Sport In Scandinavia And The Nordic Countries

Author : Ken Green,Thorsteinn Sigurjónsson,Eivind Åsrum Skille
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781351684583

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Sport in Scandinavia and the Nordic Countries by Ken Green,Thorsteinn Sigurjónsson,Eivind Åsrum Skille Pdf

The Scandinavian and Nordic countries have some of the highest participation rates in sport and physical activity in the world and are therefore important case studies across a range of subjects, from sport policy to physical activity and health. This is the first book to bring together studies of all those countries in one volume, examining sport, physical activity and exercise, and exploring the factors behind such high levels of participation. Rich in empirical data, the book examines trends in sports participation, organisation and policy in each of the constituent countries, highlighting common themes and outcomes. This is a valuable resource for students, researchers and academics working in the fields of sport, physical education, leisure, sport policy, sport development, the sociology of sport, and physical activity and health.

Author : Henrik Meinander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135224776

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The Nordic World: Sport in Society by Henrik Meinander Pdf

This volume is a significant contribution to the study of contemporary European culture. It explores the political, social and aesthetic impact of modern sport on the Northern European Nordic communities. Its concern is the relationship between Nordic culture, Nordic nations, changing Nordic attitudes to time, space and the body and the related evolution of specific Nordic visions and traditions of sport as an integral component of cultural similarity and synthesis.

Author : Niels Kayser Nielsen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788771245271

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Body, Sport and Society in Norden by Niels Kayser Nielsen Pdf

This book comprises a number of cultural-historical and ethnographic studies of the history of sport in the Nordic countries. The studies examine the contribution made by sport to the development of Scandinavian nationalism in the nineteenth century, and analyze the ways in which sport became interwoven with the social life of citizens in the various Scandinavian countries in the twentieth century. The main focus of this volume, therefore, is not on the organizational history of sport, nor is it on society vis-a-vis sport - i.e., sport as a reflection of a certain societal constellation. Rather, what is of interest is sport in society, and therefore the book aims to illustrate the ways in which sport has been used and has served to help explain and understand Scandinavian society types.

Author : Svein S. Andersen,Lars Tore Ronglan
Publisher : Copenhagen Business School Press DK
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Professional sports
ISBN : 8763002450

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Nordic Elite Sport by Svein S. Andersen,Lars Tore Ronglan Pdf

This book provides an insightful overview over similarities and differences in the structures an methods applied in Nordic elite sport. It represents a milestone in understanding how these countries have dealt with the challenges of modern elite sport within a historical context. Despite initial similarities with respect to the structure and role of the sports movement, there are significant differences between the countries. The book represents a substantial contribution to the understanding of how the elite sports systems have developed within the broader sports movements, and how they are positioned to deal with today’s challenges under the watchful eye of the broader society.

Author : Mikkel B. Tin,Frode Telseth,Jan Ove Tangen,Richard Giulianotti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000693171

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The Nordic Model and Physical Culture by Mikkel B. Tin,Frode Telseth,Jan Ove Tangen,Richard Giulianotti Pdf

This book examines the relationships between the Nordic social democratic welfare system (‘The Nordic Model’) and physical culture, across the domains of sport, education, and public space. Presenting important new empirical research, it helps us to understand how the paradoxical blend of social democracy and liberalism in the Nordic countries influences physical culture, which in turn contributes to a quality of life that ranks highest in the world. Drawing on perspectives from sociology, cultural studies, history, education, political science, outdoor studies, and urban studies, the book explores topics such as dance education for sport students, doping in cross-country skiing, outdoor education, the active body, and the ideology of public parks. It includes research material from across the region, including Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, and Denmark. This is fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in physical culture, sport studies, leisure studies, or outdoor studies, as well as sociologists or political scientists with an interest in Nordic politics, culture, and society.

Author : Nils Asle Bergsgard,Solfrid Bratland-Sanda,Richard Giulianotti,Jan Ove Tangen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000049572

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Sport, Outdoor Life and the Nordic World by Nils Asle Bergsgard,Solfrid Bratland-Sanda,Richard Giulianotti,Jan Ove Tangen Pdf

Sport, Outdoor Life and the Nordic World explores the Nordic model of sport and outdoor life with respect to such issues as sport facilities, mountain guiding, women and ethnic minorities, urban planning, anti-doping, health, elite sport coaching and leadership, and the globalization of sport. The aims of the volume are twofold. First, it advances knowledge of Nordic sport and outdoor life, as important fields of social activity in their own rights. Second, it enhances the understanding of the ‘Nordic model’ of society, and the ways in which this is constructed, explored and challenged within and through sport and outdoor life activities. In doing so, the contributors explore a range of key themes, notably: how modern Nordic sport and outdoor life activities emerged and are organized through specific social policies; how they may challenge or harbour forms of social exclusion, particularly in regard to gender or minority populations; how they are affected by, and respond to, deviant practices such as doping; how they may contribute to alleviating social problems; and how they confront major structural challenges and changes, such as the impacts of globalization and the continuing dominance of neoliberal economic policies. Interdisciplinary in approach, Sport, Outdoor Life and the Nordic World is essential reading for those studying Nordic sports and societies, and will also appeal to students, academics and wider readers with interests in sport studies, sociology, social policy, cultural studies, anthropology and public health. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

Author : Jörg Krieger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1957792507

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Athletics in the Nordic Countries by Jörg Krieger Pdf

Author : Sari Rauhamäki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Athletics
ISBN : 9515327164

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Sport and Substance Use in the Nordic Countries by Sari Rauhamäki Pdf

Author : Mihaly Szerovay,Arto Nevala,Hannu Itkonen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000900842

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Football in the Nordic Countries by Mihaly Szerovay,Arto Nevala,Hannu Itkonen Pdf

This book explores football culture, organisation and development in the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Norway. These countries represent an important case study in sport culture, policy and management, being shaped by unique traditions in their civil society and in social welfare and public policy. The first part of the book explores the development path of football in each country, looking at how football arrived in Scandinavia and how it has been transformed from a voluntary civic activity into a professional sport while becoming closely attached to the global football system. The second part highlights key issues – including historical, contemporary and critical aspects – across three themes: professionalisation and changing practices; equality and gender; and supporters, audiences and culture. Written by a team of authors with a blend of experience as academics and practitioners in football, the book traces the contours of the distinctive Nordic model that occupies a prominent position in the global football system. Shining fascinating new light on the relationship between football and wider society, this is invaluable reading for students and researchers interested in football, sport management, sport policy, or the history, culture or sociology of sport and for anyone involved in the game.

Author : Jörg Krieger
Publisher : Common Ground Research Networks
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781957792521

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Athletics in the Nordic Countries by Jörg Krieger Pdf

In the edited collection Athletics in the Nordic Countries, scholars from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden explore historical developments and current phenomena in the sport of athletics (track and field). The chapters provide insight into sport officials, events, and athletes from the Nordic countries that have shaped the international athletics scene. The authors identify the leading role of sport leaders from Scandinavia in the foundation years and highlight how athletics’ events held in the region were milestones in the transformation of the sport. Athletics’ international governing body World Athletics was founded in Sweden in 1912 as the International Amateur Athletic Federation. Seventy years later, Finland hosted the first World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1983. In between those turning points, Nordic officials and athletes promoted significant changes in athletics, and their innovative approaches continue to shape the development of the sport until today.

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander,Anna Lund,Andrea Voyer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509539475

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The Nordic Civil Sphere by Jeffrey C. Alexander,Anna Lund,Andrea Voyer Pdf

The civil sphere is a distinctively democratic field in modern societies, one that sustains universalizing cultural aspirations and organizational structures and that has tense and uncertain boundaries with other spheres of social life, like the economy, religion, family, and state. Unlike the latter, which are more particularistic and hierarchical in character, the civil sphere defines itself in terms of solidarity – the feeling of being connected with every other person in the collectivity. The utopian ideals of democratic solidarity shape every modern society, even if they are often compromised by the messy realities of social life. This volume uses the theory of the civil sphere to shed new light on Nordic societies, while at the same time drawing on the distinctive experiences of the Nordic nations to reflect on and advance the theory of the civil sphere. Nordic societies have long been admired for creating a distinctive form of social democracy, but this admirable achievement has not been well conceptualized theoretically. Most attempts to explain Nordic social democracy focus on material and organizational factors. This volume, by contrast, emphasizes the cultural foundations and characteristics of social democracy, demonstrating how civil sensibilities are necessary for the creation of an egalitarian and democratic state. Nordic civil spheres, however, are not only pro-civil but also white in color, European in ethnicity, secular in character and gender-equal in a subtly restrictive manner. Such primordialization of state civility is vividly on display in the sometime tense relationships that develop among natives and “foreigners” in Nordic countries, relationships that expose the primordial undersides of the social democratic codes and civil values that constitute the Nordic civil sphere. A major contribution to the theory of the civil sphere and to our understanding of the cultural and normative underpinnings of social and political life, this volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars of sociology and politics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Professional sports
ISBN : 8215019390

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Nordic Elite Sport by Anonim Pdf

Om forskelle og ligheder i eliteidrættens vilkår og strukturer i Danmark, Finland, Norge og Sverige

Author : Eivind Å. Skille
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000599275

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Indigenous Sport and Nation-Building by Eivind Å. Skille Pdf

This book investigates the social, political, and cultural dimensions of Indigenous sport and nation-building. Focusing on the Indigenous Sámi of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, it addresses how colonization variously impacts organizational arrangements and everyday sporting life in a modern world. Through detailed case data from the Norwegian side of Sápmi (the land of the Sámi), this book provides a critical and contemporary perspective of post-colonial influences and their impacts on sport. The study uses concepts of conventions, citizenship and communities, to examine the tenuous roles of Indigenous-based sport organizations and clubs towards the building of an Indigenous nation. The book further draws together international, national, and local Sámi experiences to address the communal and assimilative influences that sport brings for people in the North Calotte. Taken together, the book signals the importance of sport in future community development and the (re)emergence of Indigenous culture. Appealing to policy makers and scholars alike, the book will be of particular interest to researchers in sport sociology, Indigenous studies and post colonialism. It also provides essential insight for public officials and administrators of sport and/or Indigenous issues at various levels of public office. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Caroline van Lindert,Jeroen Scheerder,Ian Brittain
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9783031217593

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The Palgrave Handbook of Disability Sport in Europe by Caroline van Lindert,Jeroen Scheerder,Ian Brittain Pdf

This handbook explores the various ways in which disability sport is governed and organised across Europe, as well as examining the extent to which persons with a disability participate in sport at the grassroots level. Based upon a solid theoretical framework and up-to-date data, the 19 country-specific chapters in this handbook give a comparative overview of the structuring, steering and supporting elements of disability sport policy and sport participation levels amongst persons with a disability, as well as the extent to which countries adopt policies to promote inclusion in sport in this population. A multitude of authors also identify the various methods and challenges in collecting sport participation data with regard to persons with a disability. This handbook will be a valuable resource for academic study across a range of sport and disability related programs, as well as a point of reference for researchers and policymakers working in this area.

Author : Anna-Maria Strittmatter,Josef Fahlén,Barrie Houlihan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000511888

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Stakeholder Analysis and Sport Organisations by Anna-Maria Strittmatter,Josef Fahlén,Barrie Houlihan Pdf

This book provides a critical examination of the origins and development of stakeholder theory within sport management research and expands the existing literature by providing insights on stakeholding in sport from various perspectives, such as governance, communication and marketing. Examining cases from around the world and from a wide range of different sporting contexts, each chapter reflects on key insights derived from stakeholder theory before offering an analysis of the limitations of the theory and the ways in which it might be fruitfully extended or developed. It offers suggestions on how the literature on stakeholding in sport can be advanced in order to provide knowledge relevant not only to sport studies but also to organisation theory more broadly and points to future avenues of inquiry in order to extend the reach of stakeholder theory and other inter-organisational perspectives in sport management research. Stakeholder Analysis and Sport Organisations is fascinating reading for any advanced student, researcher, policy-maker or practitioner with an interest in sport management, sport governance, sport development or organisational theory.