Sport and Social Equality

A critical introduction
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-138-20090-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch

Reihe: Routledge Critical Perspectives on Equality and Social Justice in Sport and Leisure

This book offers a critical examination of ‘the equality consensus’ in sport – meaning the ways in which sport policy and sporting cultures reproduce the ideology that sport is an inherent force for good. It interrogates the idea that sport offers an exemplar of equality, fair play, meritocracy, equal opportunity and that these ‘innate’ sporting values can be harnessed to promote social equality beyond the playing field. It presents a more complex and nuanced picture of the equality consensus by exploring the theoretical positions related to social equality that help identify what equality actually ‘is’ or ‘should’ be, and how it might best be reached in and through sport.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lusted, Jim

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Approaches to Social Equality in Sport: Equal rights, opportunities or outcomes? 3. The Origins of Sport and Social Equality: Morality, fair play and political interference 4. The Development of Sport and Social Equality: Sport for welfare, sport for all, sport for inclusion, equality in sport 5. Formalising Social Equality in Sport: The emergence equality policies in sport since the 1990s 6. No Problem Here? The resistance to equality policies in sport at regional governing bodies 7. Equality in the Sporting Workplace: The best person for the job? 8. When Equality becomes Inequality: Competing interpretations of social equality among sports fans 9. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Jim Lusted is Senior Lecturer in Sport Studies at University of Northampton, UK. He has been researching issues related to social equality in sport for over ten years and has taught on a variety of undergraduate sport programmes during this time. His primary research interest has been around equality policies in British sport, particularly focusing on the challenges facing their implementation into local, grassroots sport organisations. He holds several voluntary roles related to equality in a number of sport organisations including at Kick It Out, English football’s anti-discrimination campaign group where he is currently Chair of the grassroots guidance group.