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    Snart i mål: Artig og nyttig innføring i statistisk tenking i sportsperspektiv

    Christer Thranes bok Helt i mål. Lær statistisk tenkning med tall fra sportens verden (Humanist Forlag) gör till och med de med avancerad statistikångest kompetenta att bedöma trovärdigheten hos statistiskt nyhetsmaterial. Och det kräver inga förkunskaper. Idrottssociologen Mads Skauge har läst Thranes bok med behållning – om än ej okritiskt – och liksom Thrane drar han sig inte för att späcka sin text med idrottsmetaforer. Skojig läsning.

    Political Football: On the Politicisation of Football and Footballisation of Politics

    In his book The Politics of Football (Routledge), Christos Kassimeris examines the deep connections between football and politics and explains what those relationships can tell us about sport and wider society. With the game occupying a preeminent place on the world sporting stage, this book argues that the political significance of football has never been greater. And our reviewer Mads Skauge fully agrees. Football is important. Football is politics. He read the book as an introduction to football politics, and as such it is highly recommendable.

    Convincing collection, furthering the field of sociological esports studies

    Bringing together leading esports experts from Europe, North America, and Australia, Anne Tjønndal’s edited collection Social Issues in Esports (Routledge) provides new sociological analyses that define and locate esports in social studies. Kalle Jonasson, who wrote about esports on idrottsforum.org already back in 2005, is highly appreciative of Tjønndal’s book, notwithstanding the fact that he would have liked to see a bit more of conceptual and philosophical thinking around the social issues surrounding esports.

    Making Sense of Sport Economics

    Full of real-world cases and stories, Wray Vamplew’s Sports Economics for Non-Economists (Routledge) offers a short economic history of sport and explains the economic foundations of the world of sport today, from local leagues to mega-events. Sport sociologist Mads Skauge fits in the book’s target group, and his careful reading and thorough review shows that Vamplew fulfills his stated goal; Skauge himself is proof of this, and he recommends the book to his sport social science peers as well as to their students.

    “This book extends and expands our knowledge of how racism occurs and how it can be challenged”

    In Racism and English Football: For Club and Country (Routledge), Daniel Burdsey analyses the contemporary manifestations, outcomes and implications of the fractious relationship between English professional football and race. Our reviewer is football fanatic and sport sociologist Mads Skauge. He would have liked a bit more sociology of race in a book that otherwise is an essential read for those interested in the social and organizational dynamics of football – especially English.

    Opportunities to participate in sport and fitness: Individualization and inequality on the playing field

    In May 2022, Mads Skauge presented and defended his Ph.D. dissertation Non-levelled playing fields and the rise of fitness: Social inequality in late modern youth sport in Norway, which studies inequalities in organized youth sports and commercial fitness participation. We asked Marie Larneby to read his thesis, and her thorough review shows that Skauge, a few problems notwithstanding, adds new knowledge of participation patterns and opportunities in a rapidly changing society.

    European Journal for Sport and Society, Vol. 19, 2022, Issue 3

    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: Imagining the nation through football: German national self-stereotypes before, during and after the 2016 UEFA championship by ichael Mutz, Markus Gerke & Henk Erik Meier.

    Sport in Society, Volume 25, 2022, Issue 8

    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: Where do they all come from? Youth, fitness gyms, sport clubs and social inequality by Mads Skauge & Ørnulf Seippel.

    Public defence of doctoral thesis | Non-levelled playing fields and the rise of fitness: Social inequality in late modern youth sport in Norway | Mads Henrik Skauge Antonsen, Nord...

    Mads Skauge, frequent contributor to idrottsforum.org from early on in his PhD education, as a book reviewer, blogger and writer of a number of feature articles, has completed his dissertation, which is about social inequality in organised youth sport participation and the rise of fitness gyms. The inequality dimensions analysed are gender, social class and ethnicity with the aim to contribute to the understanding of inequality in sport and fitness participation.

    Football Fanatics: Explanatory Hypotheses, Developments, and Possible Threats for The Beautiful Game

    Although football is the greatest cultural phenomenon of our time, reflexive contributions digging into the possible reasons why we love football, whether football is important, and seemingly threats for the position of football as a globally loved game, are somewhat scarce. Against this backdrop, in this paper Mads Skauge tries to pinpoint some, of possibly many, explanatory hypotheses, developments and dark clouds on the football horizon.
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