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Currency exchange: sporting capital, cricket and South Asian communities.
- Source :
- Annals of Leisure Research; Oct2024, Vol. 27 Issue 4, p471-489, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This paper examines the involvement of members of South Asian communities in cricket (in Bradford and Leeds, UK). The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) identified that despite the high level of interest in cricket within these communities, relatively few were participating in opportunities provided through ECB structures; instead, they were engaged in various forms of 'informal' cricket. Using data from a small-scale survey and group interviews, this paper speaks to issues of diversity and equality utilizing Rowe's theory of sporting capital framed with insights from Critical Race Theory (CRT). We argue that Rowe's model should be refined by incorporating the concepts of cultural competence and cultural wealth. Doing this can safeguard against deficit models of capital that stress what people lack rather than what they possess. This provides the sporting establishment with better insight to how their sport is perceived and engaged with by those outside the mainstream. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- FOREIGN exchange
SPORTS
CRITICAL race theory
CULTURAL competence
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 11745398
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Annals of Leisure Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 179685722
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2022.2143829