Participants’ views of the potential of international youth football tournaments for development in the Global South
| Autor: | Solveig Straume, Prisca Bruno Massao |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Cultural Studies
biology Qualitative interviews 05 social sciences Global South Gender studies 030229 sport sciences Football biology.organism_classification Sport for development 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Tanzania 0502 economics and business Development economics Tournament Sociology Positive Youth Development Research question 050212 sport leisure & tourism |
| Zdroj: | Sport in Society. 19:1635-1651 |
| ISSN: | 1743-0445 1743-0437 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17430437.2016.1159198 |
| Popis: | This paper investigates the potential of international youth football tournaments for youth development in the Global South. The tournaments under study were East Africa Cup in Tanzania, and Norway Cup in Norway. Through qualitative interviews with tournament participants, we addressed the following research question: What are the participant’s views of the potentials of Norway Cup and East Africa Cup in dealing with development issues facing youth in the Global South? Our findings demonstrate that all interviewees consider the tournaments potentially beneficial for youth development in the Global South. In the analysis, we identified four different categories, mostly representing positive outcomes of tournament participation. We argue that a functionalist neo-liberal notion of sport is visible in the data material. Thus, our findings correspond with Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) research showing how reproductions of the SDP functionalist discourse ‘continue to be leveraged through sport a... |
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