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Peer Review Status: Refereed
Title: From minority to mainstream sport: establishing basketball in Scotland
Author(s): Walker, Ross
Contact Email: ross.walker1@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: America
basketball
institutionalization
Scotland
World War II
Issue Date: 24-Mar-2025
Date Deposited: 24-Mar-2025
Citation: Walker R (2025) From minority to mainstream sport: establishing basketball in Scotland. <i>Sport in Society</i>. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2025.2478017
Abstract: The history of wartime basketball in Scotland to date is limited. Gleaning information from local newspapers in the British Newspaper Archive, the article focuses on Scottish basketball during the 1930s and 1940s which were the transformational period of basketball in Scotland. It builds upon early knowledge about Scottish basketball through discussing the changing attitudes and growing acceptance of the game within culture and society. The article also adds to current historiography through documenting basketball’s search for recognition and its pre, during and post-World War II (WWII) development. It covers three areas: participatory patterns in perceived aggregate minority sports concerning what approaches worked and which did not; the impact of WWII on a minority sports development; the popularity of non-traditional and quintessential sports in wartime. The findings reveal that basketball became established in Scotland due to three overarching factors; societal shifts around sport; efforts of Scottish sport organizations; and WWII.
DOI Link: 10.1080/17430437.2025.2478017
Rights: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
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