Tag: Eivind Å. Skille

The main purpose of the Journal is to provide a central point for the publication and dissemination of research and scholarship on adventure and the ‘outdoors’ as media for learning as well as recreation. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Friluftsliv and olggonastin – multiple and complex nature cultures by Eivind Å. Skille, Steinar Pedersen & Øystein Skille (open access).

Eivind Å. Skille’s Indigenous Sport and Nation-Building: Interrogating Sámi Sport and Beyond (Routledge) investigates the social, political, and cultural dimensions of Indigenous sport and nation-building, focusing on the Indigenous Sámi of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Our reviewer Malcolm MacLean appreciates the tripartite structure of the study with The Club as a central analytical site, while also pointing out that the poorly developed notions of colonization and coloniality has consequences for the overall analysis.

Presenting case studies from around the world, including from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, Mariann Vaczi & Alan Bairner’s edited collection Indigenous, Traditional, and Folk Sports: Contesting Modernities draws on multidisciplinary work from sociology, anthropology, history, cultural studies, and political science. Our knowledgeable reviewer Helge Chr. Pedersen finds theoretical ambiguities and inconsistencies, but still concludes that the book is a valuable and wide-ranging contribution to the field of sport and cultural studies.

EJSS’ function is to enable an international discussion about current issues and to foster collaboration between researchers from all social scientific sub-disciplines. It’s published 4 times per year. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘It’s not just you come into the gym and do your weight training’: a narrative exploration of muscularity’s role as identity capital by Ieuan Cranswick, David Richardson, Martin Littlewood & David Tod (open access).

Against the backdrop of the recent and renewed political and policy interest in the safety and security in European football contexts, Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen produces an updated empirical but theoretically informed account of how insecurities in football have been responded to in his book Insecurities in European Football and Supporter Cultures (Routledge). Eivind Skille is largely positive to the author’s efforts; impressed by the theoretical groundwork and appreciative of the empirical studies, but he would have liked to see an elevated analysis and a further elaborated conclusion.

IRSS is a peer reviewed academic journal. Its main purpose is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, as well as book and media reviews. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Collective sports success through effective social performances: The case of Olympic wrestling in Iran by Saeed Shamshirian and Vidar Halldorsson (open access).

Med bakgrunn i idrettssosiologiske studier av organisasjonsendringer som belyser «high impact systems» og analytisk tuftet på teorier om institusjonelt lederskap og institusjonelt arbeid, undersøker Eivind Skille i denne artikkelen hvordan frivillige norske fotballklubber forholder seg til private fotballakademier. 16 intervjuer med representanter for seks frivillige fotballklubber utgjorde det empiriske grunnlaget, hvorav det ble identifisert to overordnede og sammenvevde funn som presenteres og diskuteres i artikkelen.

Inspired by sport studies into organizational change focusing on ‘high impact systems’ and analytically founded on theories into institutional leadership and institutional work, Eivind Skille’s paper investigates how voluntary Norwegian football clubs interpret and act upon private football academies. Empirically based on 16 interviews with representatives of six voluntary football clubs, two overarching and intertwined findings were identified and presented and discussed in the article.

The main purpose of the Journal is to provide a central point for the publication and dissemination of research and scholarship on adventure and the ‘outdoors’ as media for learning as well as recreation. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Differences in epistemological beliefs in a group of high-level UK based caving, mountaineering and rock-climbing instructors by Martin Barry, Loel Collins & David Grecic (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).