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      ‘Once my relatives see me on social media… it will be something very bad for my family’: The Ethics and Risks of Organizational Representations of Sporting Girls from the Global South

      Thorpe, Holly Aysha; Hayhurst, Lyndsay; Chawansky, Megan
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      Thorpe, H. A., Hayhurst, L., & Chawansky, M. (2017). ‘Once my relatives see me on social media… it will be something very bad for my family’: The Ethics and Risks of Organizational Representations of Sporting Girls from the Global South. Sociology of Sport Journal, 1–41. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2017-0020
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/11825
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      This paper explores the ethics of representing girls and young women from the global South in Sport for Development (SfD) organizational campaigns via the case of Skateistan—an international SfD organization with skateboarding and educational programmes in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa. Focusing particularly on Skateistan’s representations of skateboarding girls and young women in Afghanistan, we draw upon interviews with staff members as well as digital ethnography and organizational curriculum materials, to reveal some of the nuanced power relations within such media portrayals. In so doing, we also draw attention to some of the unintended risks of ‘positive’ representations of sporting girls from the global South, and some of the strategies employed by Skateistan to navigate such issues.
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      2017
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      Journal Article
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      This is an author’s accepted version of an article published in the journal: Sociology of Sport Journal. ©2017 Human Kinetics, Inc.
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