P(L)AYING FOR THE FUTURE: THE COALESCING OF YOUTH, SPORT, AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN CHARM CITY
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description: This project explores how Sport-Based Youth Development (SBYD) has been arrived at as an ideal vehicle for youth development in contemporary Baltimore. To understand the SBYD approach, the project seeks to explore four interrelated empirically grounded sites/questions that explain why sport is expected to help develop, discipline, and prepare youth and communities for the future. Three key themes emerged from this work: 1) that youth must be problematized by different ideas, beliefs, and discourses to make them ‘amenable’ to being targets of SBYD; 2) that organizations are pushed into competing with one another rather than collaborating due to the need of the state to maintain control of how youth are incorporated into society; and 3) that various tools and techniques are used through the vehicle of sport to inculcate specific values into underserved youth and their communities. The first chapter identifies two of the key theoretical positions/approaches that inform the project: Governmentality and Articulation as theory/method. The second chapter provides an overview of how scholars have examined the phenomenon of Sport for Development and Peace as a historical, methodological, and empirical site. The third chapter identifies the methods and methodologies that underpin the project. The fourth chapter provides a brief reflexive overview of how I arrived in Baltimore to conduct the project. The fifth chapter seeks to (explore) how Baltimore’s underserved citizens have been positioned as targets of SBYD as conceived of by politicians, providers, public servants, and citizens of the city, state, and nation. The project found that SBYD in Baltimore is a product of specific policies, processes, decisions, ideologies, and discourses that conspire to create a specific understanding of youth and communities as ripe for and requiring intervention through sport and other recreational pursuits to reform their behavior and orientation towards neoliberal social values that has e…
abstract: This project explores how Sport-Based Youth Development (SBYD) has been arrived at as an ideal vehicle for youth development in contemporary Baltimore. To understand the SBYD approach, the project seeks to explore four interrelated empirically grounded sites/questions that explain why sport is expected to help develop, discipline, and prepare youth and communities for the future. Three key themes emerged from this work: 1) that youth must be problematized by different ideas, beliefs, and discourses to make them ‘amenable’ to being targets of SBYD; 2) that organizations are pushed into competing with one another rather than collaborating due to the need of the state to maintain control of how youth are incorporated into society; and 3) that various tools and techniques are used through the vehicle of sport to inculcate specific values into underserved youth and their communities. The first chapter identifies two of the key theoretical positions/approaches that inform the project: Governmentality and Articulation as theory/method. The second chapter provides an overview of how scholars have examined the phenomenon of Sport for Development and Peace as a historical, methodological, and empirical site. The third chapter identifies the methods and methodologies that underpin the project. The fourth chapter provides a brief reflexive overview of how I arrived in Baltimore to conduct the project. The fifth chapter seeks to (explore) how Baltimore’s underserved citizens have been positioned as targets of SBYD as conceived of by politicians, providers, public servants, and citizens of the city, state, and nation. The project found that SBYD in Baltimore is a product of specific policies, processes, decisions, ideologies, and discourses that conspire to create a specific understanding of youth and communities as ripe for and requiring intervention through sport and other recreational pursuits to reform their behavior and orientation towards neoliberal social values that has e…
author: Stone, Eric Alexander
language: en
date published: 2024
date modified: 2026-07-24T03:02:15Z
provider: University of Maryland
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Maryland

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value: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/33762

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value: 10.13016/wspn-4tek