Sport for Development and Peace Flashcards
How does SDP align with neoliberal thinking?
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How can SDP be a good thing for communities?
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What do we need to do in order to avoid the negative consequences of SDP?
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What are the 2 meanings for development?
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What is the dominant approach to sport as development? What are the critiques of this approach?
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What is the sport for transformation approach?
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Know the difference between sport plus and plus sport models (and which one is better).
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Sport fosters a number of positive benefits:
- self-esteem
- self-efficacy
- confidence
- poise
- health benefits
Main discursive themes in sport culture:
- sacrifice for the game
- strive for perfection
- do not shy away from pain and challenge
- anything is possible
- nearly all exclusively to individuals
It seems sport discourse does obscure ____ benefits.
social
Sport can also reinforce various social ills:
- sexism
- racism
- classism
- ableism
- homophobia
- macho masculinity/hyper-masculinity
- a predilection for war-language, war imagery, and even direct military recruiting
The blind spot to social benefits means that these social ills are …. according to sport discourse. In other words, sport discourse is silent on all these problems because…
- not ‘within the true’
- it claims to be completely independent of and totally unaffected by them (ie. is apolitical)
Sport has a long history of being used for political purposes:
- preparation for war including duty, honour, patriotism, and obedience
- staging nationalist demonstrates power
- enculturation: immigrants introduced to the Canadian way of life through sports
Sport reinforces our current _____ system at the ____ and ____ levels, and hardly anyone thinks twice about this.
- political
- national
- institutional
When individuals attempt to be ____ through sport, often significant ____ result. Athletes are expected to ____ and not _____.
- political
- consequences
- play
- protest