Tag: Marie Larneby

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: Investigating the climate vulnerability of North American ultra-endurance running events by Lance Warwick, Jonathan R. Oliveira & Mikihiro Sato.

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.

Sport History Review encourages the submission of scholarly articles, methodological and research notes, and commentaries. SHR encourages graduate students and young professionals to submit their work for publication. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “I Live With and By Nature”: Swedish Alpine Skiers Reflect on Professional and Lifestyle Skiing, Nature, and Snow, 1964–2023 by Marie Larneby (open access).

In Sport, Performance and Sustainability, an open access volume edited by Svensson, Backman, Hedenborg & Sörlin (Routledge), the authors examine the logic of ‘faster, higher, and stronger’ and the technoscientific revolution behind the tremendous growth in sport performance over the last 100 years. Our reviewer Benjamin Mole commends the choice of Guttmann’s sportification concept as the starting point and finds much in the analyses to appreciate. Some critical observations notwithstanding, he hails the book for moving the discussion of sporting logics forward.

The aim of Lukas Linnér’s PhD thesis Dual Careers of Swedish University Student-Athletes: A Synthesis of Holistic Developmental and Ecological Approaches has been to study the dual career experiences of Swedish university student-athletes from the holistic developmental and the holistic ecological approaches. Marie Larneby has read the thesis on our behalf, and her thorough review shows that Linnér grasps the complexity and nuances of university student-athletes’ dual career and the need for balancing competing demands.

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.

In Sports Crazy: How Sports Are Sabotaging American Schools (University Press of Mississippi), Steven J. Overman exposes the excesses of middle and high school sports and the detrimental effects the obsession with sports has on American education. Our reviewer Marie Larneby has a keen interest in student-athlete issues, and she read Overman’s book with great interest and found his analyses relevant way beyond the American systems of school and sports.

I maj 2020 disputerade Marie Larneby på avhandlingen Vi och de andra: Om idrott, genus och normer på en idrottsprofilerad högstadieskola (Malmö universitet). Avhandlingen beskriver och problematiserar normativa mönster relaterade till idrott och kön vid en idrottsprofilerad grundskola, och diskuterar vilka konsekvenser dessa mönster kan ha för idrottseleverna. I sin recension redovisar Mari Kristin Sisjord Marie Larnebys gedigna forskningsinsats och lyfter fram studiens teoretiska ramverk, grundliga empiri, och omfattande resultatredovisning.

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: To move on… – a comparative study of Swedish adolescents in a changing sport and leisure-time landscape by Suzanne Lundvall & Britta Thedin Jakobsson (open access).