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From promotion to protection: human rights and events, leisure and sport

This Special Issue of the journal Leisure Studies is an explicit engagement with human rights. Within the fields of events, leisure and sport there is no previous collection. There exists a rich supply of work on social justice, and moving forward, it is our contention that more concerted engagement with, and application of, human rights frameworks can enrich interdisciplinary work on social justice, international relations, politics and policy as well as the scholarship of sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, philosophy, history and law. In this collection there are nine papers that cover, broadly, the ways human rights are denied, articulated and not realised. Mega-events, either sporting or otherwise (e.g., Gay Pride) tend to be the focus of this inquiry, although there are important contributions on grassroots NGOs that illuminate circumstances faced by Refugees in France and local youth workers, within Sport for Development and Peace (SPD) projects, in South Africa. We thank the sixteen authors who have contributed their work. It is this collective voice that is essential for setting in motion a new era of human rights scholarship across the diverse reach of Leisure Studies.