Åse Strandbu
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 275755 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Åse Strandbu |
| NOMBRES | Åse |
| APELLIDO | Strandbu |
| FIRMA | STRANDBU Å |
| AFILIACIONES | Norwegian School of Sport Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6209-5066 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 160 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Navigating dynamics and dilemmas in Southern African sport for development collaborations
This article examines safe sport policy development within transnational sport for development and peace (SDP) collaborations in Southern Africa, focusing on perspectives from Global North partners currently engaged in projects in Zambia and other Southern African countries. Drawing on cultural framing theory and postcolonial theory, the study explores how safeguarding initiatives emerge, evolve, and interact with local contexts in programs aimed…
Forcing, pushing, encouraging, or accepting? Parental dilemmas when teenagers seek to disengage from organised youth sport
Willingness of voluntary sports clubs to implement integration programmes – A construction of organisational identity ideal types
Integration of migrants is currently among the most relevant political issues in Western societies. In this context, voluntary sport clubs (VSCs) have been granted substantial trust to bring people together in joint sport activities. However, despite ambitious programmes launched by public authorities and/, or sport federations, a relatively small proportion of VSCs engage with such targeted initiatives. The existing literature provides explanati…
Blind spenders? The social meaning of money in youth sport
This study explores parents’ views and practices regarding expenses in club-organized youth sport (OYS), inspired by Zelizer's theory of the social meaning of money. Our ambition is twofold: (a) to develop a typology of the meaning of money spent on teenage children's sport participation—from the parents’ point of view, and (b) to examine how the meaning of money (the typology) is anchored in social class and familiarity with sport. Our data mate…
Sexual harassment and abuse in the equine sector
Sexual harassment and abuse (SHA) are recognized problems in sport contexts, yet little is known about their occurrence in the equine sector. This study examined reported experiences of SHA among participants in the Swedish and Norwegian equine sector. An intersectional framework was applied to analyze the interplay of social characteristics and culturally informed inequalities associated with SHA. A retrospective, cross-sectional survey ( N = 65…
Youth athletes' framing of nutritional supplements
Prior studies have revealed how some nutritional supplements used to enhance performance in sports are considered problematic because they are associated with doping. In this study, frame analysis is applied to scrutinise interviews conducted with 24 ambitious youth athletes enrolled in elite sport schools. The analysis enables exploration of the athletes' understanding and meaning-making concerning the so-called grey zone supplements in terms of…
Social Closure in the Youth Sport Field
This article addresses a key question in the sociology of social inequality: how the class-privileged come to monopolise formerly open social fields through processes of social closure. We focus on 'informal social closure', the less studied form of closure in the literature; our empirical case is youth cross-country skiing in Norway, which historically has recruited across the class spectrum. Based on interviews with ski parents and inspired by …
Rights-based Youth Sport
Participating in organized club sport constitutes a vital part of many young people's lives. This is particularly true in the Nordic countries, where almost all children have spent time in sport clubs at the point of reaching youth Sport participation thus plays an important role in making friends and being included in social networks Being 'good at sport' is also often attributed to high social status among peers, especially for boys In addition…
Young networked athletes and performance-enhancing substances
Ambitious youth athletes continually strive to enhance their performance, and as they age, more people are involved in this process. Athletes are immersed in a network of actors who wield significant influence over their performance-enhancing endeavours, encompassing training, nutrition, and at times, the use of various performance-enhancing substances. Our study predominantly revolves around various permitted substances, primarily in the form of…
Children's Rights to and in Sport
It has long been stated that children have the rights to protection from, e.g., abuse and to the provision of age-appropriate leisure, play, and recreational activities along with participation in all matters that concerns them. Yet, the full range of children's rights to and in sport has not yet been explored in detail. To do so, it is relevant to turn to the Scandinavian countries, which are praised for promoting children's rights and well-bein…
Performing performance
Youths are in the process of figuring out answers to the question "who am I?" and young athletes are searching for athletic identity in interaction with their friends, teammates, coaches, and so on. This study explores athletes' presentations of athletic identity based on 24 interviews with ambitious young athletes attending upper secondary sport schools. Anchored in Goffman's theory of the self and the presentation of the self, as well as Markus…
Participation of girls and women in community sport in Ghana
Despite numerous international and national policy documents promoting girls' and women's empowerment and participation in community sports, the actual access to sport for women and girls is still restricted in several countries. This paper explores the situation in Ghana. Through the analytical lens of Cooky and Messner's theory of 'the unevenness of social change', we analyse the cultural and structural barriers that prevent girls and women fro…
Sexual Harassment or Just Coaching? Sport Students Making Sense of Possibly Sexualising Coach Behaviours
Research has shown that athletes are divided in their assessment of possibly sexualising behaviours from coaches towards athletes. How they arrive at their conclusions has received less attention-yet it is crucial to understand as a basis for safeguarding measures. Using video-elicitation focus group interviews with sport students, we zoomed in on different types of 'grey area' situations involving coaches and athletes. We drew on social script t…
Fotball som kjønnet mulighetsrom
Denne artikkelen handler om idrett og kjønn. Vi tar utgangspunkt i fotball – som i dag er den mest populære idretten blant både jenter og gutter, samtidig som den er tydelig kjønnet på elitenivå. Kvinnefotball framstilles ofte som annenrangs sammenlignet med herrefotball. Dette kan forstås som vår kulturs «metafortelling» om kvinnefotball. På forbunds- og klubbnivå jobbes det samtidig med ulike «jentesatsinger» og «jentetiltak» for å øke jenters …
The continued importance of family sport culture for sport participation during the teenage years
Growing up in a family with an affinity for sports increases the likelihood of participating in club-organised sports. Few studies to date have addressed whether the importance of family sport culture is stable or changes during the teenage years. This article examines the association between family sport culture and participation in club-organised sports during teenage years and whether it differs between boys and girls. We utilise data from Nor…
Opting out of youth sports
Sports researchers often examine the subject of youth quitting sports through quantitative surveys using fixed-choice questionnaires. In this paper, we analyze 1,248 descriptions offered by youth in the survey Young in Oslo 2018 when asked to explain why they had left organized sports. We examine their reasons for opting out of sports and how different reasons may interact. Similar to studies with fixed-choice questions, we found both sports-inte…
Young Athletes’ Perceptions of Coach-Athlete Sexual Relationships
In this paper, we use data from focus group interviews with young athletes to explore their thinking about coach-athlete sexual relationships (CASRs). Our aim is to further the understanding of the ambivalence surrounding CASRs in the sports field, which are simultaneously viewed as ethically problematic and acceptable—at least when they involve high-profile adult athletes. Inspired by Swidler’s toolkit approach to culture, we analyze how athlete…
Faster, higher, stronger… safer? Safety concerns for young athletes in Zambia
This article draws attention to safety concerns affecting young people in the setting of organized sport in Zambia. Our primary aim is to explore ways in which aspects of sport culture may constitute a threat to athlete safety. Secondly, we try to understand sport-specific safety concerns in light of more general concerns for young people’s safety in Zambia. The study is based on interviews with athletes, coaches and sports leaders from Zambian s…
Young people’s experiences of parental involvement in youth sport
Recently parental involvement in youth sport has intensified, challenging the understanding of youth sports as an arena where adolescents can develop their identity and autonomy. On this background, our study explores how adolescents understand and negotiate their parents’ involvement in sport and how they define ideal and undesirable forms of parental involvement. Our empirical setting is Norway, and we draw on data from 16 focus group interview…
Populist political right opinions and political trust among Norwegian youth
Recent decades have seen the growth of various strands of right-wing populist political orientations, where populism and critique of immigration policies have been central. These ideological developments have caused concern for the legitimacy of social and political institutions. The question explored in this paper, based on Norwegian survey data, is ‘Which types of right political orientations exist among young people, and how do these political…
Understanding the increase in parents’ involvement in organized youth sports
As part of an ethnographic study on young people and learning (the knowledge in motion across contexts of learning project, set in Norway), we interviewed a diverse sample of parents of young teenagers, many of whom were active in organized sports. The parents described their level of involvement in sport in a way that contrasted sharply to our own experiences participating in youth sports in the 1970s and 1980s. Back then most parents were absen…
Talking Doping
In everyday communication, participants can critically explore their understanding of morally complex phenomena. There has been little effort within the social sciences to provide insight into whether and how athletes communicate among themselves about morally contested topics. This study attempts to fill this gap in the literature. Through focus group interviews and with the help of Goffman’s frame analysis, we explore how a group of young, Norw…
Young Norwegian-Pakistani women and sport
Studies from several countries show that girls with an immigrant background participate in organized sports to a lesser extent than other young people. Barriers related to culture and religion serve in many of these studies as explanations. In this article we suggest that the notions of culture and religion in this field of studies could be elaborated and we distinguish between three different approaches: (a) culture and religiosity as restrictin…
Body Talk and Body Ideals Among Adolescent Boys and Girls
This study explores how body ideals are discussed among adolescent boys and girls in 5 mixed-gender focus groups ( n = 37). The ways in which boys and girls talk about bodies differed clearly within the focus group conversations as well as in the everyday situations described in the interviews. The boys were more concrete in their description of ideal bodies in the focus groups but reported less engagement in everyday body talk. The study demonst…
Body Talk—Group Specific Talk? A Focus Group Study of Variations in Body Ideals and Body Talk among Norwegian Youth 1
The study investigates how body ideals are discussed and conceptualized among groups of Norwegian youth. Altogether 48 girls and 15 boys, most aged 17 years, took part in nine focus groups, in order to study subcultural body ideals. Major differences were found between east-end and west-end boys (representing socioeconomic differences), where the former were more concerned about being big. Even though the ideals were more or less the same across …
Understanding the increase in parents’ involvement in organized youth sports
As part of an ethnographic study on young people and learning (the knowledge in motion across contexts of learning project, set in Norway), we interviewed a diverse sample of parents of young teenagers, many of whom were active in organized sports. The parents described their level of involvement in sport in a way that contrasted sharply to our own experiences participating in youth sports in the 1970s and 1980s. Back then most parents were absen…
Identity, embodied culture and physical exercise
The article has two closely connected aims. The first is to illuminate some embodied aspects of identity that might contribute to the understanding of the underrepresentation of girls with immigrant parents in sports clubs. The second, and most important aim, is to discuss some recent identity theories. Roughly speaking two approaches dominate studies of, and public debates on, the lives and identities of young girls with immigrant parents; hybri…
The continued importance of family sport culture for sport participation during the teenage years
Growing up in a family with an affinity for sports increases the likelihood of participating in club-organised sports. Few studies to date have addressed whether the importance of family sport culture is stable or changes during the teenage years. This article examines the association between family sport culture and participation in club-organised sports during teenage years and whether it differs between boys and girls. We utilise data from Nor…
Young people’s experiences of parental involvement in youth sport
Recently parental involvement in youth sport has intensified, challenging the understanding of youth sports as an arena where adolescents can develop their identity and autonomy. On this background, our study explores how adolescents understand and negotiate their parents’ involvement in sport and how they define ideal and undesirable forms of parental involvement. Our empirical setting is Norway, and we draw on data from 16 focus group interview…
Opting out of youth sports
Sports researchers often examine the subject of youth quitting sports through quantitative surveys using fixed-choice questionnaires. In this paper, we analyze 1,248 descriptions offered by youth in the survey Young in Oslo 2018 when asked to explain why they had left organized sports. We examine their reasons for opting out of sports and how different reasons may interact. Similar to studies with fixed-choice questions, we found both sports-inte…
Young Norwegian-Pakistani women and sport
Studies from several countries show that girls with an immigrant background participate in organized sports to a lesser extent than other young people. Barriers related to culture and religion serve in many of these studies as explanations. In this article we suggest that the notions of culture and religion in this field of studies could be elaborated and we distinguish between three different approaches: (a) culture and religiosity as restrictin…
Environmentalism among Norwegian Youth
Based on a survey of three cohorts of youth in Oslo, aged 14-16 (N 5 11 425), the relevance of gender, class, cultural capital and political orientation to developing a pro-environmental orientation and joining an environmental organization was analysed. Cultural capital appeared to be of importance for developing strong environmental concern as well as for joining an environmental organization, while traditional measures of class background were…
Talking Doping
In everyday communication, participants can critically explore their understanding of morally complex phenomena. There has been little effort within the social sciences to provide insight into whether and how athletes communicate among themselves about morally contested topics. This study attempts to fill this gap in the literature. Through focus group interviews and with the help of Goffman’s frame analysis, we explore how a group of young, Norw…
Children's Rights to and in Sport
It has long been stated that children have the rights to protection from, e.g., abuse and to the provision of age-appropriate leisure, play, and recreational activities along with participation in all matters that concerns them. Yet, the full range of children's rights to and in sport has not yet been explored in detail. To do so, it is relevant to turn to the Scandinavian countries, which are praised for promoting children's rights and well-bein…
Participation of girls and women in community sport in Ghana
Despite numerous international and national policy documents promoting girls' and women's empowerment and participation in community sports, the actual access to sport for women and girls is still restricted in several countries. This paper explores the situation in Ghana. Through the analytical lens of Cooky and Messner's theory of 'the unevenness of social change', we analyse the cultural and structural barriers that prevent girls and women fro…
En pussig utlegning av middelklassens selvforståelse
Populist political right opinions and political trust among Norwegian youth
Recent decades have seen the growth of various strands of right-wing populist political orientations, where populism and critique of immigration policies have been central. These ideological developments have caused concern for the legitimacy of social and political institutions. The question explored in this paper, based on Norwegian survey data, is ‘Which types of right political orientations exist among young people, and how do these political…
Body Talk and Body Ideals Among Adolescent Boys and Girls
This study explores how body ideals are discussed among adolescent boys and girls in 5 mixed-gender focus groups ( n = 37). The ways in which boys and girls talk about bodies differed clearly within the focus group conversations as well as in the everyday situations described in the interviews. The boys were more concrete in their description of ideal bodies in the focus groups but reported less engagement in everyday body talk. The study demonst…
Bourdieu knew more than how to play tennis! An empirically based discussion of habituation and reflexivity
This paper explores the role of reflexivity in habituation by contrasting the learning of aerobics and basketball with the acquisition of gendered bodily skills. The discussion is inspired by the paper So, how did Bourdieu learn to play tennis? Habitus, consciousness and habituation, by Noble and Watkins (2003), which represents a fruitful contribution to the debate on the roles of reflexivity and consciousness in learning. Still, this model of h…
Youth and the Environmental Movement - Symbolic Inclusions and Exclusions
The present study set out to use qualitative interviews in an effort to understand why young people from highly educated groups, especially from 'non-productive' sectors of the economy (public services, teaching, etc.), are found to have a relatively strong affinity to the environmental movement. Young people aged 15-20, who were members of organizations associated with the protection of or use of nature, were interviewed. In conclusion, we sugge…
Performing performance
Youths are in the process of figuring out answers to the question "who am I?" and young athletes are searching for athletic identity in interaction with their friends, teammates, coaches, and so on. This study explores athletes' presentations of athletic identity based on 24 interviews with ambitious young athletes attending upper secondary sport schools. Anchored in Goffman's theory of the self and the presentation of the self, as well as Markus…
Sexual Harassment or Just Coaching? Sport Students Making Sense of Possibly Sexualising Coach Behaviours
Research has shown that athletes are divided in their assessment of possibly sexualising behaviours from coaches towards athletes. How they arrive at their conclusions has received less attention-yet it is crucial to understand as a basis for safeguarding measures. Using video-elicitation focus group interviews with sport students, we zoomed in on different types of 'grey area' situations involving coaches and athletes. We drew on social script t…
Young Athletes’ Perceptions of Coach-Athlete Sexual Relationships
In this paper, we use data from focus group interviews with young athletes to explore their thinking about coach-athlete sexual relationships (CASRs). Our aim is to further the understanding of the ambivalence surrounding CASRs in the sports field, which are simultaneously viewed as ethically problematic and acceptable—at least when they involve high-profile adult athletes. Inspired by Swidler’s toolkit approach to culture, we analyze how athlete…
Body Talk—Group Specific Talk? A Focus Group Study of Variations in Body Ideals and Body Talk among Norwegian Youth 1
The study investigates how body ideals are discussed and conceptualized among groups of Norwegian youth. Altogether 48 girls and 15 boys, most aged 17 years, took part in nine focus groups, in order to study subcultural body ideals. Major differences were found between east-end and west-end boys (representing socioeconomic differences), where the former were more concerned about being big. Even though the ideals were more or less the same across …
Youth athletes' framing of nutritional supplements
Prior studies have revealed how some nutritional supplements used to enhance performance in sports are considered problematic because they are associated with doping. In this study, frame analysis is applied to scrutinise interviews conducted with 24 ambitious youth athletes enrolled in elite sport schools. The analysis enables exploration of the athletes' understanding and meaning-making concerning the so-called grey zone supplements in terms of…
Social Closure in the Youth Sport Field
This article addresses a key question in the sociology of social inequality: how the class-privileged come to monopolise formerly open social fields through processes of social closure. We focus on 'informal social closure', the less studied form of closure in the literature; our empirical case is youth cross-country skiing in Norway, which historically has recruited across the class spectrum. Based on interviews with ski parents and inspired by …
Young networked athletes and performance-enhancing substances
Ambitious youth athletes continually strive to enhance their performance, and as they age, more people are involved in this process. Athletes are immersed in a network of actors who wield significant influence over their performance-enhancing endeavours, encompassing training, nutrition, and at times, the use of various performance-enhancing substances. Our study predominantly revolves around various permitted substances, primarily in the form of…
Sluttreplikk til Skarpenes og Sakslind
Environmentalism among Norwegian Youth
Based on a survey of three cohorts of youth in Oslo, aged 14-16 (N 5 11 425), the relevance of gender, class, cultural capital and political orientation to developing a pro-environmental orientation and joining an environmental organization was analysed. Cultural capital appeared to be of importance for developing strong environmental concern as well as for joining an environmental organization, while traditional measures of class background were…
Youth and the Environmental Movement - Symbolic Inclusions and Exclusions
The present study set out to use qualitative interviews in an effort to understand why young people from highly educated groups, especially from 'non-productive' sectors of the economy (public services, teaching, etc.), are found to have a relatively strong affinity to the environmental movement. Young people aged 15-20, who were members of organizations associated with the protection of or use of nature, were interviewed. In conclusion, we sugge…
Identity, embodied culture and physical exercise
The article has two closely connected aims. The first is to illuminate some embodied aspects of identity that might contribute to the understanding of the underrepresentation of girls with immigrant parents in sports clubs. The second, and most important aim, is to discuss some recent identity theories. Roughly speaking two approaches dominate studies of, and public debates on, the lives and identities of young girls with immigrant parents; hybri…
Sluttreplikk til Skarpenes og Sakslind
En pussig utlegning av middelklassens selvforståelse
Mette Andersson
Bourdieu knew more than how to play tennis! An empirically based discussion of habituation and reflexivity
This paper explores the role of reflexivity in habituation by contrasting the learning of aerobics and basketball with the acquisition of gendered bodily skills. The discussion is inspired by the paper So, how did Bourdieu learn to play tennis? Habitus, consciousness and habituation, by Noble and Watkins (2003), which represents a fruitful contribution to the debate on the roles of reflexivity and consciousness in learning. Still, this model of h…
Body Talk—Group Specific Talk? A Focus Group Study of Variations in Body Ideals and Body Talk among Norwegian Youth 1
The study investigates how body ideals are discussed and conceptualized among groups of Norwegian youth. Altogether 48 girls and 15 boys, most aged 17 years, took part in nine focus groups, in order to study subcultural body ideals. Major differences were found between east-end and west-end boys (representing socioeconomic differences), where the former were more concerned about being big. Even though the ideals were more or less the same across …
Young Norwegian-Pakistani women and sport
Studies from several countries show that girls with an immigrant background participate in organized sports to a lesser extent than other young people. Barriers related to culture and religion serve in many of these studies as explanations. In this article we suggest that the notions of culture and religion in this field of studies could be elaborated and we distinguish between three different approaches: (a) culture and religiosity as restrictin…
Body Talk and Body Ideals Among Adolescent Boys and Girls
This study explores how body ideals are discussed among adolescent boys and girls in 5 mixed-gender focus groups ( n = 37). The ways in which boys and girls talk about bodies differed clearly within the focus group conversations as well as in the everyday situations described in the interviews. The boys were more concrete in their description of ideal bodies in the focus groups but reported less engagement in everyday body talk. The study demonst…
Populist political right opinions and political trust among Norwegian youth
Recent decades have seen the growth of various strands of right-wing populist political orientations, where populism and critique of immigration policies have been central. These ideological developments have caused concern for the legitimacy of social and political institutions. The question explored in this paper, based on Norwegian survey data, is ‘Which types of right political orientations exist among young people, and how do these political…
Understanding the increase in parents’ involvement in organized youth sports
As part of an ethnographic study on young people and learning (the knowledge in motion across contexts of learning project, set in Norway), we interviewed a diverse sample of parents of young teenagers, many of whom were active in organized sports. The parents described their level of involvement in sport in a way that contrasted sharply to our own experiences participating in youth sports in the 1970s and 1980s. Back then most parents were absen…
Talking Doping
In everyday communication, participants can critically explore their understanding of morally complex phenomena. There has been little effort within the social sciences to provide insight into whether and how athletes communicate among themselves about morally contested topics. This study attempts to fill this gap in the literature. Through focus group interviews and with the help of Goffman’s frame analysis, we explore how a group of young, Norw…
Faster, higher, stronger… safer? Safety concerns for young athletes in Zambia
This article draws attention to safety concerns affecting young people in the setting of organized sport in Zambia. Our primary aim is to explore ways in which aspects of sport culture may constitute a threat to athlete safety. Secondly, we try to understand sport-specific safety concerns in light of more general concerns for young people’s safety in Zambia. The study is based on interviews with athletes, coaches and sports leaders from Zambian s…
Young people’s experiences of parental involvement in youth sport
Recently parental involvement in youth sport has intensified, challenging the understanding of youth sports as an arena where adolescents can develop their identity and autonomy. On this background, our study explores how adolescents understand and negotiate their parents’ involvement in sport and how they define ideal and undesirable forms of parental involvement. Our empirical setting is Norway, and we draw on data from 16 focus group interview…
The continued importance of family sport culture for sport participation during the teenage years
Growing up in a family with an affinity for sports increases the likelihood of participating in club-organised sports. Few studies to date have addressed whether the importance of family sport culture is stable or changes during the teenage years. This article examines the association between family sport culture and participation in club-organised sports during teenage years and whether it differs between boys and girls. We utilise data from Nor…
Opting out of youth sports
Sports researchers often examine the subject of youth quitting sports through quantitative surveys using fixed-choice questionnaires. In this paper, we analyze 1,248 descriptions offered by youth in the survey Young in Oslo 2018 when asked to explain why they had left organized sports. We examine their reasons for opting out of sports and how different reasons may interact. Similar to studies with fixed-choice questions, we found both sports-inte…
Young Athletes’ Perceptions of Coach-Athlete Sexual Relationships
In this paper, we use data from focus group interviews with young athletes to explore their thinking about coach-athlete sexual relationships (CASRs). Our aim is to further the understanding of the ambivalence surrounding CASRs in the sports field, which are simultaneously viewed as ethically problematic and acceptable—at least when they involve high-profile adult athletes. Inspired by Swidler’s toolkit approach to culture, we analyze how athlete…
Fotball som kjønnet mulighetsrom
Denne artikkelen handler om idrett og kjønn. Vi tar utgangspunkt i fotball – som i dag er den mest populære idretten blant både jenter og gutter, samtidig som den er tydelig kjønnet på elitenivå. Kvinnefotball framstilles ofte som annenrangs sammenlignet med herrefotball. Dette kan forstås som vår kulturs «metafortelling» om kvinnefotball. På forbunds- og klubbnivå jobbes det samtidig med ulike «jentesatsinger» og «jentetiltak» for å øke jenters …
Sexual Harassment or Just Coaching? Sport Students Making Sense of Possibly Sexualising Coach Behaviours
Research has shown that athletes are divided in their assessment of possibly sexualising behaviours from coaches towards athletes. How they arrive at their conclusions has received less attention-yet it is crucial to understand as a basis for safeguarding measures. Using video-elicitation focus group interviews with sport students, we zoomed in on different types of 'grey area' situations involving coaches and athletes. We drew on social script t…
Rights-based Youth Sport
Participating in organized club sport constitutes a vital part of many young people's lives. This is particularly true in the Nordic countries, where almost all children have spent time in sport clubs at the point of reaching youth Sport participation thus plays an important role in making friends and being included in social networks Being 'good at sport' is also often attributed to high social status among peers, especially for boys In addition…
Young networked athletes and performance-enhancing substances
Ambitious youth athletes continually strive to enhance their performance, and as they age, more people are involved in this process. Athletes are immersed in a network of actors who wield significant influence over their performance-enhancing endeavours, encompassing training, nutrition, and at times, the use of various performance-enhancing substances. Our study predominantly revolves around various permitted substances, primarily in the form of…
Children's Rights to and in Sport
It has long been stated that children have the rights to protection from, e.g., abuse and to the provision of age-appropriate leisure, play, and recreational activities along with participation in all matters that concerns them. Yet, the full range of children's rights to and in sport has not yet been explored in detail. To do so, it is relevant to turn to the Scandinavian countries, which are praised for promoting children's rights and well-bein…
Performing performance
Youths are in the process of figuring out answers to the question "who am I?" and young athletes are searching for athletic identity in interaction with their friends, teammates, coaches, and so on. This study explores athletes' presentations of athletic identity based on 24 interviews with ambitious young athletes attending upper secondary sport schools. Anchored in Goffman's theory of the self and the presentation of the self, as well as Markus…
Participation of girls and women in community sport in Ghana
Despite numerous international and national policy documents promoting girls' and women's empowerment and participation in community sports, the actual access to sport for women and girls is still restricted in several countries. This paper explores the situation in Ghana. Through the analytical lens of Cooky and Messner's theory of 'the unevenness of social change', we analyse the cultural and structural barriers that prevent girls and women fro…
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