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Introduction to the Issue “Sport for Social Inclusion: Questioning Policy, Practice and Research”

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  • Reinhard Haudenhuyse

    (Sport & Society Group, Department Sport & Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

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An aspect of sport which is often highlighted is its capacity to alleviate processes of social exclusion that are experienced in different areas of life. Despite its acclaimed inclusionary nature, sport remains a site of multiple and diverse exclusionary processes (Spaaij, Magee, & Jeanes, 2014). To better understand sport's wider inclusionary outcomes, Ekholm (2013) argued that we should problematize and critically expose the underlying assumptions, distinctions, ideologies, and research positions that constitute the conceptions surrounding sport as a means for social inclusion. If such problematizing and exposing is not empirically done, sport-based social inclusion policies and programs are likely to become inadequate in the face of the exclusionary forces which such schemes seek to combat (Collins & Haudenhuyse, 2015). It is precisely the aim of this thematic issue to scrutinize such issues in relation to sport and its acclaimed potential to facilitate social inclusion and combat processes of social exclusion. The issue brings together a unique collection of international articles, written by both rising and leading scholars in the field of social sport sciences. The articles cover a wide variety of themes, theoretical perspectives, and research methods in relation to social in-/exclusion and sport.

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  • Reinhard Haudenhuyse, 2017. "Introduction to the Issue “Sport for Social Inclusion: Questioning Policy, Practice and Research”," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(2), pages 85-90.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:socinc:v:5:y:2017:i:2:p:85-90
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