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  • Countering Right Wing Extremism in Education

    Schooling in the Racist Badland

    by Christer Mattsson, Thomas Johansson, Jesper Andreasson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Countering Violent Extremism
    This book investigates how schools deal with racism and extremism, focusing on everyday life, students, and the surrounding community and geographical area.There is a lack of clarity on how racism and extremism should be managed in schools. Through extensive ethnographical data, interviews, and focus group interviews with students and school staff in mill towns and racist strongholds in Sweden, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Prostate Cancer, Sexual Health, and Ageing Masculinities

    Exploring the Achilles' Heel of Men

    by Jesper Andreasson, Thomas Johansson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a rich, multidimensional analysis of how prostate cancer is lived, treated, and perceived by different actors through the stages of care, rehabilitation, and recovery. Furthermore, it focuses on how side effects, such as urinary leakage and impotence, affects the construction of masculinity. Though the book foregrounds men treated for prostate cancer, it also includes the voices ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Online Doping

    The Digital Ecosystem and Cyborgification of Drug Cultures

    by Jesper Andreasson, April Henning ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the bodies, communities, and cultures that evolve in different online doping spaces. By engaging in critical analysis of the interrelatedness of online and offline doped realities, the book provides a comprehensive analysis influenced by digital sociology and feminist theory. It focuses on the intersection of doping, bodies, and technology, and is structured around three ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Fitness Doping

    Trajectories, Gender, Bodies and Health

    by Jesper Andreasson, Thomas Johansson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book compiles several years of multi-faceted qualitative research on fitness doping to provide a fresh insight into how the growing phenomenon intersects with issues of gender, body and health in contemporary society.Drawing on biographical interviews, as well as online and offline ethnography, Andreasson and Johansson analyse how, in the context of the global development of gym and fitness ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Fatherhood in Transition

    Masculinity, Identity and Everyday Life

    by Thomas Johansson, Jesper Andreasson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book discusses and analyses the ways in which fatherhood is in transition in contemporary and globalized society. The authors identify and examine fathering practices in relation to hegemonic and marginal patterns of masculinity, the concept of heteronormativity and sexuality, and patterns of segregation, class and national differences. Contextualised in relation to theories of fatherhood and ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies

    Gender, Identities and Bodies in Motion

    by Jesper Andreasson, Thomas Johansson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book investigates extreme sports, defined as sports in which athletes challenge and transgress societal perceptions of what is humanly possible to achieve, in terms of physical training and bodily development/performance. Situated within a growing body of literature analysing the impact of new training trends on an individual’s body, identity, lifestyle and perception of his/her social ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Doping in Sport and Fitness

    Edited by April Henning, Jesper Andreasson ...
    Series Book 16 - Research in the Sociology of Sport
    Doping, as both practice and phenomenon, has largely been approached as a question of socio-cultural context and structures. Doping in Sport and Fitness argues that rigid differentiations between doping contexts – such as sport/fitness or elite/recreational – are less clear than it might seem. Breaking down these boundaries allows for a more complete understanding of substance use patterns, ... Read more

    $107.49 USD

  • Hope and Asylum

    Everyday Life, Precarity and Social Change

    by Torun Elsrud, Philip Lalander, Jesper Andreasson, Marcus Herz ...
    Series series Studies in Migration and Diaspora
    This book applies perspectives of hope to understand the precariousness, suffering, and agency of people seeking asylum. With attention to the restrictions and austerity politics that have characterised public policy following the significant rise in asylum applications in 2015, it draws on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork in the Swedish asylum context, together with data collected in other ... Read more

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  • Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe

    Critical Essays on Knowledge, Inequality and Belonging

    Edited by Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, Mia Liinason ...
    Interdisciplinary in perspective, this book explores contemporary struggles around ‘identity politics’ in Europe, offering a unique glimpse into contemporary tensions and paradoxes surrounding identities, belonging, exclusions and their deep-seated gendered, colonial and racist legacies. With a particular focus on the Nordic region, it provides insights into the ways in which people who find ... Read more

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  • Fair Play in Sport

    A Moral Norm System

    Edited by Sigmund Loland ...
    Series series Ethics and Sport
    Fair Play in Sport presents a critical re-working of the classic ideal of fair play and explores its practical consequences for competitive sport. By linking general moral principles and practical cases, the book develops a contemporary theory of fair play.The book examines many of the key issues in the ethics of sport, including:* fairness and justice in sport* moral and immoral interpretation of ... Read more

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  • Genetically Modified Athletes

    Biomedical Ethics, Gene Doping and Sport

    by Andy Miah ...
    Series series Ethics and Sport
    In a provocative analysis of sport ethics and human values, Genetically Modified Athletes imagines the brave new world of sport. The internationally acclaimed book examines this issue at a crucial time in its theorisation, questioning the very cornerstone of sporting and medical ethics, asking whether sporting authorities can, or even should, protect sport from genetic modification.This book ... Read more

    $70.99 USD