Tag: Jesper Andreasson

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines 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.

Kvinnor i rampljuset, och inte minst framgångsrika idrottskvinnor utsätts dagligen och stundligen för olika former av näthat, oftast med kommentarer av sexuell natur, inte sällan med öppna hot. En som vägrat att stillatigande utsättas för hot och kränkningar är handbollsstjärnan Linnea Claeson. Hennes motstånd diskuteras i den här artikeln av Cecilia Forss och Jesper Andreasson.

Morten Renslo Sandvik has read two books by Jesper Andreasson and Thomas Johansson, Fitnessrevolutionen: Kropp, hälsa och gymkulturens globalisering (Carlssons) and The Global Gym: Gender, Health and Pedagogies (Palgrave Macmillan), which together add up to a valuable account of the contemporary global fitness culture.

This article is published in Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum (SSSF), a refereed, online and open access, academic journal for the study of sports in society, with a multi-disciplinary approach. SSSF is published by Malmö University as a companion to idrottsforum.org.

Based on an an ethnographic study of Swedish bodybuilders, Jesper Andreasson presents a sociological understanding of various circumstances influencing the decision to begin taking performance-enhancing drugs. Published in idrottsforum.org’s refereed sister publication Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum.

Ingela Kolfjord Hälsa och samhälle, Malmö högskolaJesper Andreasson Idrottens kön: Genus, kropp och sexualitet i lagidrottens vardag 267 sidor, hft. Lund: Sociologiska institutionen, Lunds universitet 2006 (Lund Dissertations...