Tag: Stefan Holmlid
Relevant og interessant antologi der i analysen løfter sig op på et fornemt refleksionsniveau
Det har blivit allt vanligare att se idrott som en lösning på problem som följer i spåren av segregation och ojämlikhet. I antologin Idrottens kraft? Ungas livsvillkor och ojämlikhetens problem i en segregerad stad av Magnus Dahlstedt och David Ekholm, studeras idrottens potential när det gäller att lösa sociala problem mot bakgrund av tre idrottsbaserade interventioner i en medelstor svensk stad. Jørn Hansen får en helgjuten bild av de problem som följer på en instrumentell användning av idrott som social problemlösare.
Social sporting innovations from Hogwarts to Bruges
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.
Journal of Sport for Development, Vol. 8, 2020, Issue 14
JSFD’s mission is to examine, advance and disseminate evidence, best practices, and lessons learned from Sport for Development programmes and interventions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: CONCEPTUALIZING PARTICIPATORY EVALUATION IN SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT: A RESEARCHER’S PERSPECTIVE ON PROCESSES AND TENSIONS FROM VIETNAM by Michael Dao.