Tag: Christian Tolstrup Jensen

The Swedish Association of Sports Historians (SVIF) publishes a yearbook, Idrott, historia & samhälle (Sports, History & Society) which is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal of sport history, published in Sweden for the Scandinavian market and beyond. The Forum Editor’s choice from the current issue: Taming or Revering Nature? Equestrian Sports as Mirror of Nature Perceptions in the Early 20th Century by Noemi Steuerwald (open access).

Politics, Social Issues and the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, edited by Danielle Sarver Coombs and Molly Yanity (Routledge) takes a close look at politics and social issues in the context of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup that took place in Australia and New Zealand and is one of the most attended women’s sporting events in history. Christian Tolstrup Jensen appreciates that the book takes a broad view on women’s football with a global perspective. He also notes that the Cup in fact plays a very limited role in many chapters.

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: Sport brand coexistence, competition and synergy: case study of the Sparta Prague ice hockey and football clubs by William Crossan, Jan Šíma & Michaela Kaprálková.

Molly Yanity and Danielle Sarver Coombs’ edited collection Media, Communication and the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup (Routledge) takes a close look at the themes of media and communication in the context of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, one of the most attended women’s sporting events in history. For our reviewer, sport event scholar Christian Tolstrup Jensen, the anthology’s value lies in the plurality of cases, the theories, and the diverse sources – in addition to being an analysis of a particular World Cup, a source for comparison with previous and future World Cups.

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport studies journal, welcomes articles that deal with sport and social change and social stability in a wide sense, articles about the profound and comprehensive processes affecting sport. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Does responsibility fall on the players or the sporting context? A study of the use of injury-prevention programmes in Swedish elite floorball clubs by Taru Tervo, Andreas Simensen & Staffan Karp (open access).

Idrottsforskaren Christian Tolstrup Jensen vid Malmö universitet släppte hösten 2024 en till det yttre oansenlig bok, Konkurrence (Aarhus Universitetsforlag). Att man inte ska döma en bok efter dess yttre framgår med all önskvärd tydlighet av Jan Ove Tangens långa och hyllande recension – det är helt enkelt en innehållsligt ansenlig bok. Vår recensent är ”berørt, begeistret og imponert over at Jensen klarer å formidle et så mangfoldig og komplisert tema på en så enkel og forståelig måte at selv ikke-akademikere vil kunne forstå og bli klokere av ved å lese boken”.

The Research Handbook on Major Sporting Events, edited by Harry Arne Solberg, Rasmus K. Storm and Kamilla Swart (Edward Elgar) examines the hosting of major sporting events and the impacts they can have on stakeholders. Christian Tolstrup Jensen has read an impressive compilation of scientific studies in the field of major sport event research that gives the initiated reader a useful and nuanced overview of the state-of-the-art in event studies, its understudied areas and a who-is-who in the field.

Christian Tolstrup Jensen’s paper analyses the development of the sport event policy in the case of Denmark, a small, Western country with no mega sport event hosting experience. Based on an analysis of archival documents, media coverage and interviews with representatives of sport federations, municipalities, and the organisations carrying out the event policy, the paper traces the start of the policy to 1994 when the Danish sport confederation (DIF) founded the Sports Foundation Denmark.

I boken Dansk idrætspolitik: Idrætten i Kulturministeriet gennem 50 år (Gads Forlag) berättar Claus Bøje & Søren Riiskjær idrottspolitikens historia sedan kulturministeriet började uppmärksamma idrotten i början av 1970-talet. Christian Tolstrup Jensen har läst boken med stort intresse, en av få som behandlar idrottspolitik på dansk nationell nivå. Han finner att dansk idrottspolitik definieras av förhållandet mellan staten och idrottsorganisationerna, ett förhållande som ofta förändras med ministrarnas politiska ståndpunkter.

Christian Tolstrup Jensen, PhD, is a sports historian affiliated with Malmö University where he currently works as a postdoc researcher at the Dept. of Sport Sciences. His current research focuses on sports events, but his interest in sport studies is varied and wide: Danish and Scandinavian sport history ranging from Norwegian ice hockey to Danish football; youth history and culture, and especially the history of the scout movement. An ongoing project revolves around sport events and their role and position in the Nordic countries.