Tag: Mads Skauge

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.

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.

I den här featureartikeln sammanfattar Mads Skauge och Arve Hjelseth sitt kapitel i Idrett, kjønn og ledelse: Festskrift til Jorid Hovden (Anne Tjønndal, red.), i vilken de appliceraren en uppsättning teoretiska verktyg för att problematisera de tydliga skillnaderna i idrottsdeltagande. De diskuterar hur förtrolighet med idrottens konkurrenslogik och idrottsligt föräldraengagemang kan bidra till den socioekonomiska ojämlikheten i ungdomsidrott.

In this feature article, Mads Skauge and Arve Hjelseth summarize their chapter in Idrett, kjønn og ledelse: Festskrift til Jorid Hovden [Sport, gender and leadership: Festschrift in honor of Jorid Hovden] (Anne Tjønndal, ed.) in which they apply a set of theoretical concepts to discuss how familiarity with sport’s competitive logic and sports parental involvement can contribute to the socioeconomic inequality in youth sports.

With her new anthology, Social Innovation in Sport (Palgrave Macmillan), Anne Tjönndal aims at providing fresh insights on how social innovations are utilized as strategies to make sport more accessible and inclusive. Our reviewer Alan Bairner is doubtful however, seeing sport’s adaptability to change as more often than not driven by market logics, since sport, he claims, is inherently conservative, reactionary even, in its refusal to change its core values and renew its traditional hierarchies.

I den här featureartikeln sammanfattar Mads Skauge och Arvid Hjelseth sin senaste forskningsstudie publlcerad i Nordisk tidsskrift förungdomsforskning, i vilken de undersöker vad som ligger bakom att ungdomar lämnar den organiserade idrotten i de senare tonåren, med särskild uppmärksamhet på skolarbetets roll och på skillnader mellan minoritets- och majoritetsungdom.

In this feature article, Mads Skauge and Arve Hjelseth summarize their recent article from Nordisk tidsskrift for ungdomsforskning (the Norwegian Journal of Youth Studies) in which they examine what lies behind young people leaving organized sports in their late teens, with special attention to the role of school homework and on differences between minority and majority youth.

I den här featureartikeln sammanfattar Mads Skauge och Kolbjørn Rafoss sin senaste foskningsstudie publlcerad i Tidsskrift för kjønnsforskning, där de undersöker skillnader i pojkars och flickors motiv för träning och deltagande i idrottsföreningar, gym och egenorganiserad träning. Med utgångspunkt i Giddens’ reflexivitetskoncept och Bourdieus habitusbegrepp diskuteras hur skillnader i träningsmotiv kan förklaras som uttryck för könade identitetsprojekt och könshabitus.

In this feature article, Mads Skauge and Kolbjørn Rafoss summarize their recent article from Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning (the Norwegian Journal of Gender Studies) in which they report a major study that examines differences in boys’ and girls’ exercise motives and participation in sports clubs, fitness gyms and self-organized exercise, drawing on Giddens’ concept of reflexivity and Bourdieu’s notion of gendered habitus.

In this feature article, Anne Tjønndal and Mads Skauge summarize their recent article from Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health in which they argue that eSports is gaining considerable and increasing prominence in Norwegian sports, in spite of not being formally recognized by the national sports confederation. However, local sports clubs as well as high school sports programs are openly encouraging participation in eSports.