List of figures |
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List of tables |
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Author's preface and acknowledgements |
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Glossary |
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1 Introduction |
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Constraints on playing sport |
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Benefits claimed for playing sport |
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4 | (2) |
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6 | (4) |
2 From absolute poverty to social exclusion |
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From absolute and relative poverty to social exclusion |
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10 | (5) |
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Measuring poverty and social exclusion |
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15 | (5) |
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The geography of exclusion |
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20 | (3) |
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Sport social class and exclusion |
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23 | (2) |
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Exclusion, sport and citizenship |
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25 | (6) |
3 Poverty: the core of exclusion |
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Introduction: why we know so little about the economic gradient in sport and leisure |
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31 | (1) |
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The context of anti-poverty policies and leisure |
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32 | (2) |
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Sport and poverty, and prices |
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34 | (4) |
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Local authority anti-poverty strategies and leisure cards/passports |
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38 | (6) |
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Case Study 1: leisure cards in Leicester and Oxford |
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44 | (5) |
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Case Study 2: gym for free/be active, Birmingham |
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49 | (5) |
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54 | (2) |
4 Exclusion, education and young people's sport |
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56 | (34) |
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Introduction: children and poverty |
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56 | (2) |
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The early years: home, play and primary schooling |
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58 | (4) |
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Developing sports interests: secondary schools |
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62 | (6) |
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Dropping out or sustaining interest? Sports clubs and out-of-school schemes |
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68 | (4) |
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Case study 3: the rise (and premature demise) of the PE, School Sport, Club Links/Young People's Strategy |
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72 | (4) |
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Developing commitments: sports performance and excellence |
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76 | (3) |
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Case study 4: sport for secondary schoolchildren: go for gold and Champion Coaching in Nottinghamshire |
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79 | (8) |
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87 | (3) |
5 Gender, sport and social exclusion |
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90 | (17) |
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TESS KAY Introduction: sport and the gendered experience of social exclusion |
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90 | (1) |
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Female experiences of poverty and social exclusion |
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91 | (3) |
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Girls, women, sport and social exclusion |
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94 | (3) |
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Girls' and women's empowerment through sport |
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97 | (2) |
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Girls' and women's inclusion in and through sport |
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99 | (6) |
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105 | (2) |
6 Exclusion and older people in sport |
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107 | (11) |
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Introduction: trends in aging and social exclusion |
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107 | (4) |
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111 | (5) |
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116 | (2) |
7 Social exclusion and sport in a multicultural society |
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118 | (21) |
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Introduction: from race to ethnicity, from segregation to cohesion |
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118 | (3) |
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Ethnicity, disadvantage, exclusion and cohesion |
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121 | (6) |
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Multi-cultural participation in sport |
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127 | (5) |
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Sport, ethnicity and exclusion |
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132 | (2) |
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134 | (2) |
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136 | (3) |
8 Sport and exclusion by disability |
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139 | (21) |
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Introduction: attitudes, policies and structures regarding disability and sport |
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139 | (5) |
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Disability, poverty and social exclusion |
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144 | (1) |
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Disability, mental illness, learning difficulties and sport |
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145 | (8) |
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Case study 5: disability and sport and leisure in Leicester |
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153 | (5) |
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158 | (2) |
9 Sport and youth delinquency and crime |
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160 | (33) |
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Introduction: youth and crime - the facts |
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160 | (6) |
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Causes and triggers of youth delinquency, and interventions |
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166 | (4) |
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The growing interest in sport as an intervention in youth delinquency |
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170 | (2) |
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Case study 6: intervening to make a difference - Street Sport, Stoke as a primary intervention and Solent Sports Counselling as a tertiary one |
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172 | (14) |
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Case Study 7: Positive Futures (PF) |
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186 | (2) |
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Midnight basketball and other recent schemes |
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188 | (2) |
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190 | (3) |
10 Rural and urban perspectives on exclusion from sport |
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193 | (19) |
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Rural England - idyll or exclusion? |
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193 | (2) |
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Sport and leisure services and participation |
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195 | (7) |
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Sport and exclusion in urban England |
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202 | (10) |
11 Policy implementation: partnerships, stronger citizenship and social capital through sport? |
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212 | (22) |
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Implementing inclusion policies and programmes |
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212 | (12) |
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The Third Way and social capital in the form of sports clubs |
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224 | (6) |
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Case study 8: Street Games |
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230 | (3) |
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233 | (1) |
12 Conclusions |
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234 | (24) |
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235 | (4) |
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Emerging areas - sport and sexuality, sport for asylum seekers and refugees and sport and religion |
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239 | (4) |
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Conclusion: equity, non-participation and exclusion |
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243 | (10) |
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Postlude: after the coalition, a deluge? |
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253 | (5) |
References |
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258 | (43) |
Author index |
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301 | (12) |
Subject index |
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