Tag: Arve Hjelseth
Sport in Society, Volume 27, 2024, Issue 12 | Professionalisation of sport coaching from a Scandinavian horizon
Academics in various disciplines are writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Coaching by doing: communities of practice at Swedish sport schools in XC skiing since the 1970s by Daniel Svensson (open access).
An exemplary collection that captures the essence and intricacies of Nordic football culture
Mihaly Szerovay and colleagues’ edited collection Football in the Nordic Countries: Practices, Equality and Influence (Routledge) explores football culture, organisation and development in the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Norway. To our reviewer Payam Ansari, the anthology offers a rich, multifaceted exploration of football on national, “glocal”, and global levels, making it a valuable addition to the field of sports sociology and a beacon for future research on football.
Beneficial collection where the sum of its parts is greater than the whole
Roberts, Whigham, Culvin & Parnell’s edited collection Critical Issues in Football: A Sociological Analysis of the Beautiful Game (Routledge) sheds critical new light on key issues in contemporary football, with each chapter using a different theoretical lens. This leads our reviewer Arve Hjelseth to commending the inclusion of major sociological thinkers, but also to the conclusion that the book, which he considers a useful addition to the critical study of football, is not ‘a sociological analysis’ but rather many analyses. And that’s football for you.
Discursive struggles in the gendering of national team pay in Norwegian football
In 2017, the Norwegian Football Federation (NFF) decided to offer the men’s and the women’s national teams an equal share of the revenue from the federation’s sponsorship deals. This was regarded as a groundbreaking event in the history of women’s football. This peer review article by Arve Hjelseth and Jorid Hovden examines the process that led to this result by exploring the discourses of gender justice negotiated in the process.
Soccer & Society, Volume 24, 2023, Issue 3 | Nordic football: local and global impact, influences and images
Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Zlatan Ibrahimović: a monument and a mirror of his times(b> by Roger Johansson, Per-Markku Ristilammi & Helena Tolvhed (open access).
This book helps fans understand football as the powerful popular culture product it constitutes
From the FIFA World Cup to pick-up games at your local park, soccer is the closest thing in our world to a universal entertainment. Andrew M. Guest’s Soccer in Mind: A thinking fan’s guide to the global game (Rutgers University Press) provides a guide to the world’s most popular game. We asked Arve Hjelseth for a review, and his reading has unearthed refreshing theoretical insights we might have forgotten, and an academic breadth so great that everyone learns at least something new.
Interessant om sponsorkongen Jacob Lund i en dårlig redigert biografi
Jacob Lund var en betydelsefull spelare i det norska idrottslivet i 25 år. Som DNB-koncernens sponsorchef från 1992 till 2012 investerade han mer än 2 miljarder norska kronor i norsk idrott. Lund har nu blivit föremål för en biografi, passande kallad Jacob Lund: Sponsorkongen (Jæren Forlag) och författad av journalisten Jørn Lekve. Arve Hjelseth har läs boken som han finner läsvärd och informativ, trots slapp redigering från förlagets sida.
Alternative forklaringer på sosioøkonomisk ulikhet i ungdomsidretten | Et sammendrag
I den här featureartikeln sammanfattar Mads Skauge och Arve Hjelseth sitt kapitel i Idrett, kjønn og ledelse: Festskrift til Jorid Hovden (Anne Tjønndal, red.), i vilken de appliceraren en uppsättning teoretiska verktyg för att problematisera de tydliga skillnaderna i idrottsdeltagande. De diskuterar hur förtrolighet med idrottens konkurrenslogik och idrottsligt föräldraengagemang kan bidra till den socioekonomiska ojämlikheten i ungdomsidrott.
Alternative Explanations for Socioeconomic Inequality in Youth Sports | A Summary
In this feature article, Mads Skauge and Arve Hjelseth summarize their chapter in Idrett, kjønn og ledelse: Festskrift til Jorid Hovden [Sport, gender and leadership: Festschrift in honor of Jorid Hovden] (Anne Tjønndal, ed.) in which they apply a set of theoretical concepts to discuss how familiarity with sport’s competitive logic and sports parental involvement can contribute to the socioeconomic inequality in youth sports.
Organisert idrett og skole som komplementære og konkurrerende arenaer: ulike mønstre for minoritets- og majoritetsungdom? Et sammendrag
I den här featureartikeln sammanfattar Mads Skauge och Arvid Hjelseth sin senaste forskningsstudie publlcerad i Nordisk tidsskrift förungdomsforskning, i vilken de undersöker vad som ligger bakom att ungdomar lämnar den organiserade idrotten i de senare tonåren, med särskild uppmärksamhet på skolarbetets roll och på skillnader mellan minoritets- och majoritetsungdom.
