Tag: Susanne Ravn

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health is a landmark publication – it is the first international journal solely dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of qualitative research in the sport, exercise, and health sciences. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Easy as riding a bike? Bicycling competence as (re)learning to negotiate space by Stephanie Sersli, Maya Gislason, Nicholas Scott & Meghan Winters.

The collected volume Krop og bevægelse i idræt og sundhed: Kulturanalytiske tilgange [Body and movement in sports and health: Cultural analytical approaches], edited by Susanne Ravn and Signe Højbjerre Larsen (Syddansk Universitetsforlag), offers an introduction to the various forms of cultural analytical traditions that characterize Danish as well as international research environments. Our reviewer is Frida Wågan, and she is, bar minor reservations, very appreciative in her informative review,

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health is a landmark publication – it is the first international journal solely dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of qualitative research in the sport, exercise, and health sciences. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: THE WELLBEING BENEFITS OF SEA SWIMMING. IS IT TIME TO REVISIT THE SEA CURE? by Hannah Denton & Kay Aranda.

Susanne Ravn is an Associate professor and Head of ‘Movement, Culture and Society’, a research unit at the University of Southern Denmark. In her research, she focuses on phenomenological approaches to skilled movement in dance practice. She is the author of several books in Danish and English and has published her research in journals focusing on phenomenology, qualitative research methods in sport, exercise and health, dance research and sociological analysis of embodied experiences.

I antologin Dans 22: Bevægelse, koreografi og performance, sammanställd av Mie Lykke Nielsen och utgiven av Frydenlund, ges inspiration till 22 danser som alla kan ingå i dans- och idrottsämnen på landets gymnasieskolor. Märtha Gripson, som diskuterade 2016 på avhandlingen Positioner i dans: Om genus, handlingsutrymme och dansrörelser i grundskolans praktik, är vår kunniga, och väldigt nöjda, recensent.

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 article by Susanne Ravn and Karsten Elmose-Østerlund sets out to investigate: a) the extent to which cooperative dance practices organised around a performance foster interpersonal relationships among the participants compared with the fostering of interpersonal relationships in different sports activities, and b) which cooperative aspects of such dance practices are of importance for the fostering of interpersonal relationships.

Tidsskriftet Forum for Idræt er en online publikation, der udgiver forskning, formidling og debat om idræt inden for det samfundsvidenskabelige og humanistiske fagområde. Foreningen bag tidsskriftet, Forum for Idræt, Historie og Samfund (FIHS), har eksisteret siden 1985. Indtil en navneændring i 2007 var foreningen kendt under navnet Dansk Idrætshistorisk Forening – Krop og Kultur.

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.

In this hardcover representation of a 2016 special issue of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, Norwegian philosopher Gunnar Breivik leads a pack of mostly Scandinavian sport philosophy scholars in a discussion of the role of skills, knowledge and intentionality in sporting contexts. Mikael Lindfelt har read Skills, Knowledge and Expertise in Sport (Routledge) and helps us unravel the main threads in a volume of solid philosophy.