Football in the Nordic Countries (eBook, ePUB)

Practices, Equality and Influence
Redaktion: Szerovay, Mihaly; Itkonen, Hannu; Nevala, Arto

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores football culture, organisation and development in the five Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Norway. These countries represent an important case study in sport culture, policy and management, being shaped by unique traditions in their civil society and in social welfare and public policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000900842
• Artikelnr.: 67814467

Autorenporträt

Mihaly Szerovay holds a joint Professor of Practice position at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and the Football Association of Finland. Before taking up his current role that focuses on research and development in football, he worked as Senior Lecturer in Football Studies at Solent University, UK. Szerovay's main research interest lies in the various aspects of sport and globalisation, the professionalisation in the different segments of football, and the changing field of youth sport clubs. Szerovay played football professionally as a goalkeeper in Jyväskylä, Finland. Arto Nevala is Senior University Lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland. His main topics of research are concerned with the social history of education and sports history. He has published and edited books and articles related to the changes in sports clubs, the development of football and refereeing. Nevala is a former referee in the Finnish Premier League and has also worked as a referee observer and match delegate. Hannu Itkonen is Professor Emeritus in the Sociology of Sport at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research interests lie in the historical sociology of sport, social control of sport, sports in the civic, public and private sector as well as sport in local and global contexts. He has published books and articles in sport sociology and general sociology as well in social history. Itkonen acted as the president and vice-president (2010-2016) of the European Association for the Sociology of Sport.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Mapping Nordic Countries and Football
Part I: Changing Football in the Nordic Countries
1. Tradition and Transformation in Denmark
2. Growing Participation and Slow Professionalisation in Finland
3. Preserving the Balance Between Amateurism and Professionalism in Iceland
4. Inclusion
Exclusion and Modernisation in Norway
5. Between Grassroots Democracy and Professional Commercialism in Sweden
Part II: Specific Issues and Themes
Professionalisation and Changing Practices
6. Football Companies in Sweden and their Democratic Framework
7. The Professionalisation of Finnish Football from the 1970s to 2000s: From Amateurs to Professionals
8. The Professionalisation of Youth Football in Norway: Implications for the "Sport for All" Ideal?
9. Football Fitness: More of the Same
or a Path-Breaking Concept?
Equality and Gender
10. Five Decades of Women's Football in Finland
11. Breaking Barriers in Norwegian Women's Football
12. Women's Football in Iceland: Don't Wait for Change
Just Do It
Supporters
Audiences and Culture
13. Historical Rivalries in Swedish Club Football
14. The Development of Supporter Cultures in Norwegian Football Since 1990
15. Nordic Spectator Studies: The Literature on Attendance and Satisfaction at Professional Football Matches
16. Ethnicity and Aesthetics in Swedish Football: Playing Like a Swede
Fighting Like a Kurd
17. Conclusion: Similarities
Differences and Future Research in Football in the Nordic Countries