Buch
Monografie
Gender, sport and development in Africa : cross-cultural perspectives on patterns of representations and marginalization
Herausgegeben von:
Shehu, Jimoh
Dakar:
Codesria
,
2010
,
154 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Herausgegeben von: | Shehu, Jimoh |
| Jahr: | 2010 |
| Maße: | 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 286978306X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| To many young people, the term sport has an exhilarating ring; to many older persons, it signifies recreation and leisure. From colonial times, it has been viewed as a means of social control. Increasingly, it is being touted by governments and donor agencies as a self-evident tool of Africa’s development. How accurate are these individual, romantic and moral notions of sport? In this volume, eleven African scholars offer insightful analyses of the complex ideological and structural dimensions of modern sport as a cultural institution. 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. Gender, Sport and Development in Africa is an immensely important contribution to current debates on the broader impacts of sport on society. It is an essential reading for students, policy-makers and others interested in perspectives that interrogate the grand narratives of sport as a neutral instrument of development in African countries. Contents: The most Beautiful Game or the most Gender Violent Sport? Exploring the Interface between Soccer, Gender and Violence in Zimbabwe (Anusa Daimon) 2. From ‘Safety’ Zones to Public Spaces: Women’s Participation in Sport in Zimbabwe (Molly Manyonganise) 3. 2010 FIFA World Cup and the Patriarchy of Football Spectatorship in Malawi (Jessie Kabwila Kapasula) 4. Media, Sport and Male Dominance: Analysis of Sport Presentations in a Nigerian Newspaper (Aretha Oluwakemi Asakitikpi) 5. Football, Empowerment and Gender Equality: An Exploration of Elite-Level Women’s Football in South Africa (Mari Haugaa Engh) 6. Thiery Henry as Igwe: Soccer Fandom, Christening and Cultural Passage in Nollywood (Senayon Olaoluwa and Adewole Adejayan) 7. The Gendered Dimension of Competitive Sports in a Multicultural Context: The Mauritian Scenario (Ramola Ramtohul) 8. Challenging Gender Stereotypes: A Case Study of Three South African Soccer Players (Sharon Groenmeyer) 9. The Corporatization of Women’s Football in South Africa: A Case Study of the Sasol Sponsorship and its Transformative Potential (Lucy Mills) 10. Football for Hope Centres in Africa: Intentions, Assumptions and Gendered Implications (Jimoh Shehu) | |
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