Format:
1 online resource (xi, 235 pages)
ISBN:
9783031461859
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics Series
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The Swedish and the Nordic Model -- Distinguishing Traits of Swedish Sport Politics -- The Book's Layout and Some of Its Topics -- Chapter 2: Sport from Above -- Sport for the Regent -- Sport for the Nobility -- Sport for the People -- Sport for the Upcoming Social Strata -- Bodies and Constitutions -- New Bodies for a New Political Order -- Chapter 3: A Swedish Invention that Conquered the World -- The Royal Gymnastics Central Institute -- The Poet and the Modernist -- The Philosopher and Critic of Competitive Sports -- Facing Ideological Challenges -- Supported by the State, Profit from the Market -- Gymnastics for Coming to Terms with the Contradictions of Modernity -- The Feminisation and Feministisation of Gymnastics -- Out into the World -- Chapter 4: The Development of Swedish Sport Until the 1930s -- Performance Toned Down -- Entrepreneurs In, Intellectuals Out -- Workers In, Women Out -- The Organisation of Sport and Its Further Diffusion in Society -- The Medialisation of Sport -- The Commercialisation of Sport -- Chapter 5: The Development of Swedish Sport Politics Until the 1930s -- Three Different Roads to Political Democracy -- Political Conflicts and State Interventions in Norwegian Sport -- Political Conflicts and Organisational Pluralism in Denmark -- Cultural and Organisational Conflicts over Sport and Gymnastics in Sweden -- Celebration, Criticism and Political Governance of Sport -- How Sport Politics Affected Sport -- Chapter 6: The Social Democrats Embrace Sport -- The Rise and Fall of Conservative Sport Ideology -- New Sporting Traditions in the Interwar Period -- The Worker Sport Movement -- Three Different Roads to Social Democracy -- Three Different Roads to Worker Sport.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031461842
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783031461842
Language:
English
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