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4 Young people in Zambia: their lives and social contexts This chapter marks a transition into the second half of the book, as we move from consideration of the establishment and organization of SfD to begin to focus on the people and communities with which SfD aims to work. Across the next three chapters the book aims to provide a detailed, empirically informed account of local Zambian contexts in which SfD is
2 Sport, development and the political-economic context of Zambia This chapter examines how the wider political and economic context in Zambia has been influential in shaping the historical governance of sport and the expansion of the SfD ‘movement’ in the country. As the previous chapter has shown, within the academic literature most attention has been paid to the global expansion of SfD; a further, smaller body of
It is rumoured that Zambian anticolonial activist Munukayumbwa Sipalo (1929–94) was at Bandung – that is to say, that he attended the famous Asian-African Conference of statesmen in the Indonesian city in 1955. 1 The claim is not surprising: Bandung’s vast symbolic capital has made it the object of a politics of citation ever since, not least in accounts of postcolonial nationhood. 2 Whether Sipalo was there is another question. I have not found archival sources to place him in Indonesia, and it is clear he was
. A multi-country study in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and Senegal identified how child marriage is influenced by intersections between poverty, lack of educational opportunities and norms that discriminate against girls ( Petroni et al. , 2017 ). In many contexts, marriage is linked to the onset of puberty ( Lal, 2015 ). Lower educational attainment may be a risk factor as well as a consequence of child marriage ( Stark, 2018 ). Child marriage may occur more among communities facing poverty ( Efevbera et al., 2019 ; Stark, 2018 ; UNICEF, 2014 ), communities living
Drawing on nearly a decade of wide-ranging, multidisciplinary research undertaken with young people and adults living and working in urban communities in Zambia, this jointly-authored book extends existing understandings of the use of sport to contribute to global development agendas has burgeoned over the last two decades. The book’s locally-centred and contextualized analysis represents an important departure from both the internationalist and evaluation-orientated research that has predominated in global sport for development. Offering wide-ranging historical, political, economic and social contextualization, it examines how a key period in the expansion of the sport for development sector unfolded in Zambia; considers the significance of varying degrees of integration and partnership practices between sport for development and development agencies at different levels; and outlines approaches to the provision of sport for development activities in various communities. Detailed examination of the lives, experiences and responses of young people involved in these activities, drawn from their own accounts, is a key feature of the book. Concluding reflections identify possibilities for enhancing understanding and improving research and evidence through methodologies which ‘localise global sport for development’. The book’s unique approach and content will be highly relevant to academic researchers and students studying sport and development across many different contexts.
3 Sport as a development partner: international, national and community integration This chapter considers how partnerships and partnership working, in the broadest sense of these terms, are enacted, structured and influential in relation to SfD in Zambia. The significance of partnerships emerged early in our involvement in Zambia, where it soon became apparent that much of the SfD work being undertaken in the country was
In 2014, I attended a meeting in Lusaka organised by the ILO to promote its work on domestic worker rights in Zambia. The meeting was held at an expensive chain hotel on the Great East Road in the northern part of the city, near to several affluent suburbs and the University of Zambia. The meeting included attendees from the ILO’s Lusaka office, the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS), the
Introduction This book emerges from the authors’ shared experiences of conducting research into ‘sport for development’ in Zambia since 2006. The period during which we have been carrying out this work has been one of burgeoning growth in the use of sport to foster social change, during which sport for development (hereafter, SfD) has emerged as a ‘new social movement’ (Kidd, 2008 ) operating on a truly global scale. Like many
In 1960 the white population of the Central African Federation (CAF) was estimated at 308,300: 76,000 of these ‘white settlers’ lived in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia); 223,000 lived in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe); and 9,300 lived in Nyasaland (now Malawi). 1 At Independence (29 October 1964) the settlers had to decide where their future lay. Would they stay on, move elsewhere in
Conclusions: localizing global sport for development In this chapter we draw together the main themes which have emerged from our research in Zambia, and reflect critically on how they may contribute to the overall aspiration for this book: to ‘localize’ global SfD. We are equally concerned with the knowledge and understanding that our empirical work may offer and with the research processes that have underpinned it. We first consider