Beschreibung:
This book critically engages with the role sporting organisations play in the maintenance and development of communities in their variety of forms.
1. Sport and communities: an introduction 2. Sport, community involvement and social support 3. How do youth sports facilitate the creation of parental social ties? 4. Working together through sport? Local authority provision for ethnic minorities in the UK 5. What does commitment mean to volunteers in youth sport organizations? 6. The mobilizing effects and health benefits of proximity sport facilities: urban andvenvironmental analysis of the Bleu, Blanc, Bouge project and Montreal North's outdoor rink 7. Sport and community integration in Northern Ireland 8. Women's toplessness on the Red Mile, Calgary, May - June 2004 9. Volunteer roles, involvement and commitment in voluntary sport organizations: evidence of core and peripheral volunteers 10. Epilogue: the not-so-hidden complexity of the sport-community connection