Sport and Social Exclusion

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
List of figures......Page 11
List of tables......Page 12
Foreword......Page 14
Author\'s preface and acknowledgements......Page 17
Glossary......Page 19
Constraints on playing sport......Page 22
Benefits claimed for playing sport......Page 25
Outline of the book......Page 27
From absolute and relative poverty to social exclusion......Page 31
Measuring poverty and social exclusion......Page 36
The geography of exclusion......Page 41
Sport social class and exclusion......Page 44
Exclusion, sport and citizenship......Page 46
Introduction: why we know so little about the economic gradient in sport and leisure......Page 52
The context of anti-poverty policies and leisure......Page 53
Sport and poverty, and prices......Page 55
Local authority anti-poverty strategies and leisure cards/passports......Page 59
Case Study 1: leisure cards in Leicester and Oxford......Page 65
Case Study 2: gym for free/be active, Birmingham......Page 70
Conclusions......Page 75
Introduction: children and poverty......Page 77
The early years: home, play and primary schooling......Page 79
Developing sports interests: secondary schools......Page 83
Dropping out or sustaining interest? Sports clubs and out-of school schemes......Page 89
Case study 3: the rise (and premature demise) of the PE, School Sport, Club Links/Young People\'s Strategy......Page 93
Developing commitments: sports performance and excellence......Page 97
Case study 4: sport for secondary schoolchildren: go for gold and Champion Coaching in Nottinghamshire......Page 100
Conclusions......Page 108
Introduction: sport and the gendered experience of social exclusion......Page 111
Female experiences of poverty and social exclusion......Page 112
Girls, women, sport and social exclusion......Page 114
Girls\' and women\'s empowerment through sport......Page 118
Girls\' and women\'s inclusion in and through sport......Page 120
Conclusions......Page 126
Introduction: trends in aging and social exclusion......Page 128
Ageing, leisure and sport......Page 132
Conclusions......Page 137
Introduction: from race to ethnicity, from segregation to cohesion......Page 139
Ethnicity, disadvantage, exclusion and cohesion......Page 142
Multi-cultural participation in sport......Page 148
Sport, ethnicity and exclusion......Page 153
Interventions......Page 155
Conclusions......Page 157
Introduction: attitudes, policies and structures regarding disability and sport......Page 160
Disability, poverty and social exclusion......Page 165
Disability, mental illness, learning difficulties and sport......Page 166
Case study 5: disability and sport and leisure in Leicester......Page 174
Conclusions......Page 179
Introduction: youth and crime - the facts......Page 181
Causes and triggers of youth delinquency, and interventions......Page 187
The growing interest in sport as an intervention in youth delinquency......Page 191
Case study 6: intervening to make a difference - Street Sport, Stoke as a primary intervention and Solent Sports Counselling as a tertiary one......Page 193
Case Study 7: Positive Futures (PF)......Page 207
Midnight basketball and other recent schemes......Page 209
Conclusions......Page 211
Rural England - idyll or exclusion?......Page 214
Sport and leisure services and participation......Page 216
Sport and exclusion in urban England......Page 223
Implementing inclusion policies and programmes......Page 233
The Third Way and social capital in the form of sports clubs......Page 245
Case study 8: Street Games......Page 251
Conclusions......Page 254
12 Conclusions......Page 255
Summary of findings......Page 256
Emerging areas - sport and sexuality, sport for asylum seekers and refugees and sport and religion......Page 260
Conclusion: equity, non-participation and exclusion......Page 264
Postlude: after the coalition, a deluge?......Page 274
References......Page 279
Author index......Page 322
Subject index......Page 334