one of the most evident examples. 2 Cross-country skiing emerged where there was snow, and it is still mainly an outdoor sport. It has a long tradition in Sweden as an important part of Swedish nationalism, though not as important as in Norway. 3 It is a very traditional sport and simultaneously one
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Landscapes of Performance: Using Local Geography for the Testing of Sport School Pupils in Sweden, 1972–2023
Daniel Svensson
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sport management at St. Francis Xavier University (Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada), cross-appointed between the Departments of Human Kinetics and Management. His primary research interests include sport as heritage, specifically in the context of the marginalization of traditional games around the
Nature Sport and Environmental History: Adulation or Alteration of Nature?
PearlAnn Reichwein, Pierre-Olaf Schut, and Grégory Quin
experience of nature in the outdoor spaces of physical culture and movement. For example, traditional koku divers of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, cross-country skiers in the Swedish countryside, and sailors on the Atlantic coast of France each were closely attuned to where they lived and
“Home” to Some, But Not to Others: It’s Time to “Step Up” 1
Carly Adams
interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary conversations; and to imagine new directions.” 4 I am proud of the work we have done over the past six years. Yet, I remain unsettled about the state of the journal and the field of sport history. Here, I reflect on my 2016 editorial and in particular the phrase I used
Exploring Issues in Transnational Sport History
Robert J. Lake and Simon J. Eaves
ideological meanings. 4 He defined the term, in his 1997 text, as “an idea, a movement, or an institution that seeks to reformulate the nature of relations among nations through cross-national cooperation and interchange.” 5 This definition follows logically, given that the prefix in the term inter