Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Sport for Development and Peace

This book examines the ways in which sport for development and peace (SDP) offers an opportunity for entrepreneurship to take place through and within sport, and how innovation in the context of SDP contributes to social and economic value for underrepresented and marginalised groups and individuals.

Mitchell McSweeney is Assistant Professor of Sport Management in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA. His research focuses on social entrepreneurship, innovation, sport for development and peace (SDP), and livelihoods, and he often utilizes postcolonial theory, institutional theory, and diaspora to critically investigate these areas. He has worked with various SDP organizations in Uganda, Canada, India, Eswatini, and a number of international organizations. Per G. Svensson is Associate Professor in Sport Management within the School of Kinesiology at Louisiana State University, USA. His research examines organizational capacity and innovation in Sport for Development and Peace and explores the challenges of operating community-based SDP organizations within broader social, political, historical, and economic contexts. Dr. Svensson is also a Research Fellow with the North American Society for Sport Management and Co-Editor for the Journal of Sport for Development. Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst is a York Research Chair (Tier 2) in Sport, Gender & Development and Digital Participatory Research, and Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science at York University, Canada. Her research focuses on gender issues in/through sport for development and peace (SDP), gender-based violence prevention and sexual and reproductive health rights promotion, bicycle justice, gender and mobility studies, cultural studies of 'girlhood', postcolonial and decolonial feminist theory, global governance, international relations and corporate social responsibility. Parissa Safai is Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science in the Faculty of Health at York University, Canada. Her research interests focus on the critical study of sport at the intersection of risk, health and healthcare. This includes research on sports' "culture of risk", the development and social organization of sport and exercise medicine, as well as the social determinants of athletes' health. Her research and teaching interests also centre on sport and social inequality with a focus on the impact of gender, socio-economic, and ethnocultural inequities on accessible physical activity for all. She is also Special Advisor to the President for Academic Continuity Planning and COVID-19 Response, as well as General Secretary to the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA).

Part I: Theories and Histories of Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Sport for Development and Peace, 1. Introduction: Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Sport for Development and Peace, 2. Social Entrepreneurship and Sport for Development and Peace, 3. Decolonizing Sport for Development, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, 4. Institutional Entrepreneurship in Sport for Development and Peace, 5. Generating Human-Centered Social Innovation in Sport-for-Development with Design Thinking, Part II: Examples from the Sport for Development and Peace Ground, 6. The Role of the Playlab in the Creation of Open-Source Solutions: PLAY International, 7. A Social Enterprise Football Club: Kick4Life, 8. Championing Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace: Women Win, Naz, and Moving the Goalposts, 9. Rethinking Community Activation: Waves for Change, 10. Responding to Environmental Challenges in Kenya through Social Entrepreneurship: Sadili Sports Academy, Part III: The Possibilities and Constraints of Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Sport for Development and Peace, 11. Hybrid Organizational Forms in Sport for Development and Peace, 12. Intraorganizational Factors Associated with Enabling and Sustaining Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace, 13. Exploring the Social and Political Tensions of Entrepreneurship in Vietnamese Sport for Development, 14. Refugees, Social Entrepreneurship, and Sport for Development and Peace, Part IV: Future Directions? Musings on What Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Could Look Like in Post-Pandemic Sport for Development and Peace, 15. Sport for Development and Peace Funding in a Post-Pandemic World, 16. Innovative Approaches to Menstrual Health and Sport for Development: Menstrual Matters, 17. Esport in the Sport for Development and Peace Sector: Innovation and Spheres of Change, 18. Repositioning Sport as an Innovation within National Policy, 19. Concluding Thoughts: Opportunities and Tensions of Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Sport for Development and Peace