Tag: Thomas Johansson

SISU Förlags ambitiösa trebandsutgåva Sport Management 1–3, under redaktion av Åsa Bäckström, Karin Book, Bo Carlsson och PG Fahlström, får genomgående positiva omdömen av idrottsforum.orgs recensenter, Søren Bennike som recenserade del 1 i oktober 2019, och Julius Z. Strömberg i föreliggande recension av delarna 2 och 3. Strömberg efterlyser visserligen ett nordiskt perspektiv men ser inte den bristen som ett hinder för att använda böckerna när han lär ut sport management på Norges idrettshøgskole.

Fitness Doping: Trajectories, Gender, Bodies and Health by Jesper Andreasson & Thomas Johansson (Palgrave Macmillan) compiles several years of multi-faceted qualitative research on fitness doping to provide a fresh insight into how this phenomenon intersects with issues of gender, body and health. Our reviewer is Anders Schmidt Vinther, PhD student at Aarhus University and well versed in doping research. While he acknowleges original contributions to the field in the book, he also has several points of criticism.

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: NEGOTIATING FEMALE FITNESS DOPING: GENDER, IDENTITY AND TRANSGRESSIONS by Jesper Andreasson & Thomas Johansson.

Jesper Andreasson och Thomas Johansson fortsätter utforska kroppens sociologi och kroppskulturens strävan efter perfektion, nu i Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies: Gender, Identities and Bodies in Motion (Palgrave Macmillan). Vi skickade boken till Oskar Krantz vid Malmö universitet och bad om en recension, och försatte honom därmed i ett tillstånd av ambivalens och förvirring. Men det är bäst att han själv får berätta...

Journal of Sport and Social Issues (JSSI) brings you the latest research, discussion and analysis on contemporary sport issues. In JSSI scholars study the impact of sport on social issues from many perspectives, including Sociology, History, Economics, Media Studies, Gender Studies, Psychology, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Anthropology and Ethnic Studies.

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.

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines 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.

Leisure / Loisir strives to publish a diverse collection of scholarly papers in all areas of leisure, recreation, arts, parks, sport, and travel and tourism. Reflecting the multi- and interdisciplinary nature of these areas of study, the journal invites papers that use a wide range of perspectives and research methods.

The considerable growth of interest in commerce, media and politics and their relationship to sport in international academia has resulted in academics in various disciplines 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.

Morten Renslo Sandvik has read two books by Jesper Andreasson and Thomas Johansson, Fitnessrevolutionen: Kropp, hälsa och gymkulturens globalisering (Carlssons) and The Global Gym: Gender, Health and Pedagogies (Palgrave Macmillan), which together add up to a valuable account of the contemporary global fitness culture.