Sport Development and Sport for Development in the Caribbean
A Sociology of Emerging Trends
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The emergence of sport for development as a developmental strategy led by the United Nations and the use of sport by companies around the world as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility strategies have brought to the fore its developmental utility. Within this broader global context, Sport Development and Sport for Development in the Caribbean offers a unique focus on the Caribbean context to examine issues related to sport development and sport for development across a range of Caribbean countries that include Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Building on a relatively small, emerging body of work on the Caribbean context, the chapters showcase how this region has been an important part of the processes of globalization, commercialization and professionalization that have expressed themselves in and through sport. Touching on a range of sports which have formed part of Caribbean sport history and culture, including cricket, athletics, baseball and soccer, authors examine a broad array of issues in Caribbean sport that have come to define the contemporary scope of sport sociology. Topics covered are globalization, commercialization, professionalization, nationalism, gender, race, national identity, nationalism, athletic migration and disability.
Introduction – Sport Development and Sport for Development in the Caribbean: A Sociology of Emerging Trends; Roy McCree
- Section I. Development of Sport
- Chapter 1. A Multi-Level Analysis of 20th Century West Indian Cricket as Black Sporting Resistance; Joseph N. Cooper
- Chapter 2. Haitian Isolation: Baseball’s Identity Crisis in the Dominican Republic; Patrick Gentile
- Chapter 3. Baseball: A Cultural Sport Practice and National Heritage in Cuba; Neris Rodríguez-Matos, Margarita Victoria Hernández Garrido, and Jorge Luis Herrera Ochoa
- Chapter 4. Cuban Women in Sport: A Soft Power Asset of the Socialist Revolution; Jacqueline Laguardia Martinez
- Chapter 5. From a Trickle to a Throng: Transatlantic Soccer Migration from Trinidad and Tobago, 1933-2019; Roy McCree
- Chapter 6. A Culture of Care: Jamaican Female College Athletes and Yosso’s Cultural Wealth Model; Khalilah Doss
- Chapter 7. Recruitment and Retention Issues of Female Athletes: Triathletes in Trinidad and Tobago; Anand Rampersad
- Chapter 8. Indigenous Sports in the French Caribbean: Gender, the Yoles Rondes and Boat Racing in Martinique; Hélène Zamor
- Section II. Sport for Development
- Chapter 9. Esports and Sport for Development in the Caribbean; Russell Stockard
- Chapter 10. Sport for Development in Haiti and the Contribution of Haitian Athletes to the World of Football; Eustache Placide
- Chapter 11. Where Bodies Roar: The Transformative Impact of Football on Earthquake Survivors with Physical Disabilities in Haiti; Kapriskie Seide and Gayle Kaufman
- Chapter 12. Boxing Beyond the Ring: A Holistic Program for Women in Trinidad and Tobago; Ria Ramnarine, Kalyn McDonough, and Matthew J. Robinson
Roy McCree is a sociologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Trinidad and Tobago Campus. He is a former President of the Caribbean Sociological Association (CASA) (2021-2023). His broad research interests cover sport, positive youth development, community development, public-private partnerships and monitoring and evaluation.