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Sport for Development in Brazil: Gendered Perspective
Soares Moura, Eva ; Numerato, Dino (advisor) ; Hacker, Hanna (referee) ; Knoppers, Annelies (referee)
The sport for development and peace (SDP) sector has become a fast-evolving field which has received significant academic and public attention. Given the continued commitment to gender equality in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, sport has been positioned as a vessel for women's empowerment, a term which continues to be the object of much academic debate and dispute. Drawing on feminist theories of development and empowerment, the purpose of this thesis is to explore (a) how young people engage in the development project and (b) to critically examine the potential of such programmes in advancing transformation in gender relations and in offering new opportunities for challenging gender stereotypes inside and outside of sport. This thesis draws upon eleven months of ethnographic research undertaken between 2017 and 2018 in two organizations in São Paulo, Brazil, which use sport-mainly football-to empower women and achieve broader societal objectives within low-income communities. I conducted participant observations and fifty semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, managers, and educators as well as the participants of the projects and their parents. The findings of this research suggest that there is ambiguity regarding the role of sport-for-development (SFD) programmes in...
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The influence of the sports club on the development of the region
FIKTUSOVÁ, Martina
The diploma thesis deals with the influence of sports clubs on the development of the region - South Bohemian Region. The task of the work is to determine and analyze the effects of sports activities on the development of the region and to follow up the measures leading to the improvement of the current state. The theoretical part of the diploma thesis defines the basic concepts of regional development, such as region, regional development or regional policy. Furthermore, the theoretical part deals with the field of sport, including its relation to the development of the region. The practical part examines the factors and areas in which sports clubs can contribute to regional development. The work also examines the statistics of sport, the development of the membership base and the number of sports clubs. Subsequently, the economic impacts of sports clubs on the region are evaluated by quantitative analysis. One output of this work is the identification of possible impacts of sport on regional development and their subsequent quantitative analysis. Another output is the evaluation of the survey of sports clubs in the South Bohemian region in terms of the current status of sports clubs in individual size groups of municipalities. The conclusion of the practical part includes an analysis of the impact analysis and the research of the sports clubs.
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