Sport, Outdoor Life and the Nordic World

Nils Asle Bergsgard is Professor inSport Sociology at the University of South-Eastern Norway. He currently holds a position as Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty for Humanities, Sports and Educational Sciences. His main research interests are in sport policy and sport facility policy.Solfrid Bratland-Sanda is Associate Professor in Sport Sciences at University of South-Eastern Norway. Her main research interests are physical activity, exercise, sports and health in adolescents and clinical populations.Richard Giulianotti is Professor of Sociology at Loughborough University, and Professor II at the University of South-Eastern Norway. His main research interests are in sport, globalization, development, peace, youth and mega-events. Jan Ove Tangen is Professor of Sport Sociology at the University of South-Eastern Norway. His main interest are in sociological systems theory as well as doing research on inclusion/exclusion processes in sport, the use of legal and illegal performance enhancing substances, and the politics behind the Norwegian sports model.

• 1. Sport, outdoor life and the Nordic world: an introduction Nils Asle Bergsgard, Solfrid Bratland-Sanda, Richard Giulianotti and Jan Ove Tangen 2. National structures for building and managing sport facilities: a comparative analysis of the Nordic countries Nils Asle Bergsgard, Katja Borodulin, Josef Fahlen, Jens Høyer-Kruse and Evald Bundgård Iversen 3. Sport and civil society in the Nordic region Richard Giulianotti, Hannu Itkonen, Arto Nevala and Anna-Katriina Salmikangas 4. The organizing and regulation of mountain guiding in Scandinavia 1820–2016, with a glance at the Alps Cleng Andersen Eikje, André Horgen and Johan Arnegård 5. Outdoor life, nature experience, and sports in Norway: tensions and dilemmas in the preservation and use of urban forest Kirsti Pedersen Gurholt and Trygve B. Broch 6. The Nordic model and multiculturalism: the case of Sámi sport Eivind Å. Skille 7. Exploring the minority–majority gap in sport participation: different patterns for boys and girls? Åse Strandbu, Anders Bakken and Mira Aaboen Sletten 8. The gendering of media sport in the Nordic countries Jorid Hovden and Gerd von der Lippe 9. Scandinavian exceptionalism in anti-doping within sport: rooted in ideologies of social welfare and paternalism? Jan Ove Tangen and Verner Møller 10. The use of physical activity, sport and outdoor life as tools of psychosocial intervention: the Nordic perspective Solfrid Bratland-Sanda, Eva Andersson, James Best, Simon Høegmark and Kirsten Kaya Roessler 11. Deconstructing high performance Nordic sport: the case study of women’s handball (the ‘team as method’) Liv B. Hemmestad and Robyn L. Jones 12. The success culture of Nordic football: the cases of the national men’s teams of Norway in the 1990s and Iceland in the 2010s Frode Telseth and Vidar Halldorsson 13. Glocal culture, sporting decline? Globalization and football in Scandinavia Torbjörn Andersson and Hans Hognestad