Introduction

In chapter 1, we present the aim and outline of the book. In this book, we explore the emergence, arrangement and performance of activities where sport is used as an instrument to respond to societal challenges. This is explored by analysing the governmental rationality of Midnight Football, a sport-based intervention carried out in the urban peripheries in Sweden. In the introducing chapter, we present the historical and political context of the book, and on the basis of an account of the previous literature, we outline how the governmental rationality of the instrumentality of sport can be explored and how it is constitutive of social policy transformations.