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Knowledge, Power and Politics

Contesting `Evidence-based' National Sport Policy

Joe Piggin

Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand, jpiggin{at}unitec.ac.nz

Steven J. Jackson

University of Otago, New Zealand

Malcolm Lewis

University of Otago, New Zealand

This 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.

Key Words: evidence • Foucault • governmentality • New Zealand • public polic • sport and recreation

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 44, No. 1, 87-101 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1012690209102825
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