Tag: David Ekholm

With sport sustaining a prominent place in international development policymaking, discourse and delivery, the collected volume Handbook of Sport and International Development (Edward Elgar) investigates the role that different sport initiatives – from community-focused projects to large-scale events – can play across a great variety of development contexts. Our reviewers Derrick Charway and Umair Asif are appreciative of the comprehensive approach and they find the critical stance vital to combat the narratives about the “inherent purity and goodness of sport” (Coakley).

I Bollen i rörelse: Tjejfotboll, fostran och normkritik i den urbana periferin av David Ekholm, Ulrika Wernesjö & Magnus Dahlstedt (Linköpings universitet) studeras ett integrationsinitiativ, Bollen, i en mellansvensk stad, vars syfte och ambition handlar om att integrera unga invandrartjejer genom fotbollsspel. I boken presenteras och analyseras Bollen-initiativet utifrån en diskussion om idrottens potential för att lösa samhällsproblem. Vår recensent Anders Östnäs imponeras av såväl integrationsinitiativet som forskningsstudien av det.

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.

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: What’s at play? Power, transnational coaches and the global hegemony of performance within Danish elite swimming by Jørgen Bagger Kjær & Sine Agergaard.

Det har blivit allt vanligare att se idrott som en lösning på problem som följer i spåren av segregation och ojämlikhet. I antologin Idrottens kraft? Ungas livsvillkor och ojämlikhetens problem i en segregerad stad av Magnus Dahlstedt och David Ekholm, studeras idrottens potential när det gäller att lösa sociala problem mot bakgrund av tre idrottsbaserade interventioner i en medelstor svensk stad. Jørn Hansen får en helgjuten bild av de problem som följer på en instrumentell användning av idrott som social problemlösare.

With her new anthology, Social Innovation in Sport (Palgrave Macmillan), Anne Tjönndal aims at providing fresh insights on how social innovations are utilized as strategies to make sport more accessible and inclusive. Our reviewer Alan Bairner is doubtful however, seeing sport’s adaptability to change as more often than not driven by market logics, since sport, he claims, is inherently conservative, reactionary even, in its refusal to change its core values and renew its traditional hierarchies.

Sport, Education and Society encourages contributions from social scientists and educationalists studying the relationships between pedagogy, ‘the body’ and society, The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ENGAGING WITH UNCERTAINTY IN ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT – ORCHESTRATING TALENT DEVELOPMENT THROUGH INCREMENTAL LEADERSHIP by Christian Thue Bjørndal & Lars Tore Ronglan.

JSFD’s mission is to examine, advance and disseminate evidence, best practices, and lessons learned from Sport for Development programmes and interventions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: CONCEPTUALIZING PARTICIPATORY EVALUATION IN SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT: A RESEARCHER’S PERSPECTIVE ON PROCESSES AND TENSIONS FROM VIETNAM by Michael Dao.

Social Inclusion is a peer-reviewed open access journal, which provides academics and policy-makers with a forum to discuss and promote a more socially inclusive society. The journal encourages researchers to publish their results on topics related to social and cultural inclusion The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: (RE)FORMING THE INSIDE/OUTSIDE: ON PLACE AS A GOVERNABLE DOMAIN THROUGH SPORTS-BASED INTERVENTIONS by David Ekholm and Magnus Dahlstedt.

JSSI brings you the latest research, discussion and analysis on contemporary sport issues. In JSSI scholars study the impact of sport on social issues from many perspectives. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: A MODEL OF DISCIPLINE: THE RULE(S) OF MIDNIGHT FOOTBALL AND THE PRODUCTION OF ORDER IN SUBJECTS AND SOCIETY by David Ekholm and Magnus Dahlstedt (open cress).