Selected Refereed Journal Articles

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Ferreira Gomes, J.*, Hayhurst, L.M.C., Darroch, F.E. & Warner, M. (2024). "Let's talk about, like, how they're struggling with their sexuality”: Exploring Gender Diversity and Trauma-and Violence-informed Sport for Development. Sociology of Sport Journal. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2023-0114

McRae, N., Giles, A., & Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2024). Safe Sport for Whom?: Are National Sport Organizations Addressing

the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action for Sport through Safe Sport Policies? International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2024.2323006

Nachman, J., Hayhurst, L.M.C. & Wang, R. (2024). Bicycling for mutual aid: Centering racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ cyclists in Toronto. Urban, Planning and Transport Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/21650020.2023.2277804

Ferreria Gomes, J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., McSweeney, M., Darroch, F.E. & Sinclair, T. (2024). Gender-based violence and trauma-and violence-informed approaches to sport for development: A scoping review. Journal of Sport for Development.

Nachman, J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., & McSweeney, M. (2023). Co-creating knowledge on Bicycles for Development: A decolonial feminist Participatory Action Research approach to arts-based methods. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise & Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2023.2243955

Holmes, A., Giles, A. & Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2023). “I Keep Forgetting Them”: Lacrosse, Indigenous Women and Girls, and Reconciliation in Canada. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. https://doi.org/10.1177/101269022311729

McSweeney, M., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Millington, B., Wilson, B., Ardizzi, M., & Otte, J. (2023). Bicycles and the Potential of Unstructured Sport for Development and Peace. Leisure Sciences. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2023.2217161

Latino, S., Giles, A., Rynne, S. & Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2023). Extractives Companies’ Social Media Portrayals of their Funding of Sport for Development in Indigenous Communities in Canada and Australia. Communication & Sport, 10(6), 1188-1209.

Forde, S., Giles, A., Stewart-Withers, R., Rynne, S., Hayhurst, L.M.C. & Henhawk, D. (2023). Sport for Reconciliation? Federal Sport Policy in Settler-Colonial States. International Indigenous Policy Journal.

Kaur, T., Forde, S. & Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2023). Working-class cyclists on Rudolf Greyling Street, Bloemfontein: Buffers between practices and practicalities of “Bicycles-for-Development. Urban Forum. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-022-09475-7

Forde, S., Giles, A., Nachman, J.*, Fabian, T., Giancarlo, A., Hayhurst, L.M.C. & Rynne, S. (2023). Conceptualizing Sport for Reconciliation within Settler Colonial States. Journal of Sport for Development. 11(1).

Nachman, J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Giles, A., Stewart-Withers, R. & Henhawk, D. (2022). Sport for Reconciliation: Re-examining Indigenous Refusal. Sociology of Sport Journal. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2021-0147.

McSweeney, M.J., Otte, J., Eyul, P., Hayhurst, L.M.C., & Tara Parytci, D. (2022). Conducting effectivecollaborative research across global North-South contexts: Benefits, challenges, and implications of working withvisual and digital participatory research approaches. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2022.2048059

Hayhurst, L.M.C., McSweeney, M., Bandoles, E., Otte, J., del Socorro Cruz Centeno, L. & Wilson, B. (2022). “Bicycles are important for women!” Exploring bicycles, gender and development in Nicaragua and Uganda. Third World Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2021.2020634

Millington, R., Giles, A. & van Lujik, N., Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2022). Sport for sustainability? The extractives industry, Sport for Development and the Triple Bottom Line. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 46(3), 293-317.  https://doi.org/10.1177/0193723521991413.

McSweeney, M., Millington, R., Hayhurst, L.M.C. & Darnell, S. (2022). Becoming an occupation? A research agenda into the professionalization of the sport for development and peace sector.  Journal of Sport Management. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2021-0099

Steinmann, J., Wilson, B., McSweeney, M.J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., & Bandoles, E. (2021). Experiences of ‘safe space’: From a bicycle program to the road. Sociology of Sport Journal. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2020-0155

McSweeney, M., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Wilson, B., Bandoles, E. & Leung, K. (2021). Colliding mandates of social enterprises: Exploring the financial strategies, environment, and social-market tensions of bicycles-for-development organizations. Sport Management Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/14413523.2021.1899721

Ardizzi, M., Wilson, B., Hayhurst, L.M.C., McSweeney, M. & Otte, J. (2020). “People still believe the bicycle is for a poor person”: Features of ‘Bicycles for Development’ organizations in Uganda and perspectives of practitioners. Sociology of Sport Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2019-0167

McSweeney, M., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Wilson, B., Bandoles, E. & Leung, K. (Accepted). Colliding mandates of social enterprises: Exploring the financial strategies, environment, and social-market tensions of bicycles-for-development organizations. Sport Management Review.

Steinmann, J., Wilson, B., McSweeney, M.J., Hayhurst, L.M.C., & Bandoles, E. (In press). Experiences of ‘safe space’: From a bicycle program to the road. Sociology of Sport Journal.

Millington, R., Giles, A. & van Lujik, N., Hayhurst, L.M.C. (In press). Sport for sustainability? The extractives industry, Sport for Development and the Triple Bottom Line. Journal of Sport and Social Issues. DOI: 10.1177/0193723521991413.

Ardizzi, M., Wilson, B., Hayhurst, L.M.C., McSweeney, M. & Otte, J. (2020, online first). “People still believe the bicycle is for a poor person”: Features of ‘Bicycles for Development’ organizations in Uganda and perspectives of practitioners. Sociology of Sport Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2019-0167

van Lujik, N., Giles, A., Hayhurst, L.M.C., & Millington, R. (2020, online first). The Extractives Industry: (un)likely and (un)welcome partners in regenerating Indigenous cultures in Canada? Annals of Leisure Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2020.1768877

Millington, R., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Giles, A. & Rynne, S. (2020, online first). ‘Back in the day, you really just opened your mine…and on you went’: Extractives industry executives’ perspectives on funding sport for development programs in Indigenous communities in Canada. Journal of Sport Management. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2019-0345

McSweeney, M., Millington, B., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Wilson, B., Ardizzi, M. & Otte, J. (2020, online first).‘The bike breaks down. What are they going to do?’ Actor-networks and the Bicycles for Development movement. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1012690220904921

Millington, R., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Giles, A. & Rynne, S. (Accepted). ‘Back in the day, you really just opened your mine…and on you went’: Extractives industry executives’ perspectives on funding sport for development programs in Indigenous communities in Canada. Journal of Sport Management.

McSweeney, M.J., Millington, B., Hayhurst, L.M.C., Wilson, B., Ardizzi, M., and Otte, J. (Accepted). “The actual use of them is complex”: Actor -network theory, the bicycle, and other non-human actors in international development. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. 

van Lujik, N., Millington, R., Frigault, J, Giles, A. & Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2020). “It’s like, we are thankful. But in the other way…they are just killing us too”: Community members’ perspectives of the extractives industry’s funding of recreational and cultural programmes in Fort McKay, Alberta. Leisure/Loisir, 44(12), 77-104. https://doi.org/10.1080/14927713.2020.1745670

Hayhurst, L.M.C. & del Socorro Cruz Centeno, L. (2019). “We Are Prisoners in Our Own Homes”: Connecting the Environment, Gender-based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights to Sport for Development and Peace in Nicaragua. Sustainability, 11(16), 4485. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11164485.

Millington, R., Giles, A., Hayhurst, L.M.C., van Luijk, N., & McSweeney, M. (2019, online first). ‘Calling out’ corporate Redwashing: The extractives industry, corporate social responsibility and sport for development in Indigenous communities in Canada. Sport in Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2019.1567494

McSweeney, M.J., Kikulis, L., Thibault, L., Hayhurst, L.M.C., & van Ingen, C. (2019, online first). Maintaining and disrupting global-North hegemony/global-South dependence in a local African sport for development organization: The role of institutional work. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. doi: 10.1080/19406940.2018.1550797

Gardam, K., Giles, A., Rynne, S. & Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2018). A Comparison of Indigenous Sport for Development Policy Directives in Canada and Australia. aboriginal policy studies, 7(2), 29-46.

Thorpe, H., Hayhurst, L.M.C. & Chawansky, M. (Forthcoming). ‘Once my relatives see me on social media it will be very bad’: The Ethics of Organizational Representations of Sporting Girls from the Global South. Sociology of Sport Journal.

Hayhurst, L.M.C. (Forthcoming). Image-ining Resistance: Using Postcolonial Feminist Participatory Action Research and Visual Research Methods in Sport for Development and Peace. Third World Thematics.

Hayhurst, L.M.C., Sundstrom, L. & Arksey, E. (Forthcoming). Navigating Norms: Charting Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Sexual Health Rights through Global-Local Sport for Development and Peace Relations in Nicaragua. Sociology of Sport Journal.

Gardham, K., Giles, A. & Hayhurst, L.M.C. (Forthcoming). Sport for Development for Aboriginal Youth in Canada: A Scoping Review. Journal of Sport for Development.

Gardham, K., Giles, A. & Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2017). Understanding the privatization of funding for sport for development in the Northwest Territories: A Foucauldian analysis. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. doi: 10.1080/19406940.2017.1310742.

Hayhurst, L.M.C. & Szto, C. (2016). Corporatizating activism through sport-focused social justice?: Investigating Nike’s Corporate Responsibility initiatives in Sport for Development and Peace.  Journal of Sport & Social Issues.

Darnell, S.C., Chawansky, M., Marchessault, D., Holmes, M. and Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2016). The State of Play: Critical sociological insights into recent 'Sport for Development and Peace' research. International Review for the Sociology of Sport.doi:10.1177/1012690216646762

Hayhurst, L.M.C., Giles, A.R. & Wright, J. (2016). Biopedagogies and Indigenous Knowledge: Examining Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) for Indigenous Young Women in Canada and Australia. Sport, Education & Society. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2015.1110132.

Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2016). Sport for Development and Peace: A Call for Transnational, Multi-Sited, Postcolonial Feminist Research.Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise & Health. doi: 10.1080/2159676X.2015.1056824.

Hayhurst, L.M.C., Giles, A.R., Radforth, W. & The Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society (2015). “I want to come here to prove them wrong”: Using a Postcolonial Feminist Participatory Action Research (PFPAR) approach to studying Sport, Gender and Development programs for urban Indigenous young women. Sport in Society. doi: 10.1080/17430437.2014.997585.

Hayhurst, L.M.C., MacNeill, M., Kidd, B. & Knoppers, A. (2014). Gender-based violence and Sport for Development and Peace: Questions, concerns and cautions emerging from Uganda. Women’s Studies International Forum, 47, 157-167.

Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2014). The Girl Effect and martial arts: Exploring social entrepreneurship and Sport, Gender and Development in Uganda. Gender, Place & Culture, 21(3), 297-315. doi: 10.1080/0966369X.2013.802674.

Hayhurst, L.M.C. & Giles, A.R. (2013). Private and moral authority, self-determination, and the ‘domestic transfer objective:’ Foundations for understanding Sport for Development and Peace in Aboriginal communities in    Canada. Sociology of Sport Journal,30, 504-519.

Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2013). Girls as the ‘new’ agents of social change? Exploring the ‘Girl Effect’ through Sport, Gender and Development programs in Uganda. Sociological Research Online (Special Issue: Modern Girlhoods), 18(2).

Darnell, S.C. & Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2012). Hegemony, resistance, postcolonialism, and Sport-for Development: A response to Lindsey & Grattan. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 4(1), 111-124.

Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2011). Corporatising sport, gender and development: Postcolonial IR feminisms, transnational private governance and Global Corporate Social Engagement (GCSE). Third World Quarterly, 32(3), 531-549.

Darnell, S. C. & Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2011). Sport for Decolonization: Exploring a new praxis of sport for development. Progress in Development Studies, 11(3), 183-196.

Hayhurst, L.M.C., Wilson, B. & Frisby, W. (2011). Navigating neoliberal networks: Transnational Internet platforms in Sport for Development and Peace. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 46(3), 315-329.

Hayhurst, L.M.C. & Frisby, W. (2010). Inevitable tensions: Swiss and Canadian sport for development NGO perspectives on partnerships with high perfor mance sport. European Sport Management Quarterly, 10(1), 75-96.

Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2009). The power to shape policy: Charting sport for development and peace policy discourses. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 1(2), 203 – 227.

Wilson, B. & Hayhurst, L.M.C. (2009). Digital activism: Neoliberalism, the Internet, and sport for youth development. Sociology of Sport Journal, 26 (1), 155-181.

• Runner-up for outstanding paper of the year (2009), North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference, San Diego, California, 2010