Towards an understanding of netball in Malawi, international sport development and identification: theoretical and methodological sensitizing issues.

This paper sets out a research proposal and an agenda for understanding the international development context of women's experiences of netball in Malawi. The focus is to elaborate theoretical and methodological issues for researchers seeking to understand women's sport and international development. These points of discussion concern: (1) international development of netball; (2) use of sport for international development and social change; (3) history and politics of Malawi; (4) theoretical approaches to understanding gender, identities and intersectionality; and (5) problems of colonizing–decolonizing methodological approaches to understanding sport. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]