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doi: 10.1080/11745398.2025.2449838pmid: N/A
This study examines the influence of power structures on the implementation of sustainable solutions in the context of local sports facility processes. It highlights the incongruence between the configuration of facilities and the patterns of activity in Norway, which in turn affects social and environmental sustainability. The study employs a three-level power analysis framework, drawing on the dimensions of power proposed by Lukes and the concept of symbolic power put forth by Bourdieu. The case studies from Norway and Denmark demonstrate the challenges for the development of innovative, inclusive, and environmentally friendly sports facilities. The findings indicate that the prevailing power structures tend to favour traditional, organized sports, which in turn impedes the implementation of more sustainable and socially inclusive facilities. The study puts forward hypotheses for future research, emphasizing the necessity to transform existing power structures in order to facilitate to implement more innovative solutions.
doi: 10.1080/11745398.2024.2358760pmid: N/A
Conflict, instability and the search for better economic prospects have seen a global migrant crisis necessitating destination countries to rethink social integration and social inclusion policies and programmes. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals have intensified the urgency for governments to promote the social, economic and political inclusion of their citizens, emphasizing migrant communities. Community level leisure and sport programmes present as an inexpensive option for local governments and social development organizations to support the inclusion and empowerment migrant communities. Using an instrumental case study design with a post-structural lens, this research note explored the power differential inherent in leisure and sport programmes and investigated co-design as process to address the power differential. Findings indicate that even though participants experienced a sense of self-empowerment and enhanced perception of social inclusion, co-design as stand-alone strategy does not fully resolve the power differential within leisure programmes presented to migrant residents.
doi: 10.1080/11745398.2024.2409097pmid: N/A
This article analyses how the cultural practice of Norwegian friluftsliv (outdoor recreation) came to be represented as a particularly effective way of cultivating environmental awareness from the late 1960s. The analysis shows how a small group of actors gained the power to shape the friluftsliv discourse, and how their ideas spread and gained influence from that time until the year 2000, in the fields of higher education, government policy and friluftsliv organizations.
Løvoll, Helga Synnevåg; Sæther, Knut-Willy; Dyrdal, Gunvor Marie
doi: 10.1080/11745398.2024.2358753pmid: N/A
In this paper, we explore how immersion in nature implicitly relates to consumerism and how our emotional engagement with nature is manifested as power dynamics in our drive to connect with nature. Utilizing insights from Aristotelian ethics (specifically eudaimonic wellbeing), mindfulness, and aesthetics, we propose a tripartite framework of moods associated with ‘friluftsliv’ in a Norwegian context, arguing that engagement with nature harbours a concealed ecological fallacy. Identifying the means by which we can deepen and enrich our emotional awareness of nature – especially by pinpointing emotions that spur people to act in harmony with the environment – holds immense potential for the development of sustainable lifestyles. We categorize these conceptual moods as the hedonic mood, the eudaimonic mood, and the mood of self-transcendence. Addressing the Western, individualistic perspective on the human-nature relationship, we suggest that leisure and recreational interactions with nature are conducive to a revitalization of the concept of ‘friluftsliv’.
doi: 10.1080/11745398.2024.2421804pmid: N/A
Climate crisis, environmental problems, and their appropriate responses are contested topics in international football. In this study, I analyse the construction of these issues and the privileging of certain responses through a critical discourse analysis of media content on environmental problems from FIFA, UEFA and We Play Green's (WPG) websites posted in 2022 (N = 66). I then examine how power is expressed within these discourses, and how this influence the renegotiation of the dominant discourse. In addition to a dominant discourse offered by FIFA and UEFA emphasizing how economic development is compatible with, and needed to achieve environmental sustainability, I identified a counter-discourse offered by WPG, promoting radical changes in politics and consumer practices. The various constructions of environmental problems and appropriate responses found in the two discourses demonstrate the need for democratic discussions when conceptualizing these issues, to make responses less dependent on strategic and economic interests.
Petersen-Wagner, Renan; Lee Ludvigsen, Jan Andre
doi: 10.1080/11745398.2023.2292990pmid: N/A
As a significant pillar of the leisure world, the sports industry makes substantial contributions to climate change through carbon emission and its influence on sustainable practices, rendering some sport mega-events environmentally destructive. In line with wider trends, researchers have increasingly examined sport mega-events, their governance and environmental impacts. In this context, this article contributes towards an understanding of how ‘sustainability’ is framed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) through a digital sociological analysis of its YouTube channels. Drawing on Ulrich Beck’s concept of ‘staging’, the article addresses two research questions focused on (1) how the issue of climate change is publicly staged by the IOC and (2) how social media provides another outlet for the IOC’s sustainable practice discourses. By exploring these questions, the article develops an understanding of how policies staged to address global risks now formulate a key aspect of sport governing bodies’ presence on social media.
Sturm, Damion; Andrews, David L.; Miller, Toby; Bustad, Jacob
doi: 10.1080/11745398.2024.2376754pmid: N/A
Historically, Formula One motor racing has had a deleterious environmental impact: burning fossil fuels, the wanton waste of resources while producing a complex global carbon footprint. However, as global concerns and expectations have escalated around environmental sustainability, Formula One has advanced what is largely superficial and deceitful ‘green' credentials via perfunctory hybrid technologies and promulgating piecemeal sustainability strategies. In doing so, Formula One harnessed the considerable symbolic power of its global brand to popularise a largely superficial approach to sustainability, while focusing on its own global expansion and growth. Formula E is similarly premised on purportedly more sustainable ‘green' technologies. Nonetheless, the sport’s environmental credentials are also contestable, due to its constitutive partnerships with high—tariff environmental polluters, as well as the efficiency of the electric and battery technologies that it promotes. Via greenwashing rhetoric and practices, this article explores the symbolic power both sports espouse through notions of sustainability.
Rodrigues, Vânia; Ventura, António
doi: 10.1080/11745398.2024.2358765pmid: N/A
Abstract How does the performing arts sector feel about the need to ‘green’ the performing arts? A sense of urgency around climate change and ecological degradation is informing profound changes in the way the arts field sees itself and inducing a debate around sustainability and the arts’ perception of responsibility. Despite the undeniable planetary emergency, the lumping together of environmental issues and artistic practices remains complex and controversial, demanding careful examination. By exploring the preliminary results of a nation-wide inquiry and workshops within artistic institutions based in Portugal, this paper discusses the overarching challenge of environmental sustainability, examining the ways in which ecological responsibility is apprehended and justified, and seeking to contribute to a more nuanced and context-sensitive understanding of the ‘green transition’.
Røyseng, Sigrid; Vinge, John; Stavrum, Heidi
doi: 10.1080/11745398.2024.2311900pmid: N/A
This article explores the complexities of how environmentally conscious policies and values, often associated with ‘going green’, create cross-pressures for musicians. Successful musicians’ careers have long been associated with values related to international activities and arenas and extensive touring that requires travelling. The article uses the concept of ‘cultural dissonance’ to describe cross-pressures that arise when musicians must navigate these conflicting values in the field of music. Moreover, the article suggests an extension of this concept by considering the structuring principles in the field of music. This expanded framework allows for a more comprehensive analysis of positions and position-takings towards environmentalism. This study is based on qualitative interviews with 57 professional musicians in Norway. In this analysis, three structuring principles were identified: professional roles, centre vs. periphery, and musical generations.
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