Leisure Cultures and the Making of Modern Ski Resorts

Philipp Strobl is Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and Adjunct Research Fellow within the Faculty of Health, Arts and Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Aneta Podkalicka is Researcher at the School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University, Australia.

• 1. Skiing Transnational - Cultures, Practices and Ideas On The Move; Aneta Podkalicka and Philipp Strobl.- 2. Going Downhill? The Industrialisation of Skiing From the 1930s to the 1970s; Andrew Denning.- 3. Slippery Slopes: Skiing, Fashion and Intrigue in 1960s Film; Marilyn Cohen and Nancy Deihl.- 4. Mount Uludağ: The Making of Turkey’s St. Moritz; Onur Inal.- 5. Skiing Through Time: Articulating a Landscape Heritage of Swedish Cross-country Skiing; Daniel Svensson.- 6. Arlberg: The Creation of a Resort and the Transfer of Knowledge; Christof Thöny.- 7. American Bucks and Austrian Buccaneers: Sun Valley - The Making of America’s First Winter Resort; Günter Bischof.- 8. “We Want to Be More Like The West”: Skiing for All in the 1950s–1970s Poland; Stanisław Jędrzejewski.- 9. From Niche Sport to Mass Tourism – Transnational Lives in Australia’s Thredbo Resort; Philipp Strobl.

“It is exciting and commendable and should attract follow-ups even in our latitudes, even though human geography studies in Sweden are less than vigorous, at least when it comes to sports related issues. … The anthology inspires further studies in the Swedish context. The development in Åre, Idre and the Sälen alps deserves to be analysed and compared.” (Leif Yttergren, idrottsforum.org, June 8, 2021)“Leisure Cultures and the Making of Modern Ski Resorts … is a com­pendium of nine heavily researched papers … . Leisure Cultures is a work of fresh and fascinating ski history.” (John Fry, Skiing History, Vol. 31 (3), May-June, 2019)