dc.contributor.author | Charway, Derrick Okpoti | |
dc.contributor.author | Houlihan, Barrie | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-20T03:33:24Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-03-20T03:33:24Z | |
dc.date.created | 2020-08-21T13:27:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.identifier.citation | International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. 2020, 12(3), 497-512. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1940-6940 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2734588 | |
dc.description | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The profile gives an overview of the changing trends of sport policies adopted in Ghana and highlights how past political upheavals made it difficult to have stable sport development strategies. Currently, the emergence of different actors within the sport policy sub-system of Ghana is apparent however the reliance on government for the development of sport makes it difficult to decouple party politics from sport development strategy. The profile begins with a detailed account of the emergence of sport from pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial traditions in the history of Ghana. This is followed by an analysis of the current structure of sport and funding patterns and trends. The dominance of football and contemporary issues such as migration, gender equality and disability are also discussed in terms of their impact on policy. The final part highlights the nascent ‘sport for development’ sector in relation to the United Nation’s MDGs and SDGs and how they have influenced sport policy and development in Ghana. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.subject | Ghana | en_US |
dc.subject | politics | en_US |
dc.subject | sport development | en_US |
dc.subject | sport policy and sustainable development goals | en_US |
dc.title | Country profile of Ghana: Sport, politics and nation-building | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | © 2020 The Author(s) | en_US |
dc.source.pagenumber | 497-512 | en_US |
dc.source.volume | 12 | en_US |
dc.source.journal | International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics | en_US |
dc.source.issue | 3 | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/19406940.2020.1775677 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1824494 | |
dc.description.localcode | Institutt for idrett og samfunnsvitenskap / Department of Sport and Social Sciences | en_US |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 1 | |