Gender Relations and Sport for Development in Colombia: A Decolonial Feminist Analysis |
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Authors: | Sarah Oxford Ramón Spaaij |
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Affiliation: | 1. Sport in Society Research Program, Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia;2. Sarah.Oxford@vu.edu.au;4. Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | AbstractPlaying sports has long been a taboo for women in Colombia, yet new spaces for female participation have emerged in recent decades. This article explores the gendered nature of sport in Colombia through the lived experiences of female participants involved in a local Sport for Development and Peace organization. Building on ethnographic fieldwork and a decolonial feminist perspective, the authors examine how cultural experiences of physicality are gendered but are potentially changing in the context of leisure practices and how this may shape power relations. Although more girls and women are participating in masculine leisure pursuits, there are critical limitations to social change and female participants demonstrate the coloniality of gender in action. |
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Keywords: | Colombia decolonial feminism gender relations sport for development and peace sport gender and development |
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