ABSTRACT
The interaction between sport, political activism and social justice has been one of the emerging sport-and politics-related relationships in recent years. This part discusses this relationship by introducing a number of overlapping topics ranging from sport and peace, sexuality and gender, “race”, indigenous culture and knowledge, the environment, sustainability, countercultural sport and the so-called Big Society’s role in relation to sport. The rst three chapters combine the topics of sexuality, gender and sport for development and peace. Naish focuses on sport for development and peace with specic attention paid to alignment, administration and power, while Chawansky and Kipnis extend the discussion by situating Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) within a gender politics context. These two chapters are separated by Jarvis’s discussion on the politics of sexuality and sport. This section is completed by the three nal chapters that each consider, in contrasting ways, grassroots involvement in sport. Totten looks at supporter/fan activism. In contrast, Gilchrist focuses on activist players reclaiming civic space, while Reid shifts the discussion away from players and fans to discuss less autonomous, civic activism in relation to the British neo-liberal concept of “the Big Society”.
