Human Rights and Events, Leisure and Sport

ISBN-13: 9781138392922 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 122 str.

Jayne Caudwell; Darragh McGee

Opis

This edited book examines the promotion and protection of human rights in events, leisure and sport, as well as the emancipatory potential that is mobilised through social justice movements, activism and civil resistance in a neoliberal era. This book was originally published as a special issue of Leisure Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction - From promotion to protection: human rights and events, leisure and sport 1. Understanding the denial of abuses of human rights connected to sports mega-events 2. Politics at play: locating human rights, refugees and grassroots humanitarianism in the Calais Jungle 3. The challenge of articulating human rights at an LGBT ‘mega-event’: a personal reflection on Sao Paulo Pride 2017 4. Configuring human rights at EuroPride 2015 5. Rethinking human rights: the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, LGBT protections and the limits of cosmopolitanism 6. Human rights abuses at the Rio 2016 Olympics: activism and the media 7. The right to adequate housing: evictions of the homeless and the elderly caused by the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 8. Mega-sporting events and children’s rights and interests – towards a better future 9. Exploring the economic, social and cultural rights of youth leaders working in Sport for Development initiatives at grassroots level in South Africa