ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the notion of communitarianism and the extent to which discussions of sport, culture and society have been inclusive or exclusive of other sporting communities. This account of sport and the community cannot be divorced from other chapters on sport, social capital and civil society, or sport, nationalism and internationalism. The chapter argues that it is unrealistic to expect sport to be totally responsible for sustaining a sense of community or citizenship, or even for reinforcing notions of social capital. The place of sport within both imagined and active senses of other communities can make a valuable contribution. The chapter considers the strengths and weaknesses of post-colonialism as an idea that draws attention to the dynamics of sport in other communities. The right of all people to have access to sport, to participate in sport and to be represented through sport needs to be fought for.
