Tag: Anne Tjønndal

I den här artikeln använder Anne Tjønndal, Arve Hjelseth och Verena Lenneis Guttmanns sju kännetecken för moderna idrotter för att diskutera den sportifieringsprocess som skateboard genomgår i takt med sportens växande popularitet. Empiriskt utgår artikeln från att skateboard ingår i det olympiska programmet i Tokyo 2020, och hur det har lett till ökad organisering och byråkratisering av skateboard i Norge.

Dominic Malcolm, sociologist at Loughborough University, UK with an impressive list of books and articles to his name, takes a critical look at modern sports medicin in Sport, Medicine and Health: The Medicalization of Sport? (Routledge). Anne Tjønndal has read Malcolm’s “solid piece of scientific work”, and she found the chapter on concussions in sports of particular interest.

The Sociology of Sport Journal (SSJ) publishes original research, framed by social theory, on exercise, sport, physical culture, and the (physically active) body. The purpose of SSJ is to stimulate and communicate research, critical thought, and theory development on issues pertaining to the sociology of sport. The journal publishes peer-reviewed empirical, theoretical, and position papers; book reviews; and critical essays.

The International Review for the Sociology of Sport is a peer reviewed academic journal. Its main purpose is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, from standard length research papers to shorter reports and commentary, as well as book and media reviews.

Reinhard Stelter, sport psychology professor at University of Copenhagen’s Dept. of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, develops his coaching ideas in The Art of the Dialogue in Coaching: Towards Transformative Exchange (Routledge). Anne Tjønndal finds few references to sports, but she thinks nonetheless that the book can be a useful tool for sports coaches.

In his book I fight for a Living: Boxing and the battle for black manhood 1880–1915 (University of Illinois Press), Louis Moore draws on the fact that boxing was one of the few trades where an African American man could win renown. Though Anne Tjønndal, academic, boxer, and reviewer, finds it hard to keep track of all the boxers and their matches, she appreciates the sociological observations throughout the book.

Sport in History is a history journal that publishes original, archivally-based research on the history of sport, leisure and recreation. The journal encourages the study of sport to illuminate broader historical issues and debates. Includes an extensive reviews section.

Anne Tjønndal reviews an edited volume from Palgrave Macmillan, Sport and Social Entrepreneurship in Sweden by Tomas Peterson & Katarina Schenker. Our reviewer hails the study as an important contribution to the scholarly field of social innovation and entrepreneurship in sport, but she has serious misgivings about some of the concluding theses.

Launched in 2010, this double-blind peer-reviewed journal seeks to advance knowledge in the field of events and to enhance the uptake of such knowledge by practitioners in the field. Whilst publishing theoretical and practical articles, articles will include a section on how the findings can be adopted by practitioners in the field.

Studien har et multippelt casestudiedesign og består av 4 case. Case 1 handler om inklusjon i toppidrett, case 2 om inklusjon i breddeidrett, case 3 om inkludering gjennom samarbeid mellom offentlig og frivillig sektor i utviklingen av aktivitetstilbud, og case 4 om inkludering gjennom nye idrettsaktiviteter. Hvert case utgjør en artikkel i avhandlingen.