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Knowledge, power and politics: Contesting `Evidence-based' national sport policy Research Completed
Title
Knowledge, power and politics: Contesting `Evidence-based' national sport policy
Lead Author
J Piggin, S J Jackson and M Lewis
Organisation(s)
University of Otago
Publication Year
2009
Publisher
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 44(1), 87-101 .
This article analyses the sources of knowledge New Zealand sport and recreation policy-makers rely on when forming public policy. Specifically, utilising a Foucauldian lens of governmentality, the authors 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, the authors 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 utilise other, multifarious sources of knowledge in order to construct national sport policy. Considerations for the future setting of such public policy are offered, and in particular it is suggested the existing rationale for the formulation of public policy could be altered to acknowledge these wide ranging knowledges.
Keywords:
evidence based practice, policy, politics, recreation, sports,