Daniel Svensson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3420938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Svensson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Svensson |
| SIGNATURE | SVENSSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Malmö University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2914-4476 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Insiders, outsiders and allies
This article traces the pivotal role of Swedish skier Inga Löwdin and her colleagues in institutionalising women’s XC skiing in the mid-twentieth century, in particular the strategic work within the male-dominated International Ski Federation (FIS) to advance women’s inclusion in World Championships and Olympic Games. The article highlights Löwdin’s use of ‘proximal authority’ and collective female networks to navigate gendered barriers, contrast…
Challenges, tensions and opportunities
This special issue of Sport in Society, Challenges, tensions and opportunities: Sport and climate change, invited sport science scholars to submit papers from various theoretical perspectives, geographical areas, and methodologies. We welcomed submissions from various research themes regarding sports and climate change, especially empirical examples or cases of work with environmental sustainability in sports. In the call, we urged researchers to…
Sport, Performance and Sustainability
This book examines the logic of ‘faster, higher, and stronger’ and the technoscientific revolution that has driven tremendous growth in the sports economy and in sport performance over the last 100 years. It asks whether this logic needs revisiting in the light of the climate crisis and sport’s environmental responsibilities. \n \nDrawing on multi-disciplinary work in sport history, sport pedagogy, sport philosophy, sport science, and environment…
Pathways
Subarna
Where does environmental sustainability fit in the changing landscapes of outdoor sports? An analysis of logics of practice in artificial sport landscapes
Environmental sustainability in sport is an increasingly important issue. In this paper, we want to highlight a specific phenomenon, namely artificially constructed landscapes and the outdoor sport activities that take place therein. More specifically, we are interested in the logics that govern peoples’ practice of sport in such artificial landscapes and what challenges with regards to environmental sustainability that follow from these logics. …
Educating the Elite in an Egalitarian Context
How is an elite sports education introduced in a political context like 1970s Sweden, where egalitarian ideas about education and sport for all were the norm and anything hinting at special treatment for talented youths was potentially controversial? This article analyzes the history of how Sweden designed and implemented a nationwide system for elite sport education, and how different actors negotiated the balance between elite sport and educati…
Pathways to the trail – landscape, walking and heritage in a Scandinavian border region
Can walking trails be understood not only as routes to history and heritage, but also as heritage in and of themselves? The paper explores the articulation of trails as a distinct landscape and mobility heritage, bridging the nature-culture divide and building on physical and intellectual movements over time. The authors aim to contribute to a better understanding of the geography of trails and trailscapes by analysing the emergence of the Swedis…
Play as Work
Contemporary images of desirable work (for example at gaming companies or at one of the tech giants) foregrounds creativity and incorporates and idealises elements of play. Simultaneously, becoming one of the best in some particular leisure activity can require many long hours of hard, demanding work. Between on the one hand work and on the other hand leisure and play, we enter the domain of games and sports. Most classical sports originally deve…
A freak that no one can love”
This study adopts a testimonial approach to bullying victimisation,and aims to create a deeper understanding of the experiences andeffects of being a bullying target. Four written narratives about beingsubjected to school bullying were analysed according to interpretativephenomenological analysis. From the analysis, four themes wereconstructed, which represented different elements of victimhood: (1)Self-blame in which victims view themselves as t…
The Politics of Arctic Resources
Historically, northern peripheries have been colonized in order to access northern resources. The use of these resources promised economic wealth and community development even in northern parts of the Scandinavian Peninsula (Sörlin, 1988). However, already in the late 19th century the Swedish Tourist Association started promoting the area as also being worth a visit (Aldskogius 1993). Still, tourism has developed slowly, and as an industry remai…
Equalize It
This paper discusses the emergence of Swedish women’s football through the case of pioneering team Öxabäcks IF, from a rural village of about 900 inhabitants. From the start in 1966 until the dissolving of the team due to financial problems in 1999, Öxabäck was one of the top Swedish football clubs. They won seven Swedish Championships and six Swedish Cups, and played an important role in advancing national and international women’s football thro…
How Much Sport is there in Sport Physiology? Practice and Ideas in the Stockholm School of Physiology at GCI, 1941–1969
The physiology research at the Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics (Swedish acronym: GCI) in Stockholm was never primarily focused on sports, but has made significant contributions to sport and exercise physiology. Changing ideas about the human body (from form to motor) during the early twentieth century led to criticism towards the posture-oriented Ling gymnastics. The rationalisation movement of the 1930s and onwards also paved the way for a…
Where does environmental sustainability fit in the changing landscapes of outdoor sports? An analysis of logics of practice in artificial sport landscapes
Environmental sustainability in sport is an increasingly important issue. In this paper, we want to highlight a specific phenomenon, namely artificially constructed landscapes and the outdoor sport activities that take place therein. More specifically, we are interested in the logics that govern peoples’ practice of sport in such artificial landscapes and what challenges with regards to environmental sustainability that follow from these logics. …
Pathways to the trail – landscape, walking and heritage in a Scandinavian border region
Can walking trails be understood not only as routes to history and heritage, but also as heritage in and of themselves? The paper explores the articulation of trails as a distinct landscape and mobility heritage, bridging the nature-culture divide and building on physical and intellectual movements over time. The authors aim to contribute to a better understanding of the geography of trails and trailscapes by analysing the emergence of the Swedis…
A freak that no one can love”
This study adopts a testimonial approach to bullying victimisation,and aims to create a deeper understanding of the experiences andeffects of being a bullying target. Four written narratives about beingsubjected to school bullying were analysed according to interpretativephenomenological analysis. From the analysis, four themes wereconstructed, which represented different elements of victimhood: (1)Self-blame in which victims view themselves as t…
Educating the Elite in an Egalitarian Context
How is an elite sports education introduced in a political context like 1970s Sweden, where egalitarian ideas about education and sport for all were the norm and anything hinting at special treatment for talented youths was potentially controversial? This article analyzes the history of how Sweden designed and implemented a nationwide system for elite sport education, and how different actors negotiated the balance between elite sport and educati…
Equalize It
This paper discusses the emergence of Swedish women’s football through the case of pioneering team Öxabäcks IF, from a rural village of about 900 inhabitants. From the start in 1966 until the dissolving of the team due to financial problems in 1999, Öxabäck was one of the top Swedish football clubs. They won seven Swedish Championships and six Swedish Cups, and played an important role in advancing national and international women’s football thro…
How Much Sport is there in Sport Physiology? Practice and Ideas in the Stockholm School of Physiology at GCI, 1941–1969
The physiology research at the Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics (Swedish acronym: GCI) in Stockholm was never primarily focused on sports, but has made significant contributions to sport and exercise physiology. Changing ideas about the human body (from form to motor) during the early twentieth century led to criticism towards the posture-oriented Ling gymnastics. The rationalisation movement of the 1930s and onwards also paved the way for a…
Equalize It
This paper discusses the emergence of Swedish women’s football through the case of pioneering team Öxabäcks IF, from a rural village of about 900 inhabitants. From the start in 1966 until the dissolving of the team due to financial problems in 1999, Öxabäck was one of the top Swedish football clubs. They won seven Swedish Championships and six Swedish Cups, and played an important role in advancing national and international women’s football thro…
The Politics of Arctic Resources
Historically, northern peripheries have been colonized in order to access northern resources. The use of these resources promised economic wealth and community development even in northern parts of the Scandinavian Peninsula (Sörlin, 1988). However, already in the late 19th century the Swedish Tourist Association started promoting the area as also being worth a visit (Aldskogius 1993). Still, tourism has developed slowly, and as an industry remai…
Play as Work
Contemporary images of desirable work (for example at gaming companies or at one of the tech giants) foregrounds creativity and incorporates and idealises elements of play. Simultaneously, becoming one of the best in some particular leisure activity can require many long hours of hard, demanding work. Between on the one hand work and on the other hand leisure and play, we enter the domain of games and sports. Most classical sports originally deve…
A freak that no one can love”
This study adopts a testimonial approach to bullying victimisation,and aims to create a deeper understanding of the experiences andeffects of being a bullying target. Four written narratives about beingsubjected to school bullying were analysed according to interpretativephenomenological analysis. From the analysis, four themes wereconstructed, which represented different elements of victimhood: (1)Self-blame in which victims view themselves as t…
Educating the Elite in an Egalitarian Context
How is an elite sports education introduced in a political context like 1970s Sweden, where egalitarian ideas about education and sport for all were the norm and anything hinting at special treatment for talented youths was potentially controversial? This article analyzes the history of how Sweden designed and implemented a nationwide system for elite sport education, and how different actors negotiated the balance between elite sport and educati…
Pathways to the trail – landscape, walking and heritage in a Scandinavian border region
Can walking trails be understood not only as routes to history and heritage, but also as heritage in and of themselves? The paper explores the articulation of trails as a distinct landscape and mobility heritage, bridging the nature-culture divide and building on physical and intellectual movements over time. The authors aim to contribute to a better understanding of the geography of trails and trailscapes by analysing the emergence of the Swedis…
Pathways
Subarna
Where does environmental sustainability fit in the changing landscapes of outdoor sports? An analysis of logics of practice in artificial sport landscapes
Environmental sustainability in sport is an increasingly important issue. In this paper, we want to highlight a specific phenomenon, namely artificially constructed landscapes and the outdoor sport activities that take place therein. More specifically, we are interested in the logics that govern peoples’ practice of sport in such artificial landscapes and what challenges with regards to environmental sustainability that follow from these logics. …
Sport, Performance and Sustainability
This book examines the logic of ‘faster, higher, and stronger’ and the technoscientific revolution that has driven tremendous growth in the sports economy and in sport performance over the last 100 years. It asks whether this logic needs revisiting in the light of the climate crisis and sport’s environmental responsibilities. \n \nDrawing on multi-disciplinary work in sport history, sport pedagogy, sport philosophy, sport science, and environment…
Challenges, tensions and opportunities
This special issue of Sport in Society, Challenges, tensions and opportunities: Sport and climate change, invited sport science scholars to submit papers from various theoretical perspectives, geographical areas, and methodologies. We welcomed submissions from various research themes regarding sports and climate change, especially empirical examples or cases of work with environmental sustainability in sports. In the call, we urged researchers to…
Insiders, outsiders and allies
This article traces the pivotal role of Swedish skier Inga Löwdin and her colleagues in institutionalising women’s XC skiing in the mid-twentieth century, in particular the strategic work within the male-dominated International Ski Federation (FIS) to advance women’s inclusion in World Championships and Olympic Games. The article highlights Löwdin’s use of ‘proximal authority’ and collective female networks to navigate gendered barriers, contrast…
Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (4 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (3 works) · History (3 works)