Welcome to the streetfootballworld library.
Scroll down to browse through some of the most inspiring books about the role sport, and especially football, has to play in creating social change. If you have come across books that you think we should know of, please drop us an e-mail at communications@streetfootballworld.org.
A Wider Social Role for Sport: Who's Keeping the Score?
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Fred Coalter (2007)
Routledge; New edition
A Wider Social Role for Sport presents the political and historical context for this increased government interest in sport’s potential contribution to a range of social problems. The book explores the particular social problems that governments seek to address through sport, and examines the nature and extent of the evidence for sport’s positive role.
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Beyond the Scoreboard: Youth Employment Opportunities And Skills Development in the Sports Sector
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Giovanni di Cola (Editor) (2006)
International Labour Org
This
comprehensive collection examines how youth leadership and skills
development can be fostered through sports today. It considers what
sport means for social and economic development and how it can be an
innovative method of drawing attention to issues such as HIV/AIDS
prevention and the reduction of violence and poverty
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Child Welfare in Football
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Celia Brackenridge, Andy Pitchford, Kate Russell, Gareth Nutt (2006)
Routledge; New edition
Sport and those who run it have an important duty to ensure the safety and wellbeing of young participants. This text presents the findings of a unique research project into the experiences of a wide range of stakeholders in contemporary youth soccer, exploring crucial issues of child protection, social policy, and the culture and governance of sport.
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ELEVEN: Making Lives Better: 11 Stories of Development through Football
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Steve Fleming (2010)
Co-edited by streetfootballworld
Pitch
ELEVEN
presents the extraordinary transformation of eleven individuals through
football, many of them participants of streetfootballworld network
members. Written by Steve Fleming, co-founder of network member
Kick4Life, the book asks the question: can football become as successful
in the field of social development as it is in the global sports
industry.
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Evaluation kommunaler Sportprojekte zur sozialen Integration von Heranwachsenden
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Vladimir Borkovic (2010)
Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Written by streetfootballworld founder Dr. Vladimir Borković, the study evaluates the communal sports project “Straßenfußball für Toleranz” in Germany. It examines the impact of the programme on the communal, social and personal development of the participating players and communities. Only available in German.
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Football in Africa: Conflict, Conciliation and Community
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Gary Armstrong, Richard Giulianotti (Editors) (2004)
Palgrave Macmillan
This collection of articles seeks to answer many questions regarding the role of football in Africa. The authors draw on detailed fieldwork in African communities to examine football cultures across all regions of this complex continent. Nigeria, South Africa, Liberia, Kenya, Cameroon and Zimbabwe are among those football nations under analysis.
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Football, Education and Learning
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Steffi Biester, Jochen Föll, Luis Fernando Ramirez, Carsten Ress (2009)
KICKFAIR e.V.
Produced in collaboration between streetfootballworld network members KICKFAIR and CDI, this publication explores the relationship between street football and intercultural learning processes.
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Fußball für Frieden und Entwicklung
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Uli Jäger, Nadine Heptner (2009)
The book summarises the outcomes of an expert workshop on the role of football for peace and development, held in September 2008 in Germany in cooperation with the GIZ and the Institute for Peace Education Tübingen. Available only in German.
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Gaming the World: How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture
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Andrei S. Markovits & Lars Rensmann (2010)
Princeton Univ Pr
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book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in
which professional teams and their players have become agents of
globalization while at the same time fostering deep-seated and
antagonistic local allegiances and spawning new forms of cultural
conflict and prejudice.
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Gender, Sport and Development in Africa: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Patterns of Representations and Marginalization
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Jimoh Shehu (Editor) (2010)
Codesria
In this
volume, eleven African scholars offer insightful analyses of the complex
ideological and structural dimensions of modern sport as a cultural
institution. It highlights the various ways in which sport norms,
policies, practices and representations pervasively interface with
gender and other socially constructed categories of difference.
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Harnessing the Power of Sport for Development and Peace: Recommendations to Governments
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Sport for Development and Peace International Working Group (2008)
SDP IWG
This report presents evidence of the effectiveness of ‘Sport for Development and Peace’. The report demonstrates that well-designed programmes that prioritize the best values of sport can drive development goals forward.
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Let Me Tell You: Kenyan coastal girls talk about love, school, sex and football
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Sarah Forde ed. (2012)
Storymoja and Worldreader
In eleven eye-opening and insightful interviews, this book reveals the lives, thoughts, challenges and hopes of coastal Kenyan teenage girls. Sarah Forde has spent years working and playing football with these girls. In the process, they shared with her their stories. They eloquently tell of fractured and yet supportive families, the struggle to stay in school, dealing with dawning sexuality, boys and men, and their hopes and plans for a better future. Here, voices that are rarely given space to speak for themselves, speak clearly, with humour and grace.
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More than just a game: Soccer vs Apartheid: The Most Important Soccer Story Ever Told
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Chuck Korr and Marvin Close (2010)
Thomas Dunne Books
More Than Just a Game tells the little-known story of how soccer
transformed the lives of political prisoners on Robben Island, an
isolated hell-on-earth off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa that
housed black inmates during the apartheid era. Academic historian Korr and scriptwriter Close resurrect this overlooked
history with a vivid narrative. Brutal depictions of prison life make for compelling, at
times uncomfortable reading, and the challenges faced by the players'
association are presented in great detail, thanks to meticulous records
kept by prisoners.
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Nation Building At Play: Sports As A Tool For Social Integration In Post-Apartheid South Africa
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Marion Keim (2003)
Meyer & Meyer
Sport does have a meaningful and powerful role to play in the social transformation of South African society if care is taken to provide the necessary conditions for success. It offers us those conditions and at the conclusion some carefully thought-out recommendations for providing a level playing field for all our futures.
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Playing by Their Rules: Coastal teenage girls in Kenya on life, love and football
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Sarah Forde (2009)
CreateSpace
The book presents
the important work of streetfootballworld network member, Moving the
Goalposts, by telling the very personal stories of their young
participants. It is a unique reproduction of stories that are at times
shocking, sometimes heart-warming but mostly enlightening. For everyone
who would like to know more about the teenage lives of girls in East
Africa this is the book for you.
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Report on the International Year of Sport and Physical Education: Sport for a Better World
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United Nations (2005)
This publication from the United
Nations was published for the International Year of Sport and Physical
Education 2005. It pulls together hundreds of projects, activities,
conferences and events that have taken place around the world during
2005 using sport to enhance lives.
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Sport and Crime Reduction: The Role of Sports in Tackling Youth Crime
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Geoff Nichols (2007)
Routledge; 1 edition
This book provides an analysis of the rationale behind the sports-based activity programmes as a means of tackling crime, bringing together empirical research from programmes in the UK, US and Australia with an explanation and evaluation of the results of these initiatives.
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Sport and Development
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Yves Vanden Auweele, Charles Malcolm, Bert Meulders (2006)
LannooCampus
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than ten years ago sport was seen as a luxury for development and
sponsored sports projects had little or no priority. Today, sport is
becoming more accepted as an end in itself and a means for achieving
development objectives.
Indeed sport, recreation and play are
increasingly important elements of development programs around the
world, which in turn is contributing to welfare, health and the
education of children and adolescents.
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Sport for Development and Peace: A Critical Sociology (Globalizing Sports Studies)
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Simon Darnell (to be released Jan. 2012)
Bloomsbury USA
The book
analyses the relationship between sport and international development
and looks at what this reveals about socio-political economy. It
addresses a gap in the literature by focusing on issues of politics,
power and culture, particularly looking at volunteer experiences,
mega-sporting events and sporting celebrity in the context of
development.
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Sport and International Development
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Roger Levermore, Aaron Beacom (Editors) (2009)
Palgrave Macmillan; First Edition
This
book presents a timely collection of theoretical debates and
case-studies relevant to the advancement of sport-in-development as a
pertinent area of research. The book argues that sport can contribute to
the development process, particularly where traditional development
approaches have difficulty in engaging with communities.
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Sport and Policy: Issues and Analysis
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Russell Hoye, Matthew Nicholson, Barrie Houlihan (2009)
A Butterworth-Heinemann Title; 1 edition
Sport and Policy critically analyses the regulatory role of the state and its impact on sport and the intersections of sport with other areas of government policy. It examines how sport is affected by a range of government policy and each chapter uses an international comparative approach in order to facilitate a broad understanding of sport and policy in a global context.
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Sport and Social Capital
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Matthew Nicholson, Russell Hoye (Editors) (2008)
Butterworth-Heinemann
Sport and Social Capital explores the ways in which sport contributes to the creation and, in some cases, diminution of social capital. Written by an internationally renowned team of authors, the text brings leading research from around the world into one comprehensively edited volume. Themes covered in the book include: education, gender, policy, community, youth sport, diversity and more.
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Sport and Social Mobility: Crossing Boundaries
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Ramón Spaaij (2011)
T & F Books US
Drawing on four case studies, the book provides a rich sociological analysis of people’s lived experiences of sport in diverse social, cultural and political contexts, ranging from sport-for-development programs in Brazil and the Netherlands to rural communities and the Somali diaspora in Australia.
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Sport for Development and Peace: Governments in Action
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Sport for Development and Peace International Working Group (2008)
SDP IWG
This publication is a companion document to the report “Harnessing the Power of Sport for Development and Peace: Recommendations to Governments” and profiles the 'Sport for Development and Peace' activities of 34 different countries from around the world. Findings presented in the national overviews highlight the unique approach that each government has taken in order to position sport as a tool for development in their countries.
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Sport, Theory and Social Problems: A Critical Introduction
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Eric Anderson (2010)
Routledge; 1 edition
Focusing on sport at non-elite levels, the book explores how inequality and social deviance are structured into the social and sporting system. It uses key social theories to address a particular social problem in sport; such as learned obedience to authority, the acceptance of pain and injury, the adoption of homophobic and sexist attitudes and the use of sport as a false mechanism for social mobility.
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Sport und internationale Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
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Karen Petry, Michael Groll, Walter Tokarski (2011)
Sportverlag Strauß; 1. Auflage
Through
contributions from several different authors, the book provides a
general overview of development policy and German development
cooperation and specifically draws attention to the use of football in
the context of development work. It also presents different practical
approaches and programmes.
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The Politics of Sports Development: Development of Sport or Development Through Sport?
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Barrie Houlihan (2002)
Routledge
This text traces
the evolution of sports development in the UK in the context of broader
shifts in sport and social policy. It explores the emergence of sports
development from the early years of public policy for sport in the 1960s
to the contemporary era.
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The Social Impact of Sport: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives)
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Ramón Spaaij (2010)
Routledge; 1 edition
This book critically examines the ways in which sports contribute to, or inhibit, social well-being, and the conditions necessary for sport to have beneficial outcomes. The themes demonstrate the diversity and versatility of the social impact sport can potentially achieve as well as the variable benefits of sport in different social contexts.
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Working with Volunteers in Sport: Theory and Practice
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Graham Cuskelly, Russell Hoye, Chris Auld (2006)
Routledge; New edition
This academic text examines the role of volunteers in sport, and links theory and research to provide clear guidelines for implementing good volunteer management practice.
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