Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, the Routledge Handbook of Sports Development is still the only book to fully map the discipline of sports development, covering theory, policy, academic research and professional practice.
Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, the Routledge Handbook of Sports Development is still the only book to fully map the discipline of sports development, covering theory, policy, academic research, and professional practice.
Spanning the whole spectrum of activity in sports development, from youth sport and mass participation to the development of elite athletes, the book identifies and defines the core functions of sports development and its interface with cognate fields such as politics, economics, social welfare, coaching, and education. This new edition includes expanded coverage of important and emerging topics such as sport-for-development, evaluation, older adults, women’s sport, informal sport, athlete welfare, human rights and professionalisation, as well as a completely new section examining connections between sports development and international and global issues.
Featuring the work of leading international scholars and practitioners, and now with more international case studies, including from the Global South, the Routledge Handbook of Sports Development is essential reading for all students, researchers, and professionals with an interest in this important and rapidly evolving discipline.
Section 1: Contemporary Contexts of Sports Development. Introduction:
Sports Development in Context: Historical, Institutional, and Cultural
Contingencies.
1. The Organisational Context: Why Changes Matter in the
Organisation of Sports and Exercise in Denmark.
2. Sports Clubs Contexts
(and Sports Development).
3. The Changing Contexts of Sports Development:
Exploring Shifts in Skateboarding Provision in Aotearoa New Zealand.
4.
Sports Development in Latin America: Institutions, Politics, and the Struggle
for Good Governance.
5. Beyond the Pyramid Metaphor: Unravelling the Complex
Interplay between Grassroots Sports and Elite Sports. Section 2: Sports
Development and Young People. Introduction: Youth Sport in a Changing World.
6. Sports Development and Young People: The Role of International and
Supranational Organisations.
7. Sport and Youth Development in France during
the Decade
20142024. 8. The Development of Youth Sport in Sweden.
9. "Let
Freedom Ring": Youth Sports Development in the United States.
10. Youth
Sports Development in Ghana: Policies, Collaboration, Gated Playing Fields,
and Sport Betting. Section 3: Sports Development and Participation across
Adult Populations. Introduction: Longstanding Stagnation and Alternative
Possibilities in Adult-Orientated Sports Development.
11. Sport and Adult
Mass Participation in England.
12. Stratified Sports for All: Critical
Perspectives on Sports Development Policy in Flanders (Belgium).
13. Sport
Events and Adult Sport Participation.
14. Sports Development and Informal
Sport Participation. Section 4: Sports Development and Elite Athletes.
Introduction: Elite Sports Development: Challenges and Transformations.
15.
Elite Sports Development in South Korea: Characteristics and Debates.
16.
Elite Sports Development: Türkiye and South Africa.
17. Elite Sports
Development in Egalitarian Contexts: Paradoxes, Compromises, and the
Scandinavian Middle-Way.
18. Para-Athlete Development: A Review of
Contemporary International Approaches.
19. Fostering Healthy Athlete
Development in Womens Artistic Gymnastics: An Ecological Approach. Section
5: Sport for Development. Introduction: Sport for Development: Local
Contexts, Policy, and Practices.
20. Sport for Development in the United
Kingdom.
21. Sport for Development in Norway.
22. Sport for Development in
Canada.
23. Sport for Development in Vietnam.
24. Sport for Development in
Zambia. Section 6: Sports Development and International and Global Issues.
Introduction: Global, International, and Local Dynamics of Change.
25. Sports
Development in a Warming World: Towards Integrated Resilience and
Sustainability.
26. Sports Development and Human Rights.
27. Migrant
Integration in and through Community Sports.
28. Governance and Ethics in
Sports Development. Section 7: Issues in the Practice of Sports Development.
Introduction: Understanding Context to Navigate Complexity.
29. Volunteering
in Sport.
30. Safeguarding Children in Sports Development Contexts.
31. Sport
Development, Sport Coaching, and Domain Specificity.
32. Partnership Working
and Sports Development.
33. Government Funding for Sports Development: A
Focus on Sport Governing Bodies. Section 8: Evaluation and Evidence in Sports
Development. Introduction: An Amalgamation between Methodological Advances
and Intractable Evaluation Challenges.
34. Sport-for-Developments
Contribution to Social Policy Objectives: The Difficult Relationship between
Politics and Evidence.
35. Sports Development: Approaches and Methods for
Evaluation.
36. Approaches to Evaluating the Economic and Social Value of
Sports.
37. Translating Evaluation Evidence into Impact within Sports
Development.
Iain Lindsey is a Professor in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Durham University, UK. He has published widely in sport, development, and politics journals. He was co-editor of the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics from 2009 to 2018.
Anna-Maria Strittmatter is an Associate Professor of Sport Management at the School of Health Sciences at Örebro University, Sweden. Her range of expertise encompasses sport political processes, sports internal organising, social inclusion in decision-making, and sustainable development in and by sport organisations, as well as Olympic legacy and leverage.
Mike Sam is a Professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Sport Policy and Politics. Mike serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and the International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing.
Kyle Rich is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sport Management at Brock University, Canada. Kyles research looks at the impact of policy, community, and inclusion/exclusion on experiences in sport, recreation, and physical activity programming.
