Reconciliation through Sports? The case of South Africa

Höglund, Kristine; Sundberg, Ralph

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“…This dimension is particularly pronounced in situations of war or inter-community conflict, where a sports event may be perceived as neutral ground, a temporary escape from tense community relations, or even as a site for reconciliation (Stidder & Haasner, 2007;Höglund & Sundberg, 2008;Schulenkorf, 2010).…”

Section: Conceptualizing Safe Spacementioning

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Cultivating Safe Space: Lessons for Sport-for-Development Projects and Events

Spaaij

Schulenkorf

2014

Journal of Sport Management

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Recent research has examined how sports events and sport-for-development (SFD) projects can create, sustain, and maximize positive social impacts for local communities. This paper takes this debate forward by considering the cultivation of safe space as a key ingredient of SFD management and community event leverage. Safe space is conceptualized as a multidimensional process that involves physical, psychological/affective, sociocultural, political, and experimental dimensions. Drawing on empirical findings from Sri Lanka, Israel, and Brazil, the paper shows how these different dimensions of safe space operate and interact in practice, and identifies practical strategies that sport managers, policymakers, and practitioners can use to cultivate safe spaces in and through sports projects and events.

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Section: Conceptualizing Safe Spacementioning

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Cultivating Safe Space: Lessons for Sport-for-Development Projects and Events

Spaaij

Schulenkorf

2014

Journal of Sport Management

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“…They implicitly or explicitly follow broad peacebuilding principles such as Allport's (1954) Contact Hypothesis or Lederach's (1997, 26) emphasis on encounter as 'humans-in-relationship' in ending inter-group antagonisms. Sport also underwent structural change in order to become more representative of South Africa's new democracy (Keim 2003;Höglund and Sundberg 2008). Another notable case is that of North and South Korea, where 'trans-national, pan-Korean, identity ... has been reinvigorated by the often emotional celebration of a common cultural heritage and national unity through the various sporting encounters between the two nations' (Merkel 2008, 308).…”

Section: Sport Political Division and Peacementioning

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Sport for peace in Northern Ireland? Civil society, change and constraint after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement

Mitchell

Somerville

Hargie

2016

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…16). There are benefits to engaging in team sports, including opportunities to learn about the other, to identify cultural misunderstandings, and to work through conflict (Giulianotti, 2011;Höglund & Sundberg, 2008;Kidd, 2008;Walseth & Fasting, 2004). Intramurals is one way students can participate in team sports on campus.…”

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“…Second, Höglund and Sundberg (2008) highlighted the application of sport policies to create fair representation in South African sports team. South African governing bodies adopted a policy of "sport unity" that was "aimed to create a completely new system [of team selections] based on unity, equality, empowerment and representation" (Höglund & Sundberg, 2008, p. 809).…”

Section: Sport and Social Changementioning

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“…The very nature of sport, teams, and winning can create tension if not appropriately channeled. Höglund and Sundberg's (2008) final channel for reconciliation through sport was individual development. In their conclusion, they argued that this development "rests mainly on the creation of opportunities for those at risk of marginalization or of a life in conflict with the rest of society" (Höglund & Sundberg, 2008, p. 813) and pointed to successful soccer and basketball programs that have contributed to reduced crime, increased understanding of health issues, or even helping kids overcome trauma.…”

Section: Sport and Social Changementioning

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Development of the Global-Self Through Collegiate Recreational Sports

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Today's student has more access to global issues than any previous generation. Nearly one million higher education students study abroad worldwide, the workplace reflects a need to be interculturally competent, and students rarely have opportunities to learn how to thrive in the new global environment. This study explored how higher education, and specifically collegiate recreation, is responding to this reality. The development of Killick's global-self is a guiding theme and was used to investigate how students perceive the development of their global-self after experiencing interventions designed to introduce the concepts of internationalization and globalization into a collegiate recreation intramural program. The study also examines how students experience the interventions. The literature review focuses on institutional perspective, student engagement, learning theory, the role of sport and recreation in social change, and collegiate recreation professional competencies. A bounded 8-week case study, using aspects of community action research, was the research method. Observations, surveys, and semi-structured interviews provide data on students' perceptions of their development of a global-self and their experience in the designed intramural program.Themes identified in the data provide evidence that the interventions helped students develop both their sense of self-in-the-world and their ability to act-in-the-world. The data suggest that students found value in the interventions and believed them to be a worthwhile addition to the intramural program. Finally, the results of the study suggest that similar interventions can be applied to multiple areas in collegiate recreation and potentially expanded to other forms of co-curricular activities.

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Reconciliation through Sports? The case of South Africa

Cited by 72 publications

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Cultivating Safe Space: Lessons for Sport-for-Development Projects and Events

Cultivating Safe Space: Lessons for Sport-for-Development Projects and Events

Sport for peace in Northern Ireland? Civil society, change and constraint after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement

Development of the Global-Self Through Collegiate Recreational Sports

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