The challenges faced by the only black team playing 6-down touch rugby at In2Touch : "I just saw all these white people and just thought Wah...what is going to happeb to us!"
Includes abstract. === Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-104). === These findings seriously question the idea that sport promotes egalitarianism. The data reveals that the legacy of apartheid still means that access to sports such as 6-down touch rugby are available only to areas with p...
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ndltd-netd.ac.za-oai-union.ndltd.org-uct-oai-localhost-11427-118272020-10-06T05:11:33Z The challenges faced by the only black team playing 6-down touch rugby at In2Touch : "I just saw all these white people and just thought Wah...what is going to happeb to us!" Broster, Philip Diversity Studies Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-104). These findings seriously question the idea that sport promotes egalitarianism. The data reveals that the legacy of apartheid still means that access to sports such as 6-down touch rugby are available only to areas with particular facilities and to those that can afford it. It is not available for all. Sport itself is not magic-wand through which people naturally find it possible to put behind them societal differences. Differences from greater society are mirrored in sport and this was evident from my data. 2015-01-09T08:53:12Z 2015-01-09T08:53:12Z 2008 Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11827 eng application/pdf University of Cape Town Faculty of Humanities Department of Sociology |
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Includes abstract. === Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-104). === These findings seriously question the idea that sport promotes egalitarianism. The data reveals that the legacy of apartheid still means that access to sports such as 6-down touch rugby are available only to areas with particular facilities and to those that can afford it. It is not available for all. Sport itself is not magic-wand through which people naturally find it possible to put behind them societal differences. Differences from greater society are mirrored in sport and this was evident from my data. |
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The challenges faced by the only black team playing 6-down touch rugby at In2Touch : "I just saw all these white people and just thought Wah...what is going to happeb to us!" |
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