Sport Scholar Profile | Greta Bladh | Mid Sweden University

Position

• Ph.D in gender studies, lecturer and postdoctoral researcher in sociology

Contact

• Department of human and social sciences, Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall
• E-mail

Research interests

With a degree in gender studies, I have taken an interest in what ways gender norms both enables and disables our moving bodies within sporting practices, such as within gym culture. As such, issues concerning inclusion and exclusion have been a focal point of departure, which also extends to a current project concerning public outdoor gyms in Sweden.

Selected publications

Bladh, Greta Helen. 2022. “Spatial Bodies: Vulnerable Inclusiveness within Gyms and Fitness Venues in Sweden” Social Sciences 11, no. 10: 455. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11100455 (Peer-reviewed article)

Bladh, Greta (2020). Moving thresholds: Body narratives within the vicinity of gym and Fitness Culture [Trösklar i rörelse: kroppsnarrativ i närheten av gym och fitness]. Malmö: Bokförlaget idrottsforum.org (PhD dissertation)

On idrottsforum.org

Hållbar idrott i skola och samhälle: Rapport från SVEBI-konferensen i Växjö, 11–12 november 2015 (feature, with Daniel Bjärsholm and Isak Lidström, published in Swedish 151127)

Hard Body 2.0 – The Construction of the Fitness Subject: An Analysis of Swedish Fitness Blogs (article, published in English 150224)

A Contemporary History of Women’s Sport, Part One: Sporting Women, 1850–1960Jean Williams Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2014 (book review, published in English 150322)

Sport, Gender and Power: The Rise of Roller Derby. Gender, Bodies and Transformation Adele Pavlidis & Simone Fullagar Aldershot, Hamps.: Ashgate Publishing 2014 (book review, published in English 151028)

Gender, Sport, and the Role of Alter Ego in Roller Derby Colleen Arendt Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2019 (book review, published in English 190312)

The History of Physical Culture Conor Heffernan Champaign, IL: Common Ground 2022 (review in English by Greta Bladh, published 230608)

Women in Snowboarding Mari Kristin Sisjord Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2023 (review in English by Greta Bladh, published 240514)

Published 2024-05-27