Pub Date : 2022-10-03DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2022.2127835
Kevin Volf, Liam Kelly, Enrique García Bengoechea, Bláthín Casey, Peter Gelius, Sven Messing, Sarah Forberger, Jeroen Lakerveld, Nicolette R Den Braver, Joanna Zukowska, Catherine Woods
ABSTRACT
Participation in sport contributes to increased physical activity (PA) levels. Increasing PA is a public health concern due to its recognised impact on health outcomes. International policy actors such as the Council of Europe, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Society for Physical Activity and Health (ISPAH) have recommended that ‘sport for all’ is promoted both for public health and as a basic right. This review aims to evaluate sport related policies aimed at maximising the opportunity to participate in PA and sporting activity. Six electronic databases were systematically searched for quantitative, qualitative and review studies investigating how public sport policy affects PA outcomes. The scientific literature was screened according to predetermined eligibility criteria. Following study selection and data extraction, the quality was assessed using modified versions of existing quality assessment tools. Results were synthesised and the context in which policy actions occurred analysed using the Context and Implementation of Complex Interventions (CICI) framework. Database searches identified 3705 unique articles. A total of 93 full-text articles were assessed, with 22 meeting our inclusion criteria. Seven unique ‘policy actions’ were identified and were categorised into the ‘policy areas’ Facilities, Financial, Collaboration and Exhortation. Policy actions to promote PA and sport participation have demonstrated qualified success but there is limited evidence of success in engaging hard to reach groups. Therefore, policymakers utilising sport to increase PA should treat it as a complementary intervention alongside other policy actions based on a systems perspective.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2022.2137555
Carmen A. Horvat, Carolynne Mason
ABSTRACT The profile provides an overview of the contemporary sport policy system in the small, and relatively young, state of Slovenia. The paper begins by outlining some of the specific characteristics of Slovenia which provide important contextual understanding. A brief overview of the historical development of sport in Slovenia after gaining independence in 1991 is also included. Next, a detailed description of the contemporary structure of the sport policy system in Slovenia is provided, including relevant organisational and financial structures. The paper then discusses some of the specificities of the Slovene context that have also influenced the contemporary sport policy system including characteristics of scale, culture, and the natural environment. Finally, the paper concludes by highlighting the contextual factors that may be relevant to the future of the sport policy system in Slovenia.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2022.2131045
J. Grix, Daniel Bloyce, Kirstin Hallman, Popi Sotiriadou
There are certain times when Journals take stock of where they are, where they have come from and how they hope to develop. Such thought pieces may fall on an anniversary, the turn of the millennium or the introduction of a new Editorial Team. This Editorial Brief is slightly different, in so far as it marks a rejuvenation of our Editorial Board. However, it is also a response to the unprecedented times we are living through and offers some reflections on how we, as social science scholars, are reacting to, and making sense of, the seismic changes in society that are impacting all facets of sport. First, we’d like to thank all those who have served on our Editorial Board in recent years. We have been lucky to be able to draw on the collective wisdom of our Board as IJSPP has grown and developed (the journal has around 170, 000 downloads and views per annum). It is common practice to revamp the Editorial Board from time to time and we have attempted to re-shape our Board to be more representative in terms of both the geographical areas and expertise covered, but also to be more diverse. A stock-take of our journal is also necessary in tumultuous times and we offer some reflections on what this means for the study of sport policy and politics in a changing global environment. The wider political backdrop to this critical juncture is the re-shaping of the so-called liberal world order, underpinned as it is by Western norms and values and upheld by global institutions, such as the World Trade Organisation, United Nations and the North Atlantic Trade Agreement. The restructuring of this institutional architecture manifests itself in the following in many ways: The growing strength of the ‘Global South’ and the dissemination, manipulation and distorting of ideas and ideology through digital data, social media and new technology. Alongside these developments, the world has witnessed the rapid rise of populist politics across a wide geo-political area. The most recent rise of populist politics can be linked to the ‘right’ or ‘radical right’ and can combine populism with nativism and authoritarianism. This backdrop matters for international sport policy and politics more broadly, as all policy is made within changing political priorities and environments. The following highlights some of the recent trends in articles published in IJSPP and some of the areas articles of the future may focus on.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2022.2137554
C. Gouveia
ABSTRACT The instrumental impact of sport has experienced an increasing complexity, especially in its relations between society and culture, economy, and politics. The study focused on the Macao Lusophony Games, an intercultural sports event that aims to strengthen ties with Portuguese-speaking countries, or Lusophony. Based on a literature review in interrelated fields such as cultural heritage, language, legacy effects, and soft power, a qualitative approach was undertaken, informed by empirical material from various textual sources. The evidence shows that the Games created ties based on linguistic and cultural reciprocity, expressed as a soft power resource as well as Macao’s realignment within the Lusophone world, as an international political strategy that benefits China’s economic development.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2022.2127836
Bridgette M. Desjardins, Jean Ketterling, T. Hepburn
ABSTRACT Ongoing efforts to exclude trans people from the public sphere in the United States include the proposal – and, often, passing – of Bills seeking to exclude trans people from sport. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, we analyse four such Bills. We argue that, in seeking to regulate the participation of trans students in school athletics, legislatures are producing essentialist gendered subjects. Sporting spaces are amenable to such legislation because they are strongholds for simplistic, binary conceptualisations of sex and gender. Further, by operationalising an instrumental view of sport – wherein winning and thus achieving material reward motivates participation – legislatures can construct trans girls as threats to cisgender girls’ future success and mobilise affect and emotion to both produce subjects and to justify transphobic discrimination. This paper contributes to literature on the outcomes of trans-exclusionary regulations by exploring the rhetorical work done by such regulations and what regulation and discipline these strategies make possible.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2022.2137556
S. Emmanuel, Yanli Li
ABSTRACT Explicitly tracing the current sport system structure, status and policy framework, this article is set out to review and provide a broad understanding of Uganda’s sports policies. It examines historical overview, government involvement, administrative setup and the wider sport policy setting including the funding mechanisms, elite sport participation and performance, legal framework, key trends, and emerging sport policy issues. The article offers an up-to-date overview of Uganda’s sport policy landscape largely since it gained its independence from the colonial rulers in 1962. However much Uganda is regarded as one of the African sports powerhouses, relatively little research has been published on both its earlier and contemporary sport policies, and even less on the implementation, administration, management and performance of elite sport. It argues that the main ambitions and priorities of the Ugandan government should not only be concentrated on attaining mass sports participation, elite sport success, national identity, economic transformation and a healthy and active population but rather on striking a balance between them. The article delineates the starting point for improving sports development through reshaping Uganda’s sport policy.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-28DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2022.2127837
Marjukka Mikkonen, M. Korsberg, K. Lehtonen, J. Stenvall
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to provide a description and create an understanding of public sport policy, the key actors within the sports system, and the political sphere in Finnish sport. The development of sport policy in Finland has been characterised by a relatively long-lasting, polarised, and highly politicised sports sector and a series of structural reforms. The contemporary sports system in Finland represents a mixed model, in which the state has a strong role in directing sport policy (especially through resource steering), while the role of sports organisations is implementation. Further, municipalities play a central role in creating conditions for sport and physical activity, and all sport policy actors have high autonomy in their operations. In particular, the population’s increasing physical inactivity and lack of elite sport success in Finland have driven the central government to seek new solutions, such as centralisation, a cross-administrative approach, and evidence-informed policy-making practices. Sport policy is also impacted by international trends and agreements, such as sustainable development, in which Finland’s ambitious goals affect the sports sector. In the future, the unclear roles of different actors and a lack of leadership could cause further challenges to the adoption of effective sport policies.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-27DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2022.2127838
J. Clarke, Sarthak Mondal
ABSTRACT India boasts a rich sporting heritage dating back thousands of years. Despite its rich sporing culture, India only began developing its own sporting ecosystem in 1954 with the creation of the All-India Council of Sports (AICS), shortly after gaining independence from the United Kingdom in 1947. However, in the seven decades that have passed, the systematisation and development of sport of India has been relatively slow and internationally India have had limited success on the elite stage. The aim of this profile is to provide a detailed insight into the vast sporting ecosystem in India by exploring the policies, enablers, and barriers in relation to sport participation, elite sport, and the use of sport across the nation to tackle non-sporting objectives. Following an introduction highlighting the key demographics and sporting culture in India, the profile moves onto outline the state led provision of sport in India, including how sport is organised and funded. Next, the significance of the commercial sport sector in India is highlighted, followed by a section detailing the growth of the not-for-profit sector. Finally, the profile highlights the current public policy priorities and challenges, which include elite sport success, tackling inactivity and poor governance in sport before offering some concluding observations.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-29DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2022.2117839
Julie E. Brice, A. Grainger, Adam S. Beissel, Verity Postlethwaite
ABSTRACT A common trend among hosts of women’s international sporting events is to tout the opportunity to positively impact women’s and girls’ sporting and physical activity practices. Yet, many scholars have shown that such ‘trickle down’ effects from the event to society are seldom realised. Nonetheless, organisers continue in their attempts to ‘leverage’ large-scale sporting events to produce a range of positive impacts. Here, we use the extraordinary context of Aotearoa New Zealand hosting the Women’s Cricket, Rugby, and Football World Cups in 2022 and 2023 to consider the potential prospects, pitfalls, and challenges involved in attempting to leverage such events to improve societal and sporting opportunities for women and girls. More specifically, we explore the proposed leveraging strategies for the tournaments and examine how such initiatives align with the New Zealand Government’s ‘Strategy for Women and Girls in Sport and Active Recreation’ (WGS). Drawing upon strategy, planning and policy documents, press releases, and media coverage, we adopt a critical discourse analysis approach to understand how current strategies of organisers, national sports organisations, and governing bodies align with the three main ‘pillars’ of the WGS (leadership, participation, and visibility). Through our analysis we present empirical and theoretical challenges (and opportunities) faced by the tournament stakeholders. We end with a critical analysis of the challenges and possibilities hosting three world cups can have on enacting meaningful and important change for women and girls’ sport in Aotearoa.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-18DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2022.2112260
T. M. Blomqvist
ABSTRACT This study explores the role of the Swedish Sports Confederation (SSC) in its pursuit of supporting sports in socioeconomically deprived areas, specifically targeting ethnic minorities. This is no easy task, seeing as the SSC does so through ‘steering’ voluntary sport clubs towards social policy goals. Utilising multiple qualitative sources from 35 SSC representatives, this study examines the practices of the SSC according to Bronfenbrenner’s Process-Person-Context-Time approach. The results show that the SSC foreground their practices by initiating inter-sectoral collaborations to ensure sustainable funding to clubs and that the ‘principle of closeness’ permeates the practices; every link in the process is locally embedded and builds upon the strength of the clubs. The sport club consultant, acting as the direct link between exo-level directives and the clubs’ micro-setting becomes a key factor whose individual characteristics become a decisive factor. In conclusion, the SSC works in a complex collaborative sphere in which specific individuals become central in reaching the clubs. Importantly, the SSC adopts a bottom-up approach, recognising the strength and resourcefulness of the locals. The results have implications for federations that work under the governance of neoliberal result-oriented regimes – if sport clubs should carry out this work, the federations need to understand how they must accommodate and assist these sport clubs adequately.
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