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Sport and the Environment

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Research in the Sociology of Sport Volume 13

Sport and the Environment: Politics and Preferred Futures

Edited by

Brian Wilson

University of British Columbia, Canada

Brad Millington

Brock University, Canada

United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China

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About the Authors

Kyle S. Bunds is an Assistant Professor of Sport and Sustainable Community Development at NC State University. He studies Sport and the Environment, broadly conceived. His research has been published in journals such as Sustainability, Transportation Research Part D, Transportation Research Part F, and Sociology of Sport Journal.

Simon C. Darnell is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research focuses on the relationship between sport, international development and peacebuilding, the development implications of sports mega events, and the place of social activism in the culture of sport.

Bruce Erickson is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Manitoba. His work focuses on the colonial and cultural politics of outdoor recreation and tourism in Canada. He is the author of Canoe Nation: Nature, Race and the Making of a Canadian Icon.

Kass Gibson is an Associate Professor at Plymouth Marjon University, UK, where he teaches research methods, social theory, and pedagogy. His research uses a range of sociological theories and research methodologies to understand experiences and practices in research, physical activity, and public health.

Audrey R. Giles is a Full Professor in the School of Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa. An applied anthropologist, she conducts primarily community-based research with Indigenous communities. She is interested in the nexus between gender/culture/place.

Michael Hart is a citizen of Fisher River Cree Nation, is the Vice Provost of Indigenous Engagement at the University of Calgary. Michael's research interests are focused on Indigenous Knowledges, particularly in relation to Indigenous ways of healing and well-being. He has been involved with the SSHRC-funded Indigenous Wellbeing of Boys and Men project since 2014.

Lyndsay M. C. Hayhurst is an Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science at York University. Her research interests include sport for development and peace, cultural studies of girlhood, postcolonial feminist theory, and corporate social responsibility. She has previously worked for the United Nations Development Programme and Right to Play.

Timothy Kellison, PhD, is Director of the Center for Sport and Urban Policy and Assistant Professor at Georgia State University (Atlanta, Georgia USA). His research is primarily focused on sport in urban environments, with special emphasis in sport ecology, public policy, and urban and regional planning.

Kyoung-yim Kim is an Assistant Professor of the Practice of Social Science in the Department of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at Boston College, USA. Her research focuses on sport's transnational power relations in environmentalism, civic solidarity and activism, labor migration, and media.

Gerald Mason is a member of Fisher River Cree Nation. He is a land-based educator at Fisher River High School and is a collaborator on the Indigenous Wellbeing of Boys and Men project. Gerry was recently recognized for his outstanding contributions to youth mentorship with an Indspire Indigenous Education Award (2015).

Brian P. McCullough, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Texas A&M University (College Station, Texas, USA). He is also the codirector of the Sport Ecology Group. Dr McCullough has published his work in Sport Management Review, Journal of Sport Management, and European Sport Management Quarterly.

Christopher M. McLeod is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology & Sport Management at Texas Tech University. He studies labor issues and ecology in sport. His research has been published in journals such as Sociology of Sport Journal and Journal of Sport Management.

Brad Millington is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sport Management at Brock University. His research interests lie with sport and sustainability and with health and fitness technologies. He is coauthor of The Greening of Golf: Sport, Globalization, and the Environment (with Brian Wilson), and author of Fitness, Technology & Society: Amusing Ourselves to Life.

Rob Millington is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Brock University, Canada. His research focuses on how international NGOs such as the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee mobilize sport for sustainable development in policy and practice in both historical and contemporary contexts.

Joshua I. Newman is a Professor in the Department of Sport Management at Florida State University. His research manuscripts have been featured in The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, American Behavioral Scientist, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, and Sociology of Sport Journal.

Moss E. Norman, a fourth-generation white settler, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia. He is the Principal Investigator on the Indigenous Wellbeing of Boys and Men project, which was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

Tavis Smith is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research focuses on the relationship between sport, well-being, and social change, sport and sustainability, and the role of sport and recreation in processes of settler colonialism and decolonization.

Nicolien van Luijk is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include sport for development, human rights, and sport mega events, and the impacts of climate change on Indigenous communities in Canada.

Belinda Wheaton is a Professor in the School of Health, University of Waikato, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Belinda is best known for her research on informal and lifestyle sport cultures including The Cultural Politics of Lifestyle Sports, (Routledge, 2013). She is co-editor of Leisure and the Politics of the Environment (Routledge, 2014). Belinda is Managing Editor of Annals of Leisure Research.

Brian Wilson is a Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Director of the Centre for Sport and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. He coauthored The Greening of Golf: Sport, Globalization and the Environment (with Brad Millington), authored Sport & Peace: A Sociological Perspective, and coedited Sport and Physical Culture in Canadian Society (with Jay Scherer).

Liv Yoon is a postdoctoral fellow at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, studying social and political dimensions of climate change. She obtained her PhD at The University of British Columbia in Canada where she studied intersections of environmental politics, communication, and social inequality surrounding an Olympic-related development project.

Acknowledgments

Many thanks are owed to many people who helped make this book possible. We begin, of course, with the authors who generously contributed their expertise and valuable time to the chapters of this collection. We especially appreciate the range of compelling attempts these authors made to bridge analyses of sport-related environmental issues with considerations of “what a preferred future might look like.” As we discuss in our introductory chapter, we think these kinds of efforts are a necessary part of a sociological response to pressing environment-related problems – sport-related and otherwise.

We are also grateful to Kevin Young, the series editor for Emerald Publishing's Research in the Sociology of Sport book series, whose ongoing assistance and engagement with this project has been invaluable to us. The range of supporters at Emerald Publishing also deserves recognition here for their help at the various stages.

Thanks are also owed to several anonymous reviewers who offered incisive and useful feedback on the chapters – feedback that informed our comments to authors and in some cases important chapter revisions.

Finally, and crucially, we offer our immense gratitude to our families (Desirée and Bailey, for Brian; and Katie, Freda and Theo, for Brad) for their support, patience, and love throughout this editing journey and everything else.