Global Hoop Dreams
Navn på bevillingshaver
Derek Pardue
Institution
Aarhus University
Beløb
DKK 50,000
År
2021
Bevillingstype
Field Trips / Research Stays < 100,000
Resumé
Basketball is an emerging, yet understudied, case of sport in the help economy. In ‘developing’ nations, such as Brazil, basketball has begun to compete with football as a central area to help youth rise out of abject poverty. Why has basketball become a key means of poverty alleviation and youth empowerment? What sorts of effects does basketball development have on youth identification? To address these questions, I will conduct research at the universities of Duke and Georgetown in the United States. The immediate goal is to gather data and conduct interviews to better understand the perspective of basketball-as-development from the US perspective. Moreover, I aim to strengthen my individual and institutional networks related to basketball and Brazil.