Towards an understanding of netball in Malawi, international sport development and identification: theoretical and methodological sensitizing issues

Abstract

This paper sets out a research proposal and an agenda for understanding the international development context of women's experiences of netball in Malawi. The focus is to elaborate theoretical and methodological issues for researchers seeking to understand women's sport and international development. These points of discussion concern: (1) international development of netball; (2) use of sport for international development and social change; (3) history and politics of Malawi; (4) theoretical approaches to understanding gender, identities and intersectionality; and (5) problems of colonizing–decolonizing methodological approaches to understanding sport.

Notes

^1.Mansfield and Killick, ‘Netball Superleague’. In addition, I have not been to Malawi and so I speak as a relative outsider to the African context. However, I grew up playing netball in the UK and played in representative sides and national leagues for over three decades (1984–2006).

^2. The material in this section will be first published in Mansfield, ‘Netball, British Isles’, and appears with permission from the editor and the publisher.

^3.Jobling and Barham, ‘Development of Netball’.

^4.Taylor, ‘Gendering Sport’.

^5.Dean, ‘“Dear Sisters” and “Hated Rivals”’.

^6.Jobling and Barham, ‘Development of Netball’.

^7.Birley, Land of Sport and Glory.

^8. Ibid., 101–2.

^9.Jobling and Barham, ‘Development of Netball’.

^10.Emery, ‘First Intercollegiate Contest’.

^11.Hargreaves, Sporting Females.

^12. England Netball, ‘History of England Netball’, http://www.englandnetball.co.uk/about-england-netball/history_of_england_netball (accessed August 12, 2010).

^13.Mansfield and Killick, ‘Citius, Altius, Fortius?’ and ‘The UK Netball Superleague’.

^14. International Federation of Netball Associations, ‘Current World Rankings’, http://www.netball.org/ifna.aspx?id = 94 (accessed August 12, 2011).

^15. Andrew Guest, ‘The Women's Game in Africa: “Zanzibar Soccer Queens” and Other Tales’, http://www.pitchinvastion.net (accessed March 1, 2010).

^16. Ibid.

^17.Hokkanen, ‘Moral Transgression’.

^18.Hokkanen and Mangan, ‘Further Variations’.

^19.Hokkanen, ‘Scottish Missionaries’.

^20.Kay, ‘Developing Through Sport’.

^21.Jeanes and Kay, ‘Editor's Introduction’.

^22.Mwaanga, ‘Sport for Addressing HIV/AIDS’, 58.

^23.Sugden, ‘Playing Sport’.

^24.Kidd, ‘New Social Movement’.

^25.Kay, ‘Reported Benefits of Sport’.

^26.Mwaanga, ‘Sport for Addressing HIV/AIDS’, 58.

^27.United Nations General Assembly, ‘Sport as a Means to Promote Education’.

^28. Ibid., 59.

^29. Ibid., 64. This point has also been made by Jean and Chawansky, see article in this volume.

^30.Chan, Grasping Africa, ix.

^31. Ibid.

^32. Ibid.

^33.Kaspin, ‘Politics of Ethnicity’.

^34. Ibid., 601.

^35. Ibid., 602.

^36.Van Donge, ‘Kamuzu's Legacy’.

^37.Englund, ‘Dead Hand of Human Rights’.

^38. Ibid., 580.

^39. Guest, ‘Women's Game in Africa’.

^40.Jeanes, ‘Zambian Young People's Views’, 44.

^41. The material in this section was first published in Mansfield and Curtis, ‘Competing Women’, and appears with permission of the editors and the publisher.

^42.Gray, ‘Home of Our Mothers’; and Rooney, ‘Intersectionality in Transition’.

^43.Hargreaves, Heroines of Sport.

^44.Collins, Fighting Words; and hooks, Ain't I a Woman.

^45.Maynard, ‘“Race”, Gender’, 111.

^46.Hall, Feminism and Sporting Bodies, 40.

^47. , ‘Involved-Detachment’; and Mansfield, ‘Reconsidering Feminisms’.

^48.Brah, ‘Questions of Difference’.

^49.Maynard, ‘“Race”, Gender’.

^50.McCall, ‘Complexity of Intersectionality’.

^51.Rooney, ‘Intersectionality in Transition’, 3.

^52.McCall, ‘Complexity of Intersectionality’, 1179.

^53.Maynard, ‘“Race”, Gender’, 119.

^54. Ibid., 119.

^55. Ibid., 112.

^56.Collins, Fighting Words, 207.

^57.Ringrose, ‘Troubling Agency and “Choice”’.

^58.Carrington, Race, Sport and Politics, 2.

^59. Ibid., 4.

^60.Mennell, ‘Formation of We-Images’, 180.

^61. Ibid., 185.

^62.Mansfield, ‘Reconsidering Feminisms’.

^63.Mwaanga, ‘Sport for Addressing HIV/AIDS’, 61.

^64.Kay, ‘Developing Through Sport’, 1177.

^65.Fokwang, ‘Southern Perspectives’; and Magee, ‘Developing People Through Sport’.

^66.Kay, ‘Developing Through Sport’.

^67.Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies, 1.

^68. Ibid., 1.

^69. Ibid., 118.

^70.Coalter, ‘Sport in Development’; and Lindsey and Banda, ‘Sport and the Fight’.

^71.Mwaanga, ‘Sport for Addressing HIV/AIDS’, 63.