Social inclusion’ through sports-based interventions

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11432175
AutoresLaura Kelly (0000-0003-1454-9240, Durham University, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume31
Fascículo1
Páginas126-150
Data de publicação2011-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCritical Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0261-0183 • E-ISSN: 1461-703X
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0261018310385442
OpenAlexW2088345396
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas67
Referências citadas36

There is international enthusiasm for the idea that sport can contribute to ‘social inclusion’ strategies. Sport now features in various targeted youth initiatives, including ‘Positive Futures’: a ‘sport and activity based social inclusion programme’ currently operating in England and Wales. The processes through which these ‘sports-based interventions’ might promote ‘social inclusion’ require, however, further investigation. Drawing on interviews with operational staff, managers, partners and participants, the article critically analyses the concept of ‘sports-based social inclusion’ with reference to four main themes: ‘sport for all’, ‘social cohesion’, ‘a pathway to work’ and ‘giving voice’. It argues that, while programmes achieve varying degrees of ‘success’ in relation to these themes, their impact on exclusionary processes is inevitably limited. Moreover, sports-based interventions risk legitimating a reductive analysis of these complex processes, highlighting individual deficits and de-emphasizing structural inequalities

Business · Cohesion (chemistry · Enthusiasm · Futures contract · Inclusion (mineral · Inequality · Political science · Psychological intervention · Public relations · Social inequality · Sociology · Disability Rights and Representation · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Youth Development and Social Support