
Discourses of Globalisation, Human Rights and Sports
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In sports, culture and human rights, as an emerging field, it is important to develop well crafter theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical body of knowledge. There is an academic discipline of sport that showcases its interdisciplinary nature. Linking sport to the field of human rights will require theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical evolution in this new discipline. There are both organizational, environmental and individual factors associated within the nexus of sports, athletes and human rights.
This book links together sports and human rights in a systematic and analytical way. It contains chapters that discuss human rights policies in performing sports, from both organizational and interpersonal perspectives. The book focuses on the benefits of sports and the human rights and safety challenges within the operations of sports organizations and their impact on individual players.
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Yvonne Vissing, PhD, is a Professor of Healthcare Studies, focusing on health policy and public health, and the Founding Director of the Center for Childhood & Youth Studies at Salem State University. She is the US policy chair for the Hope for Children Convention on the Child Policy Center in Cyprus, on the Steering Committee for Human Rights Educators USA, and is on the AAAS Human Rights Council. Vissing is author of 17 books, including Children's Human Rights in the USA: Challenge & Opportunities (Springer 2023), Changing the Paradigm of Homelessness (Routledge 2020), and The Rights of Unaccompanied Minors (Springer 2021). A clinical sociologist, National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on child abuse and Whiting Foundation fellow studying child rights, she was also a Dialogue and Democracy fellow at UCONN's Dodd Center for Human Rights. She is a graduate of Equitas International Human Rights Training Program in Montreal. She is CEO of Trainingfor Excellence.
Content
Discourses of Human Rights in Sports.- Sport as a Basic Human Right: A Socio-philosophical Inquiry.- Athlete Rights are Human Rights: How athlete centricity led USA Gymnastics' culture change.- The other athlete: Human rights in equestrian sports.- A World of Responsible Sport.- Sexual Abuse and Human Rights in Sport: Why It Matters.- Transgender Sports Bans are a Human Rights Issue.- Human Rights and lex sportiva: Sport for all.- Sports and the lives of children: The limitless negative impact of Coercion.- Born to Ride or Exploited Children: Mongolian Child Jockeys and International Human Rights Law.- Globalisation, Human Rights, Sports, and Culture: Research findings.
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