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.
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1.CitationMansfield 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 CitationMansfield, ‘Netball, British Isles’, and appears with permission from the editor and the publisher.
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