More than a Sporting Chance? Appraising the sport for development legacy of the 2010 Fifa World Cup
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11186264 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scarlett Cornelissen (Stellenbosch University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 503-529 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Third World Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-6597 • E-ISSN: 1360-2241 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01436597.2011.573943 |
| OpenAlex | W2121788281 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
This article appraises the sport for development initiatives that were implemented or augmented during the 2010 fifa World Cup hosted in South Africa, and reviews the processes, institutional features and likely consequences of those initiatives for the sport for development sector in the country. It does so against the background that sport for development is a growth industry, albeit one with many conceptual and operational deficiencies, and which offers little in the way of an evidentiary base for the claim that sport has intrinsic social benefits. To date, too, there has been little cross-fertilisation between the sport for development field as a practice of development, and the growing body of scholarship that assesses the development impacts of large-scale sporting events. Given its distinctive setting and the intense international interest in its potential yields, the 2010 World Cup provoked a flurry of sport-centred development programmes implemented by a variety of international, domestic, public and private actors. This stimulated an interesting change in dynamics in the established sport for development landscape which, in time, may shape the sector and the broader sports environment in the country in both positive and negative ways. The case of the World Cup also offers some insights about the way in which sport for development practices can be mediated or altered in the context of sport mega-events
Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Political science · Private sector · Public relations · Scale (ratio · Scholarship · Sport management · Variety (cybernetics · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports Analytics and Performance · Sports, Gender, and Society
Esporte e sociedade
Policing Sport Mega-Events
Branding a Nation
Localizing global sport for development
Mapping Sport for Development and Peace as Bourdieu’s Field
Public policies and sports in marginalised communities
The genesis of a football field
Soft Power, Sports Mega-Events and Emerging States
Interrogating States’ Soft Power Strategies
Leveraging global south sports mega events to advance sport for development and peace theory and practice
Brazil
Ecological Modernization and the Olympics
Not Just Playing the Game
Sport and social cohesion in a provincial town in South Africa
Brazilian School Games
If things go South
Sport for Development and Peace in Action
The challenges of articulating 'top down' and 'bottom up' development through sport
Sport-for-Development and the 2010 Football World Cup
Hosting and Human Rights
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |