Tag: Håkan Larsson

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: Open water swimmer Sally Bauer – a star but not a heroine by Claes Annerstedt & Marie Annerstedt (open access).

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: Matrices of (dis)advantage – school segregation and social inequities in adolescent physical activity from an intersectionality approach by Sara Hoy, Carolina Lunde, Håkan Larsson, Örjan Ekblom, Björg Helgadóttir & Gisela Nyberg (open access).

EPER is a journal that stimulates and presents scholarly enquiry in the broad field of physical education, including sport and leisure issues and research. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Meaningful physical education: Towards an embodied pedagogy by Esben Stilund Volshøj, Kenneth Aggerholm, Stephanie Beni and Kasper Lasthein Madsen.

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.

SSJ publishes original research, framed by social theory, on exercise, sport, physical culture, and the (physically active) body. The journal publishes peer-reviewed empirical, theoretical, and position papers; book reviews; and critical essays. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Community as the Concession: The Construction and Maintenance of Trans Exclusionary Binaries in Australian Sport by Connor MacDonald (open access).

The purpose of PESP is to provide a forum for high quality educational research for a national and international readership. We intend this research to have a high impact on both policy and practice. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Assessment for and of learning in nonlinear movement education practices by B. Tolgfors, D. Barker, G. Nyberg & H. Larsson (open access).

Research that investigates the impact of heteronormativity on physical education (PE) is extensive. In this peer review article, Kristin Vindhol Evensen, Håkan Larsson and Elisa Strømman expand previous knowledge that describes PE as heteronormative, binary, and hierarchical by offering phenomenological analyses of transgender people’s experiences of PE. Where previous research has focused on structural binary arrangements in PE, this article describes the embodied experiences of such arrangements.

Håkan Larsson’s new book, Gender Performativity in Sports and Physical Education (Common Ground) explores a perspective of gender called gender "performativity," coined by Judith Butler in the early 1990s. It starts from the idea that gender is something people do rather than something they are. Karin S. Lindelöf finds Larsson’s application of Butler on sports and physical education of great interest, presenting important theoretical concepts in a comprehensible way. The book, she concludes, is political in the best academic way: aiming to promote change.

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.

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: How did we get here; a historical and social exploration of the construction of English FA coach education by Reece Chapman, Ed Cope, Dave Richardson, Martin Littlewood & Colum Cronin (open access).