ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a dialogue on how physical cultural studies (PCS) and sport for development and peace (SDP) might better inform one another, while more deeply interrogating the complexities of social change in different contexts. It describes a partnership between a cricket club and an international corporation that are planning to develop cricket communities throughout India. The chapter demonstrates how a more open and active engagement with physical practices and the body across a multitude of spaces can challenge assumptions relating to the boundaries of social change and development. It also describes how participants in an SDP programme in Eastern Uganda, which was designed to promote sexual and reproductive health, engaged in physical practices in their daily lives that they described as acts of resistance. The chapter explains how community development practices in non-sport spaces in the Global North broadened physical cultural practices in a low-income community.
