This is the first book to consider the intersections of sport, international development and environmental sustainability. It explores the tensions between sport's potential contribution to the environment and its rather poor record to date.
This is the first book to consider the intersections of sport, international development and environmental sustainability. It explores the tensions between sport's potential contribution to the environment and its rather poor record to date.
Rob Millington is Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Brock University, Canada. His research focuses on how international NGOs such as the United Nations and International Olympic Committee mobilize sport for development in policy and practice, in both historical and contemporary contexts. His postdoctoral work considered what role, if any, sport can play in meeting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Simon C. Darnell is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research focuses on the relationship between sport, international development and peace-building, the development implications of sports mega-events and the place of social activism in the culture of sport. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Sociology of Sport Journal and sits on the editorial boards of five other journals, including the Journal of Sport for Development. He has served as a guest editor for issues of Third World Quarterly and Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: Sport Development and Environmental Sustainability - Issues and Controversies 2. Add Sport and Stir?: The SDGs and Sport-Environment-Development 3. Golf the Environment and Development: Past Present and Future 4. Approaching Sport and the Environment through Immersive Education Technologies 5. Postcolonialism Pristine Natures and Producing the Village Green: Pastoral Englishness in Indian Cricket-Themed Gated Communities 6. From the IOC Sport and Environment Commission to Sustainability and Legacy Commission: The Prospects for the Environmental Sustainability Legacy of Olympic Games Host Nations Under Agenda 2020 7. Ecological Modernization in 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games: The Elitist and Unjust Environmental Performance 8. Of Mosquitoes and Mega Events: Urban Political Ecologies of the More-Than-Human City 9. Neoliberalism and Competitive Nationalism: What the 2010 Commonwealth Games and 1982 Asian Games Reveal About India's Development Trajectory 10. Examining Outdoor Recreation as an Approach to Promote Youth Engagement in Environmental Activism 11. Indigenous Peoples Sport and Sustainability 12. Co-Transforming Through Shared Understandings of Land-Based Practices in Sport for Development and Peace (SDP)
1. Introduction: Sport Development and Environmental Sustainability - Issues and Controversies 2. Add Sport and Stir?: The SDGs and Sport-Environment-Development 3. Golf the Environment and Development: Past Present and Future 4. Approaching Sport and the Environment through Immersive Education Technologies 5. Postcolonialism Pristine Natures and Producing the Village Green: Pastoral Englishness in Indian Cricket-Themed Gated Communities 6. From the IOC Sport and Environment Commission to Sustainability and Legacy Commission: The Prospects for the Environmental Sustainability Legacy of Olympic Games Host Nations Under Agenda 2020 7. Ecological Modernization in 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games: The Elitist and Unjust Environmental Performance 8. Of Mosquitoes and Mega Events: Urban Political Ecologies of the More-Than-Human City 9. Neoliberalism and Competitive Nationalism: What the 2010 Commonwealth Games and 1982 Asian Games Reveal About India's Development Trajectory 10. Examining Outdoor Recreation as an Approach to Promote Youth Engagement in Environmental Activism 11. Indigenous Peoples Sport and Sustainability 12. Co-Transforming Through Shared Understandings of Land-Based Practices in Sport for Development and Peace (SDP)
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