Lyndsay M C Hayhurst
Biographic Data
| ID | 292942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lyndsay M C Hayhurst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lyndsay M C |
| FAMILY NAME | Hayhurst |
| SIGNATURE | HAYHURST L M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Climate emotions and climate justice: Exploring the role of affective engagement and existential experience in sport for development and peace
Global policy discourse increasingly frames sport, leisure, and recreation as tools for advancing climate justice alongside education, health, and social cohesion. While initiatives such as the United Nations Sports for Climate Action Framework highlight sport's potential to address the climate crisis, little is known about how SDP can foster meaningful climate action – defined as actions that contribute to transformative and equitable climate so…
Sport for Reconciliation: Federal Sport Policy in Settler-Colonial States
In settler-colonial contexts, the use of sport for reconciliation (SFR) has received increasing attention from national governments and their sporting agencies, though researchers have yet to track the development of SFR across settler colonial contexts. In this study, we examined how government sport policies in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa/New Zealand frame understandings of reconciliation. Through the application of both policy and frame an…
Sport for Sustainability? The Extractives Industry, Sport, and Sustainable Development
This article investigates the intersection of three interrelated trends: first, the positioning of sport as a contributor to sustainable development, particularly in regard to the increasing corporatization of sport for development (SFD); second, the trend toward sustainable development in the extractives industry, as taken up within a corporate social responsibility (CSR) approach; and third, the intersection of SFD and CSR when mobilized in pur…
Introducing Sport, Gender and Development: A Critical Intersection
In recent years, sport has demonstrated its enormous capacity to propel women and girls' empowerment. It mobilizes the global community and speaks to youth. It unites across national barriers and cultural differences. It is a powerful tool to convey important messages in a positive and celebratory environmentoften to mass audiences. In addition, it teaches women and girls the values of teamwork, self-reliance and resilience; has a multiplier effe…
Sport, Gender and Development: Intersections, Innovations and Future Trajectories
Sport, Gender and Development brings together an exploration of sport feminisms to offer new approaches to research on Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) in global and local contexts
Innovations in ‘Sport for Development and Peace’ Research
‘It’s like, we are thankful. But in the other way…they are just killing us too’: Community members’ perspectives of the extractives industry’s funding of recreational and cultural programmes in Fort M…
The growing role of the extractives industry in providing funding for recreational and cultural programmes in exchange for access to Indigenous lands raises some important questions about the impact this has on local community members. Informed by tenets of postcolonial theory and a community-based participatory research methodology, we worked with individuals in a small Indigenous community, Fort McKay, Alberta, Canada, to learn about their pers…
A Comparison of Indigenous Sport for Development Policy Directives in Canada and Australia
In this study, we employ Bacchi’s (2012) “What’s the Problem Represented to be” approach to guide our discourse analysis of federal Indigenous sport for development (SFD) policies in Canada and Australia. Through a review of government policies and reports, we highlight the often-divergent policy directives set out by federal departments in these two countries. Namely, inter-departmental partnerships in areas such as health, education, and justic…
Image-ining resistance: Using Participatory Action Research and Visual Methods in Sport for Development and Peace
Sport for development and peace scholars have recently called for a move towards participatory action research (PAR). In this paper, I discuss the utility of visual research methods, guided by a postcolonial feminist (PF)PAR approach that was taken up in two studies examining SDP programmes: the first with Indigenous young women in Canada, and the second with young women in Nicaragua. To conclude, I illustrate how the Indigenous-guided research p…
Sport for development and peace: A call for transnational, multi-sited, postcolonial feminist research
In this paper, I reflect upon and discuss findings from an empirical study that employed a postcolonial feminist approach to a multi-sited global ethnography of a sport for development and peace (SDP) initiative. Building on postcolonial feminist perspectives pertaining the importance of creating cross-border feminist solidarities anchored in struggles in the specificities of ‘the local’, in combination with recent work on research on transnation…
Corporatizating Activism Through Sport-Focused Social Justice? Investigating Nike's Corporate Responsibility Initiatives in Sport for Development and Peace
Inspired by assertions of 'creeping commercialization' in issues of social justice, this article seeks to address the entanglement of privatization with sport for development and peace initiatives. We look specifically at Nike's history of 'social responsibility' to situate the N7 initiative, for Indigenous health, within a larger landscape of privatized social justice. Critical discourse analysis was used to unpack Nike's annual corporate social…
Girls as the 'New' Agents of Social Change? Exploring the 'Girl Effect' through Sport, Gender and Development Programs in Uganda
The purpose of this study was to explore how girls in Eastern Uganda experienced a corporate-funded sport, gender and development (SGD) martial arts program. This study used 19 semi-structured in-depth interviews, participant observation and document analysis. Results revealed that while the martial arts program increased the young women's confidence, challenged gender norms, augmented their social networks, improved their physical fitness and wa…
Corporatizating Activism Through Sport-Focused Social Justice? Investigating Nike's Corporate Responsibility Initiatives in Sport for Development and Peace
Inspired by assertions of 'creeping commercialization' in issues of social justice, this article seeks to address the entanglement of privatization with sport for development and peace initiatives. We look specifically at Nike's history of 'social responsibility' to situate the N7 initiative, for Indigenous health, within a larger landscape of privatized social justice. Critical discourse analysis was used to unpack Nike's annual corporate social…
Sport for Sustainability? The Extractives Industry, Sport, and Sustainable Development
This article investigates the intersection of three interrelated trends: first, the positioning of sport as a contributor to sustainable development, particularly in regard to the increasing corporatization of sport for development (SFD); second, the trend toward sustainable development in the extractives industry, as taken up within a corporate social responsibility (CSR) approach; and third, the intersection of SFD and CSR when mobilized in pur…
Girls as the 'New' Agents of Social Change? Exploring the 'Girl Effect' through Sport, Gender and Development Programs in Uganda
The purpose of this study was to explore how girls in Eastern Uganda experienced a corporate-funded sport, gender and development (SGD) martial arts program. This study used 19 semi-structured in-depth interviews, participant observation and document analysis. Results revealed that while the martial arts program increased the young women's confidence, challenged gender norms, augmented their social networks, improved their physical fitness and wa…
Image-ining resistance: Using Participatory Action Research and Visual Methods in Sport for Development and Peace
Sport for development and peace scholars have recently called for a move towards participatory action research (PAR). In this paper, I discuss the utility of visual research methods, guided by a postcolonial feminist (PF)PAR approach that was taken up in two studies examining SDP programmes: the first with Indigenous young women in Canada, and the second with young women in Nicaragua. To conclude, I illustrate how the Indigenous-guided research p…
Sport for Reconciliation: Federal Sport Policy in Settler-Colonial States
In settler-colonial contexts, the use of sport for reconciliation (SFR) has received increasing attention from national governments and their sporting agencies, though researchers have yet to track the development of SFR across settler colonial contexts. In this study, we examined how government sport policies in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa/New Zealand frame understandings of reconciliation. Through the application of both policy and frame an…
Girls as the 'New' Agents of Social Change? Exploring the 'Girl Effect' through Sport, Gender and Development Programs in Uganda
The purpose of this study was to explore how girls in Eastern Uganda experienced a corporate-funded sport, gender and development (SGD) martial arts program. This study used 19 semi-structured in-depth interviews, participant observation and document analysis. Results revealed that while the martial arts program increased the young women's confidence, challenged gender norms, augmented their social networks, improved their physical fitness and wa…
Sport for development and peace: A call for transnational, multi-sited, postcolonial feminist research
In this paper, I reflect upon and discuss findings from an empirical study that employed a postcolonial feminist approach to a multi-sited global ethnography of a sport for development and peace (SDP) initiative. Building on postcolonial feminist perspectives pertaining the importance of creating cross-border feminist solidarities anchored in struggles in the specificities of ‘the local’, in combination with recent work on research on transnation…
Corporatizating Activism Through Sport-Focused Social Justice? Investigating Nike's Corporate Responsibility Initiatives in Sport for Development and Peace
Inspired by assertions of 'creeping commercialization' in issues of social justice, this article seeks to address the entanglement of privatization with sport for development and peace initiatives. We look specifically at Nike's history of 'social responsibility' to situate the N7 initiative, for Indigenous health, within a larger landscape of privatized social justice. Critical discourse analysis was used to unpack Nike's annual corporate social…
Image-ining resistance: Using Participatory Action Research and Visual Methods in Sport for Development and Peace
Sport for development and peace scholars have recently called for a move towards participatory action research (PAR). In this paper, I discuss the utility of visual research methods, guided by a postcolonial feminist (PF)PAR approach that was taken up in two studies examining SDP programmes: the first with Indigenous young women in Canada, and the second with young women in Nicaragua. To conclude, I illustrate how the Indigenous-guided research p…
A Comparison of Indigenous Sport for Development Policy Directives in Canada and Australia
In this study, we employ Bacchi’s (2012) “What’s the Problem Represented to be” approach to guide our discourse analysis of federal Indigenous sport for development (SFD) policies in Canada and Australia. Through a review of government policies and reports, we highlight the often-divergent policy directives set out by federal departments in these two countries. Namely, inter-departmental partnerships in areas such as health, education, and justic…
Innovations in ‘Sport for Development and Peace’ Research
‘It’s like, we are thankful. But in the other way…they are just killing us too’: Community members’ perspectives of the extractives industry’s funding of recreational and cultural programmes in Fort M…
The growing role of the extractives industry in providing funding for recreational and cultural programmes in exchange for access to Indigenous lands raises some important questions about the impact this has on local community members. Informed by tenets of postcolonial theory and a community-based participatory research methodology, we worked with individuals in a small Indigenous community, Fort McKay, Alberta, Canada, to learn about their pers…
Introducing Sport, Gender and Development: A Critical Intersection
In recent years, sport has demonstrated its enormous capacity to propel women and girls' empowerment. It mobilizes the global community and speaks to youth. It unites across national barriers and cultural differences. It is a powerful tool to convey important messages in a positive and celebratory environmentoften to mass audiences. In addition, it teaches women and girls the values of teamwork, self-reliance and resilience; has a multiplier effe…
Sport, Gender and Development: Intersections, Innovations and Future Trajectories
Sport, Gender and Development brings together an exploration of sport feminisms to offer new approaches to research on Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) in global and local contexts
Sport for Sustainability? The Extractives Industry, Sport, and Sustainable Development
This article investigates the intersection of three interrelated trends: first, the positioning of sport as a contributor to sustainable development, particularly in regard to the increasing corporatization of sport for development (SFD); second, the trend toward sustainable development in the extractives industry, as taken up within a corporate social responsibility (CSR) approach; and third, the intersection of SFD and CSR when mobilized in pur…
Sport for Reconciliation: Federal Sport Policy in Settler-Colonial States
In settler-colonial contexts, the use of sport for reconciliation (SFR) has received increasing attention from national governments and their sporting agencies, though researchers have yet to track the development of SFR across settler colonial contexts. In this study, we examined how government sport policies in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa/New Zealand frame understandings of reconciliation. Through the application of both policy and frame an…
Climate emotions and climate justice: Exploring the role of affective engagement and existential experience in sport for development and peace
Global policy discourse increasingly frames sport, leisure, and recreation as tools for advancing climate justice alongside education, health, and social cohesion. While initiatives such as the United Nations Sports for Climate Action Framework highlight sport's potential to address the climate crisis, little is known about how SDP can foster meaningful climate action – defined as actions that contribute to transformative and equitable climate so…
Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Indigenous (6 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Physical Education and Pedagogy (3 works)