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AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES
Volume 44, Issue 1, Pages 91-106Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/j.1839-4655.2009.tb00132.x
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social inclusion; sport and recreation; cultural diversity
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Sport and recreation can help communities to build social inclusion and celebrate diversity. Yet some sport and recreation activities require conformity to social and cultural norms, risking suppressing difference and reinforcing inequality and exclusion. This paper explores these tensions by examining access and barriers to sport and recreation for a large group of Australian women: those from culturally diverse backgrounds. Qualitative data shows that while sport industry representatives justify catering primarily for a mainstream participant base, culturally diverse women identify barriers requiring strategic and targeted policy and program intervention. Implicating the spatial organisation of sport and recreation as sources of marginalisation, culturally diverse women highlight how access-enhancing initiatives in public, commercial and community sport facilities can play key roles in promoting social inclusion.
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