Tag: Robert Menge
Thought-provoking and solid, but in need of decolonial reflection
David Ekholm & Magnus Dahlstedt’s Sport as Social Policy: Midnight Football and the Governing of Society (Routledge) analyzes the increasing use of sport in European and Western welfare states as a tool of social policy and its promotion as a solution to social problems. Our reviewers, Comfort Ankunda and Robert Menge give a detailed presentation of the book’s chapters and offer a thorough and critical analysis of the theories and methods behind the intervention, pointing out several problems relating to the lack of decolonial perspectives.
