ABSTRACT
This investigation builds upon feminist postcolonial and related critical development scholarship to contextualise the mobilisation of Title IX – the 1972 US legal mandate requiring equity within educational settings including sports – within selected sport for development discourses promoted by the US State Department. This analysis of the State Department’s ‘Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports’ initiative draws upon feminist cultural studies and postcolonial sensibilities to interrogate the unique sporting narratives connected to Title IX and particular political contexts that continue to produce and support neoliberalism as well as securitised interests and insecurities across the globe.
