Football, community and social inclusion /
Contributor(s): Parnell, Daniel [editor] | Richardson, David [editor].
Series: Sport in the global society.Publisher: Abdingdon, Oxon, UK : Routledge, 2015Description: xii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 1138084468; 9781138084469:; 9781138084469.Subject(s): Soccer -- England
| Soccer -- Social aspects -- England | Soccer -- Social aspects | Community development -- England | Community lifeDDC classification: 613.71072 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Introduction / Daniel Parnell and David Richardson -- Corporate social responsibility and social partnerships in professional football / Geoff Walters and Mark Panton -- Little United and the Big Society : negotiating the gaps between football, community and the politics of inclusion / Annabel Kiernan and Chris Porter -- Growing the football game : the increasing economic and social relevance of older fans and those with disabilities in the European football industry / Juan Luis Paramio Salcines, John Grady and Phil Downs -- Fit fans : perspectives of a practitioner and understanding participant health needs within a health promotion programme for older men delivered within an English Premier league Football Club / Daniel David Bingham, Daniel Parnell, Kathryn Curran, Roger Jones and Dave Richardson -- Effect of a health-improvement pilot programme for older adults delivered by a professional football club : the Burton Albion case study / Andy prinle, Daniel Parnell, Stephen Zwolinsky, Jackie Hargreaves and Jim McKenna -- 'I just want to watch the match' : a practitioner's reflective account of men's health themed match day events at an English Premier League football club / Kathryn Curran, Barry Drust and Dave Richardson -- Ethnographic engagement from within a Football in the Community programme at an English Premier League football club / Kathryn Curran, Daniel David Bingham, David Richardson and Daniel Parnell -- 'Motivate' : effect of Football in the Community delivered weight loss programme on over 35-year old men and women's cardiovascular risk factors / Zoe Rutherford, Brendan Gough, Sarah Seymour-Smith, Christopher R. Matthews, John Wilcox, Dan Parnell and Andy Pringle -- Assessing the impact of football-based health improvement programmes : stay onside, avoid own goals and score with the evaluation! / Andy Pringle, Jackie Hargreaves, Lorena Lozano, Jim McKenna and Stephen Zwolinsky.
With a focus on English community football organisations, this volume explores the current role of football and football clubs in supporting and delivering social inclusion and health promotion to communities, as well as the philosophical, political, environmental and practical challenges of this work. The power and subsequent lure of a football club and its brand is an ideal vehicle to entice and capture populations that (normally) ignore or turn away from positive social and/or health behaviours. The foundations of such a belief are examined, and key recommendations and considerations for both researchers and practitioners attending to these social and health issues through the vehicle of football are outlined.