Full Description
This book discusses major discourses of performing sports within human rights. Research findings data demonstrate that sports is an inequitable field today that has the potential to be a social change agent. There is more discussion about rights violations and what the fields of sports can do to be more rights-respecting, but the discussions are at a surface, rather than analytic level for most sports organizations.
In sports, culture and human rights, as an emerging field, it is important to develop well crafter theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical body of knowledge. There is an academic discipline of sport that showcases its interdisciplinary nature. Linking sport to the field of human rights will require theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical evolution in this new discipline. There are both organizational, environmental and individual factors associated within the nexus of sports, athletes and human rights.
This book links together sports and human rights in a systematic and analytical way. It contains chapters that discuss human rights policies in performing sports, from both organizational and interpersonal perspectives. The book focuses on the benefits of sports and the human rights and safety challenges within the operations of sports organizations and their impact on individual players.
Contents
Discourses of Human Rights in Sports.- Sport as a Basic Human Right: A Socio-philosophical Inquiry.- Athlete Rights are Human Rights: How athlete centricity led USA Gymnastics' culture change.- The other athlete: Human rights in equestrian sports.- A World of Responsible Sport.- Sexual Abuse and Human Rights in Sport: Why It Matters.- Transgender Sports Bans are a Human Rights Issue.- Human Rights and lex sportiva: Sport for all.- Sports and the lives of children: The limitless negative impact of Coercion.- Born to Ride or Exploited Children: Mongolian Child Jockeys and International Human Rights Law.- Globalisation, Human Rights, Sports, and Culture: Research findings.
