Tag: Kristin Vindhol Evensen

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: “I bow down in awe of them…”: Sports awards for Paralympic athletes and Olympic athletes by Marte Bentzen & Kristin Vindhol Evensen.

In this peer reviewed article, Marte Bentzen and Kristin Vindhol Evensen present the results of an interesting research study of the Norwegian Sports Awards TV show, Idrettsgalla, with a specific eye to the differences in presentation of the awards for Parasports and for sports by able-bodied athletes, including a gender perspective. The use of jokes by presenters plays an informative and revealing role in the analysis, both in terms of gender and degree of ability.