Playing Out: A Movement for Movement?

Viñas Chiappini, Verónica Esther; Pike, Elisabeth C. J.; Page, Angie

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Playing Out: A Movement for Movement?

dc.affiliation.dpto	UC3M. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales	es
dc.contributor.author	Viñas Chiappini, Verónica Esther
dc.contributor.author	Pike, Elisabeth C. J.
dc.contributor.author	Page, Angie
dc.date.accessioned	2023-11-23T13:11:10Z
dc.date.available	2023-11-23T13:11:10Z
dc.date.issued	2018-11-01
dc.description.abstract	In 2009, the "Playing Out" project was set up in Bristol in the United Kingdom by a parent-led community group who were seeking to address concerns about the lack of freedom for young people to play outside. Playing Out has, as its primary purpose, supporting children to "play out" where they live through providing the space within which children might engage in informal play and physical activity, while also improving relations between neighbors and developing a sense of community. This paper examines the potential of Playing Out for fostering community cohesion by undertaking interviews with participants, officials and policy-makers, alongside some observation of Playing Out events, between 2013 and 2016. In particular, we evaluate the significance of social capital for the development, and success, of a community-led initiative to influence policy outcomes and increase physical activity levels in the local population, giving consideration to the ways in which social movement concepts build on, and strengthen, social capital. In many societies, such activities take place within a context of neoliberalism, where social order is viewed as being dependent on individual responsibility: governments are deregulated, social programs are cut and/or privatized, and social problems have to be solved by individual, private solutions. Our findings draw on the work of Putnam (1993, 1996, 2000) to demonstrate that social capital is both cause and effect in the success of initiatives such as Playing Out, and that when social capital is combined with elements of a social movement, there can be more fundamental and sustained outcomes.	en
dc.format.extent	10	es
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation	Pike, E. C. J., Page, A., & Vinas, V. (2018). Playing Out: A Movement for Movement? Frontiers in Sociology, 3.	en
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2018.00032
dc.identifier.issn	2297-7775
dc.identifier.publicationissue	32	es
dc.identifier.publicationtitle	Frontiers in Sociology	en
dc.identifier.publicationvolume	3	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/38942
dc.identifier.uxxi	AR/0000023751
dc.language.iso	eng	en
dc.publisher	Frontiers Media	en
dc.rights	© 2018 Pike, Page and Vinas	*
dc.rights	Atribución 3.0 España	*
dc.rights.accessRights	open access	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/	*
dc.subject.eciencia	Sociología	es
dc.subject.other	Community cohesion	en
dc.subject.other	Playing out	en
dc.subject.other	Policy	en
dc.subject.other	Social capital	en
dc.subject.other	Social movements	en
dc.title	Playing Out: A Movement for Movement?	en
dc.type	research article	*
dc.type.hasVersion	VoR	*
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