Routledge Handbook of Sport, Leisure, and Social Justice

Stefan Lawrence is Senior Lecturer in sport business management at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Stefan has published widely on sport and leisure and their relationship to social justice and digital cultures respectively. He is a member of the editorial boards for Leisure Sciences, Leisure Studies and Managing Sport and Leisure, and is a Principal Fellow of Advance HE. Joanne Hill is Senior Lecturer in physical education and sport sociology at the University of Bedfordshire, UK, where she is also Co-Deputy Director for the Institute of Sport and Physical Activity Research. She researches the impact of the social construction of the body, gender and ethnicity on physical activity and sport engagement; and critical pedagogies/social justice in physical education and higher education, using participatory and creative methods. Rasul Mowatt is a Professor and Researcher who studies social justice and the geographies of race. He is Head of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management at North Carolina State’s College of Natural Resources, USA. Before joining NC State, Rasul served on Indiana University’s faculty for 15 years and previously taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is president of The Academy of Leisure Sciences, co-editor of Leisure Sciences, and founding editor of Recreation, Parks and Tourism in Public Health.

PART I

Historicising and theorising social justice in sport and leisure

1 Sport, leisure, and social justice at the neoliberal moment: challenges for integrity and activist scholarship

Stefan Lawrence, Joanne Hill, and Rasul Mowatt

2 Contrasting approaches to social justice in sport

Jim Lusted

3 Heritage, public history, and social justice in sport and leisure

Matthew L. McDowell

4 Sport, leisure, and social justice in the age of precarity and prosumption

Spencer Swain

PART II

Sex, gender, and sexualities

5 Women, sport, and activism: an international perspective

Celia Valiente

6 Sport, masculinities, and homosexualities: why inclusive masculinity theory can be considered dangerous for queer sportspeople

Richard Pringle

7 The invisibility of trans men in sport and sporting spaces

Abby Barras

8 Sex-testing and discrimination in sport: upholding an uneven playing field

Grace Athanas-Linden

9 Doing and undoing gender in physical education and youth sport: the potential for practice

Hannah Kettley-Linsell and Joanne Hill

PART III

‘Race’, forced migration, and religion

10 Social justice, sport, leisure, and racism in the United States

Adam Love, Steven N. Waller, Ashley Gardner, and Chermaine Cole

11 Race, social justice, leisure, and sport in Brazil: a critical perspective in defence of anti-racism

Lennon Giulio Santos de Farias, Neilton de Sousa Ferreira Júnior, Léo Barbosa Nepomuceno, Eduardo Vinícius Mota e Silva, Luciana Venâncio, Luiz Sanches Neto, and Henrique Antunes Cunha Júnior

12 Sport and social justice for refugees: advocating for leisure activities as a basic human need

Mark Doidge

13 Mental health, Drapetomania, and professional football: a memorial to Dalian Atkinson

Colin King

14 Christianity, sport, and social justice

David Torevell

15 Race, social justice, and children’s everyday leisure geographies

Utsa Mukherjee

PART IV

Physical education, young people, and families

16 Families, advocacy, and social justice in youth sport

Ruth Jeanes and Dawn Trussell

17 Teaching for social justice through physical education

Rod Philpot, Wayne Smith, Richard Pringle, Alan Ovens, and Göran Gerdin

18 Legitimate embodiment in formal education: imagery in physical education textbooks

Ana Rey-Cao and Alba González-Palomares

19 Chinese government’s modern governance and the challenges to social justice in school sports

Honglu Zhang

20 Teaching for social justice through physical education in the context of US legislation and policies against critical race theory

Micah J. Dobson

21 School physical education and social justice: what are we doing in Brazil?

Isabel Porto Filgueiras, Elisabete dos Santos Freire, Bruno Freitas Meireles, Ewerton Leonardo da Silva Vieira, Bruna Gabriela Marques, Graciele Massoli Rodrigues, Luiz Sanches Neto, and Luciana Venâncio

PART V

Sport, development, and community

22 Equality and social justice in sport for development and peace

Simon C. Darnell and Rob Millington

23 Sport for development: a troubling past to a brighter future?

Michael Sup

24 Implementing service-learning for social change in sport management curricula

Michael B. Edwards, Kimberly A. Bush, and J. Lin Dawson

25 Community sport development: where sport development and social justice meet

Janine Partington and Dan Bates

26 Sport, Physical Education (PE) and Sport-for-All (SfA) programmes: intersectional perspectives from Cyprus and Greece

Foteini Papadopoulou and Symeon Dagkas

27 Socioeconomic status in sport and leisure engagement

Adam Gemar

28 Addressing power dynamics in disability sport studies: emancipatory participatory principles for social justice research

Damian Haslett

29 Sport and crime reduction

Peter R. Harris

PART VI

Elite sport, activism, and media

30 English football, safe standing, and social movements: an eventful sociology of fan activism

Mark Turner

31 Branding social justice in sport

Antonio S. Williams, Tanya K. Jones, Kelly J. Brummett, and Zack P. Pedersen

32 National anthems and athlete activism

Keith D. Parry, Daryl Adair, and Jamie Cleland

33 Sport, the media, and athlete activism: ‘just shut up and play’

Steph Doehler

34 Social media and online activism in women’s rugby: From #IAmEnough to #ICare

Ali Bowes and Alex Culvin

35 The five groups of environmental sports activists: a complex medley

Toby Miller

Future directions and research methods for social justice

36 Research methods for sport, leisure, and social justice

Ian Jones and Jayne Caudwell

37 Arts-based research and social justice in sport and leisure

David Carless and Kitrina Douglas

38 Participatory research in sport, leisure, and forced migration: where is the social justice?

Chris Webster and Robyn Smith

39 Indigenous methodologies for sport, leisure and social justice research: a Pacific studies perspective

Gina Hawkes

40 Research integrity and ethics in sport social justice research: safe practice

Christina Philippou

41 Intersectional scholarship on sport and leisure: trends, tensions, and promising directions

Prisca Bruno Massao and Mari Haugaa Engh