Social Exclusion in Sports

The practice of intersectionality: the amateur elite sport development game

Irene Ryan and Simon Martin

This study uses an intersectional lens to examine the exclusion and subordination of people based on specific marginalized identities that occurs in the sports industry and examines how sports reflects and reinforces social inequalities. Irene Ryan and Simon Martin use New Zealand's amateur elite sports as their case study to examine the organization's treatment of those who do not align with the stereotypical idea of an "ideal" athlete. Read the full article here!

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