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Examining the capacity of a sport for development programme to create social capital (2017)
Journal Article
Adams, A., Harris, K., & Lindsey, I. (2018). Examining the capacity of a sport for development programme to create social capital. Sport in Society, 21(3), 558-573. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2017.1346627

Robert Putnam’s conceptualization of social capital has been commonly associated with, and used to analyse, sport-for-development programmes. This paper bucks this trend and uses James Coleman’s rational strain of social capital to examine the use of... Read More about Examining the capacity of a sport for development programme to create social capital.