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Finding the missing voices of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP): using a ‘Participatory Social Interaction Research’ methodology and anthropological perspectives within African developing countries
journal contribution
posted on 2018-04-17, 13:57 authored by Holly CollisonHolly Collison, David Marchesseault© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Whilst the SDP sector has in recent years continued to gain momentum, academic enquiry has largely continued to question its place within development agendas from the outside looking in, examining SDP at the operational and policy levels using methods that advocate the formal guises of research. Through extensive fieldwork experiences in Rwanda and Liberia, the authors propose a form of participatory research methodology for the purpose of empowerment, cultural understanding and insight beyond policy, practice and evaluation. Participatory social interaction research (PSIR) methodology is thus introduced and developed as an approach that looks beyond interventions, deconstructs SDP rhetoric, conceptualizes according to culturally specific contexts and allows narratives and qualitative data to drive theorization and academic discussion. We believe that an embodied, thorough and thoughtful PSIR methodology locates not only diversity within an ill-defined ‘African’ context, but empowers local voices to construct detailed accounts of culture within and outside of SDP.
History
School
- Loughborough University London
Published in
Sport in SocietyVolume
21Issue
2Pages
226 - 242Citation
COLLISON, H. and MARCHESSEAULT, D., 2018. Finding the missing voices of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP): using a ‘Participatory Social Interaction Research’ methodology and anthropological perspectives within African developing countries. Sport in Society, 21(2), pp. 226-242.Publisher
© Taylor and FrancisVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2016-05-05Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an Sport in Society on 05 May 2016, https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2016.1179732.ISSN
1743-0437Publisher version
Language
- en