Tag: Jonny Hjelm

The Beautiful Game Reimagined: Women’s Soccer in Brazil, edited by Lívia Gonçalves Magalhães, Tiago J. Fernandes Maranhão & Bernardo Buarque De Hollanda (Common Ground) challenges long-held notions of the country’s enduring football heritage by highlighting the influential and rapidly evolving sphere of women’s soccer. Jonny Hjelm finds a few flaws in the editorial work, which are however overshadowed by the strengths: the breadth of the subject, the intersectional perspective and some really good chapters coalesce to create valuable knowledge of women’s football in one of the major football nations.

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.

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.

Den 10 september 2021 försvarade Isak Lidström framgångsrikt sin doktorsavhandling i idrottsvetenskap, På skidor i kulturella gränsland: Samiska spår i skidsportens historia (Malmö universitet). I betygsnämnden satt bland andra historieprofessorn vid Umeå universitet Jonny Hjelm. Han var således väl placerad för att bli utvald att recensera Lidströms verk, och recensionen är en omfattande och kunnig genomgång och värdering som avhandlingen kommer ur med mer än äran i behåll.

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport study 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 sports such as professionalization, globalization, commercialization, urbanization, technologization, medicalization and juridification.

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport study 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 sports such as professionalization, globalization, commercialization, urbanization, technologization, medicalization and juridification.

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. We publish articles in English as well as in Scandinavian languages.

Syftet med denna fallstudie av en svensk fleridrottsförening är att ge kunskap om hur en stor förening ­– med 3 000 medlemmar, många organisationsnivåer, och relativt få medlemmar involverade i de formella beslutsorganen ­– fungerar som kollektiv beslutsorganisation. Har IF Stoor, som Sveriges politiker förväntade sig, blivit en skola i demokrati?

In a new peer reviewed article in Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, Jonny Hjelm presents his penetrating study of Swedish sports scholarship within social sciences and the humanities, 1970–2010. Based on analyses of 77 doctoral theses, Hjelm concludes that the general distaste for competitive sports that is evident, is rooted in leftist anti-market sentiments as well as a glorification of the virtue of play and games.

Jonny Hjelm, Professor of History at Umeå University, has a special interest in sport studies – studying sports, and studying sport studies. His Idrott, tävling och allvar: En kritisk granskning av svensk idrottsforskning offers critical analyses of a number of Swedish dissertations on sports and PE. Our reviewer is Erkki Vettenniemi.