Expecting too much? : can Indigenous sport programmes in Australia deliver development and social outcomes?

Tony Rossi

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Abstract

Sport holds a special place in the national psyche of many nations with claims for sport being far reaching. More recently sport has been identified as a development and an educational tool in the areas of health and behaviour modification. Against the backdrop of the Close the Gap blueprint for Indigenous Australians and within the context of competing claims for sport, this paper discusses whether sport can genuinely contribute to community development in Indigenous Australian communities. Drawing on cases from sports-based programmes that spanned a 5-year research programme and informed by a theoretical framework inspired by Sen’s notion of ‘Development as Freedom’, this paper makes the case that sport can be a robust developmental tool capable of delivering social outcomes to marginalized communities.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)181-195
Number of pages15
JournalInternational Journal of Sport Policy and Politics
Volume7
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

Keywords

  • Aboriginal Australians
  • freedom
  • sports
  • well, being

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