Tag: Comfort Ankunda
Thought-provoking and solid, but in need of decolonial reflection
David Ekholm & Magnus Dahlstedt’s Sport as Social Policy: Midnight Football and the Governing of Society (Routledge) analyzes the increasing use of sport in European and Western welfare states as a tool of social policy and its promotion as a solution to social problems. Our reviewers, Comfort Ankunda and Robert Menge give a detailed presentation of the book’s chapters and offer a thorough and critical analysis of the theories and methods behind the intervention, pointing out several problems relating to the lack of decolonial perspectives.
Inclusion and sustainable practices: SVEBI Annual Conference 23–24 November 2023, University of Gothenburg
The 2023 Swedish Association for Behavioral and Social Science Sports Research (SVEBI) conference took place in the vibrant, timeless, and culturally rich city of Gothenburg (Göteborg). The University of Gothenburg’s Department of Nutrition and Sports Science provided the setting for the three-day conference, which gathered an impressive number of attendees, including leading sport social scientists from Sweden, together with educators, students, and practitioners – and indeed alongside those also participants from the Nordic countries, Europe and even Australia!
