Tag: Magnus Kilger

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.

This peer reviewed article by Magnus Kilger examines the long historical interest for the selection of young talented children in sports. The seemingly everlasting search for talents and the quest for the especially gifted is followed by the practice of trying to find and select the right individuals. This paper elucidates historical representations of talent and talent selection in a series of professional sports literature in Sweden.

The dissertation elucidates the discourse of selection and the process of selecting young sporting talents during final selection camps for youth national teams in football, hockey and floorball in Sweden. The aim is to analyze how talent selection is organizationally legitimized, how “selectability” is produced in interaction and how specific narratives are used in success stories.

This new peer reviewed article by Magnus Kilger and Mats Börjesson analyzes talent selection within Swedish sports. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which the process of legitimacy is produced in the case of children and adolescents.