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Knowledge, power and politics: contesting 'evidence-based' national sport policy
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posted on 2014-06-27, 12:37 authored by Joe PigginJoe Piggin, Steven J. Jackson, Malcolm LewisThis article analyses the sources of knowledge New Zealand sport and recreation policy-makers rely on when forming public policy. Specifically, utilizing a Foucauldian lens of governmentality, we consider how New Zealand sport and recreation policy is influenced by various sources of knowledge. Through analysis of official policy documents, media releases and interviews with senior New Zealand policy managers, we argue that despite claims of positivistic, `evidence-based' policy, writers draw on a wide range of knowledge sources. Thus, despite being governed by positivism, policy-makers themselves utilize other, multifarious sources of knowledge in order to construct national sport policy. We offer considerations for the future setting of such public policy, and in particular suggest the existing rationale for the formulation of public policy could be altered to acknowledge these wide ranging knowledges.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
International Review for the Sociology of SportVolume
44Issue
(1)Pages
87 - 101Citation
PIGGIN, J., JACKSON, S.J. and LEWIS, M., 2009. Knowledge, power and politics: contesting 'evidence-based' national sport policy. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 44 (1), pp. 87 - 101Publisher
© ISSA and SAGE PublicationsVersion
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Publication date
2009Notes
This article is closed access.ISSN
1012-6902Publisher version
Language
- en