{"id":1463,"date":"2023-05-02T08:45:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T06:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2023-05-02T08:45:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T06:45:43","slug":"open-access-to-sport-performance-and-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/2023\/05\/open-access-to-sport-performance-and-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Access to Sport, Performance and Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"
Is the strive for increasing performance and an ever-growing sports sector compatible with sustainable development? This is the key issue that the authors investigates in a new book: Sport, Performance and Sustainability, edited by Daniel Svensson, Erik Backman, Susanna Hedenborg and the Division’s Sverker S\u00f6rlin.<\/div>\n

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Sport, Performance and Sustainability<\/em>\u00a0examines the logic of “faster higher, and stronger” and the technoscientific revolution that has driven tremendous growth in the sports economy and in sport performance over the last 100 years.<\/p>\n

The chapters provide valuable perspectives on the tensions between performance and sustainability. Co-authors include Sigmund Loland, Simon Beames, Itai Danielski, Andreas Isgren Karlsson, Jack Reed, Johan Carlsson, Isak Lidstr\u00f6m, Bo Carlsson and Marie Larneby.<\/p>\n

Sport, performance and Sustainability<\/em>\u00a0is publisehd by Routledge and written within\u00a0MISTRA Sport and Outdoor<\/a>\u00a0– a research and collaboration programme to generate knowledge and solutions for increased sustainability in sport and outdoor recreation.<\/p>\n

The book is due for printing now in May, but is also available open access online. Find it here: Sport, Performance and Sustainability<\/a><\/p>\n

The Editors<\/h4>\n

Daniel Svensson<\/strong> is an Associate Senior Lecturer in Sport Management at the Department of Sport Sciences. He defended at the Division in 2016 with the thesis “Scientizing performance in endurance sports : The emergence of \u2018rational training\u2019 in cross-country skiing, 1930-1980,”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Erik Backman<\/strong> is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy and Sport Sciences at the Department of Sport Sciences, School of Health and Welfare, Dalarna University, Sweden, and Associate Professor at the Department of Primary and Secondary Teacher Education, Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.<\/p>\n

Susanna Hedenborg<\/strong> is a Professor in Sport Sciences at Malm\u00f6 University, Sweden, and the President of the Swedish Research Council for Sport Science.<\/p>\n

Sverker S\u00f6rlin<\/strong> is a Professor of Environmental History at the Division\u00a0 and a co-founder of the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory.<\/p>\n

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Is the strive for increasing performance and an ever-growing sports sector compatible with sustainable development? This is the key issue that the authors investigates in a new book: Sport, Performance and Sustainability, edited by Daniel Svensson, Erik Backman, Susanna Hedenborg and the Division’s Sverker S\u00f6rlin. Sport, Performance and Sustainability\u00a0examines the logic of “faster higher, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[234,152,5],"tags":[122,127,249],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-presentation","category-environmental-humanities","category-the-ehl","tag-book","tag-new-book","tag-sport"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}