Sport Development and Sport for Development in the Caribbean offers a unique focus on the Caribbean context to examine issues related to sport development and sport for development across a range of Caribbean countries that include Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, and Trinidad and Tobago.
The emergence of sport for development as a developmental strategy led by the United Nations and the use of sport by companies around the world as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility strategies have brought to the fore its developmental utility. Within this broader global context, Sport Development and Sport for Development in the Caribbean offers a unique focus on the Caribbean context to examine issues related to sport development and sport for development across a range of Caribbean countries that include Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Building on a relatively small, emerging body of work on the Caribbean context, the chapters showcase how this region has been an important part of the processes of globalization, commercialization and professionalization that have expressed themselves in and through sport. Touching on a range of sports which have formed part of Caribbean sport history and culture, including cricket, athletics, baseball and soccer, authors examine a broad array of issues in Caribbean sport that have come to define the contemporary scope of sport sociology. Topics covered are globalization, commercialization, professionalization, nationalism, gender, race, national identity, nationalism, athletic migration and disability.
Introduction Sport Development and Sport for Development in the
Caribbean: A Sociology of Emerging Trends; Roy McCree
Section I. Development of Sport
Chapter
1. A Multi-Level Analysis of 20th Century West Indian Cricket as
Black Sporting Resistance; Joseph N. Cooper
Chapter
2. Haitian Isolation: Baseballs Identity Crisis in the Dominican
Republic; Patrick Gentile
Chapter
3. Baseball: A Cultural Sport Practice and National Heritage in Cuba;
Neris Rodrķguez-Matos, Margarita Victoria Hernįndez Garrido, and Jorge Luis
Herrera Ochoa
Chapter
4. Cuban Women in Sport: A Soft Power Asset of the Socialist
Revolution; Jacqueline Laguardia Martinez
Chapter
5. From a Trickle to a Throng: Transatlantic Soccer Migration from
Trinidad and Tobago, 1933-2019; Roy McCree
Chapter
6. A Culture of Care: Jamaican Female College Athletes and Yossos
Cultural Wealth Model; Khalilah Doss
Chapter
7. Recruitment and Retention Issues of Female Athletes: Triathletes
in Trinidad and Tobago; Anand Rampersad
Chapter
8. Indigenous Sports in the French Caribbean: Gender, the Yoles
Rondes and Boat Racing in Martinique; Hélčne Zamor
Section II. Sport for Development
Chapter
9. Esports and Sport for Development in the Caribbean; Russell
Stockard
Chapter
10. Sport for Development in Haiti and the Contribution of Haitian
Athletes to the World of Football; Eustache Placide
Chapter
11. Where Bodies Roar: The Transformative Impact of Football on
Earthquake Survivors with Physical Disabilities in Haiti; Kapriskie Seide and
Gayle Kaufman
Chapter
12. Boxing Beyond the Ring: A Holistic Program for Women in Trinidad
and Tobago; Ria Ramnarine, Kalyn McDonough, and Matthew J. Robinson
Roy McCree is a sociologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Trinidad and Tobago Campus. He is a former President of the Caribbean Sociological Association (CASA) (2021-2023). His broad research interests cover sport, positive youth development, community development, public-private partnerships and monitoring and evaluation.
