Sport, Outdoor Life and the Nordic World explores the Nordic model
of sport and outdoor life with respect to such issues as sport
facilities, mountain guiding, women and ethnic minorities, urban
planning, anti-doping, health, elite sport coaching and leadership,
and the globalization of sport. The aims of the volume are twofold.
First, it advances knowledge of Nordic sport and outdoor life, as
important fields of social activity in their own rights. Second, it
enhances the understanding of the 'Nordic model' of society, and
the ways in which this is constructed, explored and challenged
within and through sport and outdoor life activities. In doing so,
the contributors explore a range of key themes, notably: how modern
Nordic sport and outdoor life activities emerged and are organized
through specific social policies; how they may challenge or harbour
forms of social exclusion, particularly in regard to gender or
minority populations; how they are affected by, and respond to,
deviant practices such as doping; how they may contribute to
alleviating social problems; and how they confront major structural
challenges and changes, such as the impacts of globalization and
the continuing dominance of neoliberal economic policies.
Interdisciplinary in approach, Sport, Outdoor Life and the Nordic
World is essential reading for those studying Nordic sports and
societies, and will also appeal to students, academics and wider
readers with interests in sport studies, sociology, social policy,
cultural studies, anthropology and public health. The chapters were
originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
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