[PDF] Gender And Sports In Africas Development eBook

Author : Jimoh Shehu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 25,40 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Africa
ISBN : 286978306X

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Drawing on various theories and cross-cultural data, the contributors to this volume highlight the various ways in which sport norms, policies, practices and representations pervasively interface with gender and other socially constructed categories of difference. They argue that sport is not only a site of competition and physical recreation, but also a crossroad where features of modern society such as hegemony, identities, democracy, technology, development and master statuses intertwine and bifurcate. As they point out in many ways, sport production, reproduction, distribution and consumption are relational, spatial and contextual and, therefore, do not pay off for men, women and other social groups equally. The authors draw attention to the structure and scope of efforts needed to transform the exclusionary and gendered nature of sport processes to make them adequate to the task of engendering Africa's development. --

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54 GENDER AND SPORTS IN AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT: TOWARDS GENDER EQUALITY IN SPORTS IN AFRICA CODICE, 2010 4 Introduction In line with its mandate of developing, promoting, consolidating, and disseminating the highest quality of research on and about Africa, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) will hold a Gender Institute from 07th to 25th June, 2010 in Daka. [...] The results have implications for future research in the domain of sports communication in particular, and the domain of synthesis scholarship (O'Sullivan, 1999) in the communication discipline in general. [...] The authors trace the origin of the concept in a convergence of ideas in the early 1980s and map the ways it was applied when research on men and masculinities expanded. [...] The authors suggest reformulation of the concept in four areas: a more complex model of gender hierarchy, emphasizing the agency of women; explicit recognition of the geography of masculinities, emphasizing the interplay among local, regional, and global levels; a more specific treatment of embodiment in contexts of privilege and power; and a stronger emphasis on the dynamics of hegemonic masculin. [...] Its participation in the FIFA Football World Cup of 2010 brings to the fore its national goals and acts as a test case for the successful development of the country and of other African and developing nations.

Author : John Bale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1317637658

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In recent decades Africa has emerged as a sporting giant. The African sporting phenomenon has been addressed in the popular press and it has also attracted scholarly interest; however, this interest is almost entirely focussed on men. Yet women’s participation in recreational and elite sport is worthy of exploration and research. This path-breaking collection of essays provides an introduction to a variety of dimensions of women’s participation in African sports. Several key concepts are addressed in the book: women and media, women and sport-migration, sport and empowerment, sporting and social development, women’s sport and postcolonial Africa, and professional sport and economic development. This collection, authored by established scholars, will attract readership from students from Sports Studies to African Studies and from undergraduate students to university teachers. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

Author : Akinloyè Òjó
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 2018-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351119885

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This book considers how the establishment and/or improvement of gender equality impacts on the social, economic, religious, cultural, environmental and political developments of human societies in Africa and its Diaspora. An interdisciplinary team of contributors examine the role of gender in development against the background of Africa’s convoluted and arduous history of state formation, slavery, colonialism, post-independence, nation-building and poverty. Each chapter highlights and stimulates further discussion on the struggles that many African and African Diaspora societies grapple with in the perplexing issue of gender and development - concentrating on gains that have been made and the challenges yet to be surmounted.

Author : Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,65 MB
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1838678638

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The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. 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.

Author : Marion Keim
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 1920689206

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This publication is the first of its kind, and the focus on sport and development policy is a new and exciting initiative towards developing a Global Policy Index in the future.ÿ

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Prelim Jimoh.pmd 16/06/2010, 12:122 Gender, Sport and Development in Africa Edited by Jimoh Shehu Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa Cross-cultural Perspectives on Patterns of Representations and Marginalization 1. [...] CODESRIA publishes Africa Development, the longest standing Africa based social science journal; Afrika Zamani, a journal of history; the African Sociological Review; the African Journal of International Affairs; Africa Review of Books and the Journal of Higher Education in Africa. [...] Her areas of research intersect the fields of communication, history and cultural studies and her articles have appeared in various international journals, including Nordic Journal of African Studies, African Review and Jouranl of Communication and Language Arts. [...] 18, 2, 2009; 175-195; 'Between Magic and Logic: Globalization and the Challenge of Medical Collaboration in Ngugi's Wizard of the Crow', in Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, Vol. [...] Jimoh Shehu is a senior lecturer in the Department of Physical Education, Health & Recreation at the University of Botswana, where he teaches pedagogy and sociology of sport.

Author : Roger Levermore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 16,45 MB
Release : 2008-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230584403

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Investigating the capacity of sport to act both as a conduit for traditional development assistance activities and as an agent for change in its own right, this book argues that sport can contribute to the development process, particularly where traditional development approaches have difficulty in engaging with communities.

Author : Chuka A. Onwumechili
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File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Soccer for women
ISBN : 9781032665665

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"This is the first book to take an in-depth look at women's football in Africa. Exploring the history, contemporary landscape and future development of the women's game on the African continent, the book offers an important new perspective on the rise of women's sport more broadly. The book traces the history of women's soccer in Africa from its introduction during the period of European colonisation and it's subsequent ban by colonial authorities, through to the present day period of rapidly increasing spectatorship, rising participation rates and growing media interest. It reflects on the social obstacles to girls' participation, including socio-cultural and religious barriers, as well as important social issues in football such as homophobia, discrimination and abuse, and considers why certain countries have dominated African competitions, including Nigeria, Ghana and, latterly, South Africa, Equitorial Guinea and Cameroon. The book also examines the crucial role played by youth academies, and FIFA's leadership role, and considers the challenges faced by African players, clubs and countries on the global stage. This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in football, sport history, women's sport, Africa, development studies, or the relationships between sport and wider society"--

Author : Michael Kevane
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 17,58 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781588262387

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Kevane explores gender issues in Africa in the context of the continent's poor economic performance.