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Mountain Biking and Trail Building: Capability Expansion, Relationships, and Social Change in the Contact Zone /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mountain Biking and Trail Building: Capability Expansion, Relationships, and Social Change in the Contact Zone // Tavis Turner Smith.
Author:	Smith, Tavis Turner,
Description:	1 electronic resource (291 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-05, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International86-05B.
Subject:	Sociology. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30816894
ISBN:	9798342740166

Mountain Biking and Trail Building: Capability Expansion, Relationships, and Social Change in the Contact Zone /
Smith, Tavis Turner,

Mountain Biking and Trail Building: Capability Expansion, Relationships, and Social Change in the Contact Zone /Tavis Turner Smith. - 1 electronic resource (291 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-05, Section: B.

The sport-for-development (SfD) field has grown in recent years, coming to be theorized, researched, and practiced from myriad disciplinary perspectives. Two of these perspectives, postcolonial thought and the Capability Approach, represent fruitful avenues for extending normative and evaluative aspects of research and practice. In this dissertation, I draw on the convergence of these two strands of thought to understand the role of sport, particularly the process of building mountain bike trails, in an Indigenous community development project in British Columbia. Using a relational perspective grounded in postcolonial theory, I used ethnographic methods and media analyses to engage with the process of trail building across two summer building seasons. Further, I used the Capability Approach to engage with ethnographic and interview data through the lens of a critical development perspective. To do so, mountain biking and outdoor recreation are located first, within the discursive and policy environments of settler colonial Canada, second, as a facilitator of intercultural and inter-community contact, and third, as a vehicle for expanding capabilities. The research suggests that outdoor recreation is positioned as an aspect of a contemporary settler economy, but that this does not preclude Indigenous communities from leveraging it in ways that can disrupt settler colonial structures in some ways. Within this socio-political milieu, the research shows that SfD projects that prioritize creating opportunities for creative expression, cultural values, and meaningful work may enhance the potential for sport to contribute to well-being.

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ISBN: 9798342740166Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Sociology.
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Mountain biking

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