Overview

This edited collection problematizes trajectories of health promotion across the lifespan. It provides a distinctive critical social science perspective of the various directions taken by dominant policies in their approach to promoting sport for all ages. It offers an array of theoretical and methodologically diverse perspectives on this topic, and highlights the intersections between different life stages and social, economic and cultural factors in the developed world, including class, gender, ability, family dynamics and/or race. Sport and Physical Activity across the Lifespan critically explores dominant policies of age-focussed sport promotion in order to highlight its implications within the context of particular life stages as they intersect with social, cultural and economic factors. This includes an examination of organised sport for pre-schoolers; ‘at-risk’ youth sport programmes; and the creation of sporting sub-cultures within the mid-life ‘market’. This book will be of interest to those wanting to learning more about how age and life stages affect the way people think about and participate in sport, and to better understand the impacts of sport across the lifespan.

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Author:   Rylee A. Dionigi ,  Michael Gard
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2018
Weight:   0.506kg
ISBN:  

9781349695034

ISBN 10:   1349695033
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   04 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"1. Introduction and Overview; Rylee A. Dionigi and Michael Gard .- Section 1: Setting the Context: Sport Participation and Sport Policy .- 2. Sport Participation Across the Lifespan: Australian Trends and Policy Implications; Rochelle M. Eime and Jack Harvey .- 3. Diversity in Participation Reigns, Policy Challenges Ahead: Sport for All (Ages) From a European Perspective; Jeroen Scheerder, Hanne Vandermeerschen and Koen Breedveld .- 4. From a Lucky Few to the Reluctant Many: Interrogating the Politics of Sport for All; Michael Gard, Rylee A. Dionigi and Claudio Dionigi .- Section 2: Early Childhood, Youth and Sport .- 5. Tykes and Timbits: A Critical Examination of Organized Sport Programs for Preschoolers; Jessica Fraser-Thomas and Parissa Safai .- 6. An Uneven Playing Field: Talent Identification Systems and the Perpetuation of Participation Biases in High Performance Sport; Nick Wattie and Joseph Baker .- 7. Girls’ Presentationsof Self in Physical Culture: A Consideration of Why Sport is Not Always the Answer; Eimear Enright .- 8. ‘At-Risk’ Youth Sport Programs: Another Way of Regulating Boys?; Rachael Hutchesson, Rylee A. Dionigi and Kristina Gottschall .- 9. Sport is Not for All: The Transformative (Im)possibilities of Sport for Young Disabled People; Hayley Fitzgerald .- Section 3: Sport in Adulthood .- 10. Adult Sport Participation and Life Transitions: The Significance of Childhood and Inequality; David Haycock and Andy Smith .- 11. Sport for All, or Fit for Two? Governing the (In)active Pregnancy; Shannon Jette .- 12. The Role of Sport in the Lives of Mothers of Young Children; Katherine E. Soule .- 13. The Gay Games, Safe Spaces and the Promotion of Sport for All?; Chelsea Litchfield and c="""" efforts="""" to="""" offset="""" adults’="""" psychosocial="""" obstacles; bradley="""" w.="""" young="""" bettina="""" callary="""" 15.="""" the="""" ‘market’="""" creation="""" of sporting="""" sub-cultures;="""" rylee="""" a.="""" dionigi="""" chelsea="""" litchfield="""" 16.="""" outdoor="""" adventurous sport:="""" all="""" ages?;="""" elizabeth="""" c.j.="""" pike="""" 17.="""" sport,="""" physical="""" activity="""" ageing:="""" are="""" we on="""" right="""" track?;="""" kelly="""" carr,="""" kristy="""" smith,="""" patricia="""" weir,="""" sean="""" horton."

Reviews

This edited volume comprises some extremely thought-provoking chapters within the field of the Sport for All discourse. ... The book seeks to bust the myths perpetuated by the sport evangelists by deconstructing them through empirical and historical analyses and presents the tensions within and unintended consequences of such narratives. (Mark Brooke, idrottsforum.org, June, 2018)

This edited volume comprises some extremely thought-provoking chapters within the field of the Sport for All discourse. ... The book seeks to bust the myths perpetuated by the sport evangelists by deconstructing them through empirical and historical analyses and presents the tensions within and unintended consequences of such narratives. (Mark Brooke, idrottsforum.org, June, 2018) This book considers the ideological attraction of `Sport for all' as a goal of public health across a global setting, at all stages of the life course and discusses successes and failures of the concept along the way. ... This book is suitable for researchers, undergraduate and post-graduate students and public health practitioners, who will all gain useful insights from it. (Anne Elliott, Annals of Leisure Research, February 01, 2019)

Author Information

Rylee A. Dionigi is Associate Professor in the School of Exercise Science, Sport and Health at Charles Sturt University, Australia. Michael Gard is Associate Professor in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia.

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