to Amartya Sen’s theoretical frame and focuses on the experience of The Homeless World Cup Foundation, and Street Soccer Scotland, one of its partner organisations, and on their actions for… Click to show full abstract
to Amartya Sen’s theoretical frame and focuses on the experience of The Homeless World Cup Foundation, and Street Soccer Scotland, one of its partner organisations, and on their actions for social integration and development of capability. The last chapter analyses the role of sports protest under Donald Trump’s presidential administration, proposing two examples. The first one, highly visible, is Colin Kaepernick’s well-known case, and his struggle against racism. The second one, less recognised, is New England Patriot’s members’ refusal to meet the president and their fight against sexism. This book, which is addressed to a wide range of readers (undergraduate, postgraduate, researchers, practitioners, the general public), has several interesting aspects. Among these, it addresses the relationship between physical activity (sport, physical education) and social justice through both microscopic (individual experience, psychological dimension, educational relationship) and macroscopic (social, societal, cultural, and religious) frames. Furthermore, it proposes a strong interdisciplinary dimension, crucial to address the complexity of the issues analysed (capability, social justice, sport, racism, etc.). We come to the (few) weaknesses of this book: first, it tries to propose potential strategies for social justice action, without entering a pragmatic dimension, often limiting itself to proposing some examples, analysing them based on some specific theoretical perspective, and then describing their positive effects. Furthermore, none of the chapters focuses on the health dimension, which however is strongly linked to each of the issues analysed, especially that of social justice. But these are certainly weaknesses that do not affect the overall quality and originality of this oneof-a-kind book, which I warmly recommend.
               
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