The politics of pleasure in girl-centred sport for development programming

Chawansky, Megan; Carney, Alison

doi:10.1080/23802014.2017.1365624

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“…The dialogues between the embedded researcher and the girls in which possible transfer of themes from longboarding instruction were explored in their daily lives, suggest that the project may have had a socializing effect congruent with the conventional purposes of SfD projects for disadvantaged girls. Pleasure is often not a main objective in SfD projects for girls however, although an underlying assumption of such programmes is that sport participation is fun and enjoyable (Chawansky and Carney 2017). Consequently, relatively little attention has been paid by policy makers and scholars to how and why girls may experience positive affect during SfD projects.…”

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“…Thrift (2008) has argued researchers/scholars should make greater use of NRT because it emphasizes the immediate experience of movement in space. In this paper we take up Thorpe and Rinehart's (2010) and Chawansky and Carney's (2017) challenge for researchers to explore affect in action sports and SfD projects using NRT. The research question of this study was: how can a nonrepresentational lens be used to describe the generated affects in an action SfD project that aimed to enhance the physical and mental wellbeing of participating girls from disadvantaged neighbourhoods?…”

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“…Such projects tend to be plagued however, by instrumental perspectives that require measurable results and progress in the use of sport and life skills. The enjoyment and pleasure that these activities may evoke tend to be ignored and/or seen as not measurable and therefore unimportant (Chawansky and Carney 2017). Thorpe, Hayhurst, and Chawansky (2018) also contend that the actual experiences of these girls during these projects tend to be ignored and subordinated to the goal of long-term participation.…”

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“…Forde and Frisby 2015;Hayhurst 2011;Thorpe 2014). The actual experiences of the girls has received less scholarly attention while scholars have also argued that more attention needs to be paid to every day experiences and affect including pleasure that such participation in SfD evokes in girls (Chawansky and Carney 2017;Thorpe and Chawansky 2016;Thorpe and Rinehart 2010).…”

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“…Action sport athletes and those who wish to emphasize (and exploit) the image of freedom associated with these sports have claimed this freedom as an essential element of action sports (Smits 2019). The aforementioned research however, has also paid relatively little attention to exploring the pleasure and enjoyment and/or affect that may be generated in those sports (Chawansky and Carney 2017;Pringle, Rinehart, and Caudwell 2015). Thorpe and Rinehart (2010) suggest exploring the affect evoked in action sports through the lens of nonrepresentational theory (NRT).…”

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The way we roll: the use of longboards and cameras by girls to roll through the urban outdoors

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2020

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We use a nonrepresentational (NRT) lens to explore the affect generated in the use of an action sport for girls from disadvantaged backgrounds in a short-term Sport for Development (SfD) project. Longboards and GoPro cameras were used to enable adolescent girls from disadvantaged communities to participate in urban outdoor action sport and to be digitally engaged by making vlogs of their participation. We used an NRT framework to explore the ways affects were produced during longboard instruction practices. The data consisted of 36 longboard instruction observations, 22 focus groups and 230 min of selected video fragments with the girls. We show how 'U on Board' became an counter pedagogic space and discuss how such SfD projects can create knowledges and pleasure in ways that can open up new possibilities for shaping sport practices.

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The way we roll: the use of longboards and cameras by girls to roll through the urban outdoors

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Leaders building relationships with young refugees during a sport project

Smits

Knoppers

2021

Sport in Society

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The focus of this paper is to examine how social work students (SWs) attempted to enact social work principles to engage in relationship building with young refugees during a Sport for Development project. The project, 'U on Board' was built on the assumption that pleasure and enjoyment in physical activity could contribute to the wellbeing of participants. The project took place at a refugee centre in a Dutch midsized city. We drew on Foucauldian notions of pastoral power and dressage to analyze how SWs applied social work principles to engage in relationship building with participating refugees. The Foucauldian based analysis revealed the SWs built positive relationships with the refugees by applying principles they had learned in their social work education through the disciplining power of dressage and of pastoral power.Recent reviews of Sport for Development (SfD) research and sport and forced migration studies found that most of the scholarly attention has focused on the objectives and content of such programs with few if any, focusing specifically on the congruency between the objectives of the program and the skill set of those who offer or lead the sport activities 1 (Schulenkorf, Sherry, and Rowe 2016;Spaaij et al. 2019). Based on their review and critique of core pedagogical strategies used in SfD initiatives, Spaaij and Jeanes (2013) suggested that establishing and maintaining positive relationships between those offering a project (leaders) and those young people for whom the project is earmarked should be a primary goal of such programs. Scholarly explorations of skills that may enable leaders/workers to engage in relationship building in SfD projects have however, received relatively little scholarly attention. [End note: In this paper, we refer to those working with participants in these programs as leaders.]Although those who work in SfD projects may possess the physical expertise to transmit sport skills to participants, leaders may overlook the needs of participants in SfD projects or focus on objectives such as working towards sport club membership and developing competitive sport skills (e.g. Waardenburg et al. 2019). Sport professionals are educated to teach sport skills but may not have the necessary expertise in working with youth such as young refugees. In contrast, relationship building is a core objective of social work and its

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Innovations in sport for development and peace research

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McDonald

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Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal

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This collection emerged from the Innovations in Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) Research Symposium held in Atlanta, GA, in 2016. The contributors explore new terrain in seeking to further an innovative agenda on SDP within development discourses and practices. The authors provide insights from plural empirical and theoretical domains, including critical, feminist, post-colonial, and cultural studies perspectives. A central goal of this collection is to anticipate, inspire, and shape the next phase of research in, on, and about SDP. A further goal is to connect SDP and development scholarship.

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The politics of pleasure in girl-centred sport for development programming

Cited by 4 publications

References 20 publications

The way we roll: the use of longboards and cameras by girls to roll through the urban outdoors

The way we roll: the use of longboards and cameras by girls to roll through the urban outdoors

Leaders building relationships with young refugees during a sport project

Innovations in sport for development and peace research

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