ABSTRACT
This chapter examines different ways in which sport has contributed to bringing about social change. It is crucial that workers in the field do not lose sight of the many forms of intervention that have contributed to sport's role in the world today. Legislation, declarations of policy, political party manifestos and single- and multilateral-issue campaigns about sport have all had an impact and are continually in state of flux. The chapter explores the comprehensive nature of capitalist triumph in sport by drawing attention to interventions that effectively challenged the values of global sport. Any number of entry and exit points may be chosen as a basis for substantiating the transformative capacity of sport. Forms of action are classified along the continuum from reformism to radicalism or from ideological to non-ideological, or from issue-orientated to more collective forms of action. Change may also have intended and unintended outcomes and the parameters of sport for social change are both geopolitical and socio-economic.
