could earn a lot of money in it. Hence, becoming a bicycle racer was an aspiration of many in the lower classes, the sport’s core public and practitioners. This growing number of working-class riders challenged e…
Daredevils and Early Birds: Belgian Pioneers in Automobile Racing and Aerial Sports During the Belle Époque
During the belle époque, Belgium was a trend-setting nation in many domains, including motorised sports. Belgian automobile racers and pilots shattered world records and became international stars. Striking was the shift in sports. Indeed, around 1896, sporting members of the leisure class stepped from the bicycle into the automobile and, around 1908, from the automobile into the airplane. Although these motorised sports were extremely expensive,…
Cycling in the City? Belgian Cyclists Conquering Urban Spaces, 1860–1900
Existing research on nineteenth-century cycling focuses more on its role in shaping modern tourism than on its urban origins. In this paper, in contrast, we analyse the emergence of cycling in four of Belgium's leading industrial and commercial cities: Brussels, Antwerp, Liège and Ghent. From the 1860s onwards, a ‘golden age’ of urban planning created new sites of bourgeois power and display in these urban centres. Simultaneously, the new, advent…
London is Just Around the Corner: Belgium, Britain and Sport
Answering the legitimate call for a more transnational approach to the history of sport in Europe, we seize upon the 2012 Olympic Games as an opportunity to look back on Belgo-British contacts in sport since the Middle Ages. Contextualising this history within the wider Belgo-British political, economic and cultural contacts is, indeed, much more revealing than recounting a superficial story about the three medals the Belgian Olympic delegation a…
Military Sport in the Belgian Congo: From Physical Training and Leisure to Belgian-Congolese Records in Track and Field, 1945–1960
While the important role of several ‘muscular missionaries' in promoting sport has been thoroughly studied and discussed, less is known about the sports policy of the Force Publique (FP, Public Army) in the Belgian Congo. Therefore, for this article we have focused on military sources. Like the Catholic Church, the FP tried to establish a new order and, by doing so, shaped ‘new tribes' and new identities. In the military training camps – where th…
A match between university professors and school inspectors? Innovation and stagnation in the physical education curriculum
During the 1960s and 1970s, “traditional” secondary educational systems in various Western European countries made way for comprehensive education curricula. In contrast to the reforms within the “intellectual” subjects, the field of physical education (PE) remained largely underexposed in research. This study focuses on PE reform in Belgium, the first country in the world (apart from Sweden itself) to introduce, in 1908, so-called “Swedish gymna…
Connecting City and Countryside? Faces of Cycling Mobility in Belgium, 1890–1914
Focusing on Belle Époque Belgium, this paper analyses the changes the advent of cycling and its new mobility engendered in the sociocultural dialectics between city and countryside. By studying the interwoven, often contradictory motivations behind and representations of bicycle use, an attempt is made to determine the factors leading to cyclists’ cultural imagining of both city and countryside, how this was shaped in discourse and practice and h…
Borderless sport? Imagining and organising bicycle racing in Belgium, 1869–1914: Between transnational dynamics and national aspirations
From the 1860s onwards, the new sport of bicycle racing engendered transnational flows of ideas, practices and performers. However, national actors and sensitivities always remained present. In interaction with these transnational flows they shaped national identity in this sport, as the Belgian case shows. Belgium was a site of cross-border interaction for racing from early on. Nevertheless, actors like the Belgian cycling press or national cycl…
Expansionism, Physical Education and Olympism: Common Interests of King Leopold II of Belgium, Cyrille Van Overbergh and Pierre de Coubertin (1894–1914)
In this article, we focus on the links and synergies between the Ecole mondiale of King Leopold II of Belgium, the Plans du Collège Léopold II of Pierre du Coubertin and the establishment of the Belgian Olympic Committee in 1906. A firm belief in the advantages of international cooperation undercut these three projects that were planned in Belgium. Always accompanying the internationalist discourse was the conviction that they should also strengt…
Wicket Game: The (Re-)Introduction of Cricket in the Netherlands, 1724–1883
Whereas earlier research has shown that (traditional) cricket was invented in Flanders (i.e. the Southern Low Countries), this article focuses on the introduction of modern cricket in the Netherlands (i.e. the Northern Low Countries). The result is a broad textual study, based on large-scale digital analysis. We show that the integration of this sport textually took place in three phases: first in small groups via billingual translation dictionar…
The Introduction and Meaning of the Word Sport in the Netherlands, 1647–1910
In contrast with the Netherlands’ status as a sports nation, academic articles on Dutch sports history are scarce. In this paper, we would like to establish a ‘textual’ basis for further research. By means of a large-scale digital analysis, we have been able to depict important phases in the Dutch ‘sportification process’. Sport gradually infiltrated Dutch society: first it was mentioned as an English word in bilingual dictionaries, translated li…
Playing on the Field of Social and Technical Innovation: The Impact of the Sale of Lawn Tennis Sets in the Netherlands, 1874–1887
In 1874, after tennis had been played indoors for centuries, British officer Walter Wingfield introduced an open-air version of the game, which he called sphairistike or lawn tennis. He developed a lawn-tennis box that was easy to carry and that contained all the necessary equipment for playing. Wingfield's concept was innovative, not only technologically in both game and design, but also socially. He made it clear, for instance, that lawn tennis…
Struggling with Science and Status: Physiotherapy – Including Radiology and Cancer Treatment – and Physical Education at the State University in Ghent, Belgium, 1906–1936
status: Published
Sport, Work and the Professional Cyclist in Belgium, 1907-40
This article looks at the social dynamics of the sport of bicycle racing as an occupation in Belgium before World War Two. Racing was the country’s most popular and professionally organized sport during this period, and a skilful athlete could earn a lot of money in it. Hence, becoming a bicycle racer was an aspiration of many in the lower classes, the sport’s core public and practitioners. This growing number of working-class riders challenged e…
Boundary Spanning in Sport for Development: Opening Transdisciplinary and Intersectoral Perspectives
We can no longer claim that academic interest in the area of sport and social inclusion is lacking. Dedicated books, special issues, commissioned reports, and landmark articles on the topic of social inclusion and sport have been produced by devoted scholars. The same can be said for the burgeoning area of sport for development and peace. These relatively young academic fields seem to be struggling to create new fundamental theoretical insights a…
Looking for boundary spanners: An exploratory study of critical experiences of coaches in sport-for-development programmes
Given that sport-for-development (SfD) requires the intentional use of sport as a tool to realize developmental goals in complex contexts, there is a need for reflexive SfD coaches who can successfully contribute to the delivery of programmes. In this study, we explore the lived experiences of SfD coaches in a selection of programmes in Flanders, Belgium. We look at their responsibilities, perceived competencies and the conditions that need to be…
Impact Evaluation of Community Sport Programmes and “Sport Social Work Practices”
Initiatives that employ sport as a means to achieve social objectives span a broad spectrum—from those primarily centred on sporting activities to those closely aligned with principles of social work. This thematic issue, titled Impact Evaluation of Community Sport Programmes and ‘Sport Social Work Practices’ , reflects this diversity in both terminology and approach. It brings together twelve original contributions that critically examine the de…
Sports programmes for the social reintegration of (formerly) incarcerated people: A multi-stakeholder analysis
This article investigates the role of sport as a social work intervention in the social reintegration of (formerly) incarcerated individuals. Drawing on participatory observations and 141 semi-structured interviews conducted in three Belgian prisons, and using the Capability Approach as an analytical lens, the study offers a multi-stakeholder analysis of participants’ experiences, available resources, and key conversion factors within sports prog…
An in-depth study on the meaning of sport for the social reintegration of (formerly) incarcerated people
The aim of this study was to explore how sports contribute to the social reintegration of (formerly) incarcerated individuals. The focus lays on the perspectives of participants in sports activities in a Belgian prison. The research utilized participatory observations and semi-structured interviews spanning eighteen months. The data were processed through a thematic analysis by using the Capability Approach as a theoretical lens. The findings rev…
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