Tag: Daniel Svensson

While football’s global reach is often highlighted as a positive thing that brings the world together, the beautiful game risks having a rather ugly impact on the planet. This is partly down to ambitious plans to expand almost every aspect of elite football – more money, more matches, more tournaments, more fans – that have accelerated over recent decades. In this article, originally published in The Conversation, Daniel Svensson shows that football is accelerating climate change through its problematic dependence on fossil-fuel sponsorship, but also how some European clubs are pointing the way to a more climate friendly game.

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: Investigating the climate vulnerability of North American ultra-endurance running events by Lance Warwick, Jonathan R. Oliveira & Mikihiro Sato.

Samhällsidrotten och idrottssamhället. Humanistisk och samhällsvetenskaplig idrottsforskning under 50 år [Sport in society and the society of sports. Humanistic and social science sports research over 50 years] is edited by Tomas Peterson and published as a celebration of 50 years of Swedish sport studies within the social sciences and humanities. We went abroad to find a suitable reviewer – not a Swede but Swedish speaking – and Ansgar Molzberger accepted the cumbersome task of reviewing this 556 page tome. And he did well, we are happy to bring his review to your attention.

Utviklingstrappa i langrenn [The Cross-Country Skiing Development Staircase] is a guide for young, promising skiers who want to realize their sporting potential. The book by Sandbakk and colleagues describes an appropriate, long-term development of athletes from childhood to reaching the top level of sports. For our reviewer Daniel Svensson it offers an important part of the answer to the eternal, and for many Swedes infernal question why Norwegian XC skiers are so much better, more skillful, than Swedish skiers, or for that matter, skiers from any other nation.

Sports Coaching Review is an international peer-reviewed medium for the publication of articles related to sports coaching. It aspires to be a major focal point for the publication of sports coaching research throughout the world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “Joseph Maigrot (1900-1983): a track and field coach who pioneered a French style of coaching” by Serge Vaucelle.

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: Två svenska pragmatiker formas: En jämförelse av Sven-Göran Erikssons och Pia Sundhages tränarfilosofier by Robert S. Primus, Daniel Svensson (open access)

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).

Sedan historikern Jan Lindroth disputerade med sin avhandling om idrotten som folkrörelse 1974 har det gått ett halvt sekel, och således firar svensk idrottsforskning sitt femtioårsjubileum 2024. Under perioden har idrottsvetenskap vuxit fram som ett nytt utbildnings-, forsknings- och forskarutbildningsämne. Idag finns det idrottsvetenskapliga institutioner eller motsvarande vid tio lärosäten, och fem av dem har forskarutbildning. Forskningsämnena, som från början var pedagogik, historia och psykologi, omfattar idag över trettio olika ämnesdiscipliner.

Annette R. Hofmann & Pascal Mamudou Camara’s edited collection Critical Perspectives on Esports (Routledge) offers new, multidisciplinary approaches to esports, one of the most rapidly growing sectors in the sports and leisure industries. Sociologist and esports expert Egil Trasti Rogstad has read the anthology carefully, and his review offers a thorough description and an insightful and critical analysis of the various perspectives that make up the book’s way of looking at esports.

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.