Overview
- Analyzes the development of social entrepreneurship within Swedish sport
- Offers a broad overview of the political and social elements of sports in Sweden
- Introduces a methodological tool for analyzing social entrepreneurship in a sport policy context
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This edited collection explores the concept of social entrepreneurship in sport, examining how it has been used in Swedish society to date. It explores how this approach in sport could also be used to address wider socio-political issues, including economic, political, cultural and pedagogical in European society.
Sport and Social Entrepreneurship in Sweden explores different social entrepreneurship projects which have created new forms of activity and reached groups of children and young people previously disengaged in sport. The authors also highlight the growing momentum of this kind of entrepreneurship in Sweden after a period of societal upheaval that has resulted in a blurring of social borders and the founding of new organisational forms.
This book contributes to the formation of a new field of research, involving theoretical and empirical work on the characteristics and possibilities of social entrepreneurship in relation to sport.Reviews
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Tomas Peterson is Senior Professor at Malmö University, Sweden, and Professor II at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. His research areas include sport and social entrepreneurship, the professionalization of Swedish football, and sport politics.
Katarina Schenker is Senior Lecturer in Sport Sciences at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her research interests concern the inclusion and exclusion of children and youth in physical education and health, and in the state-funded Swedish sports movement.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sport and Social Entrepreneurship in Sweden
Editors: Tomas Peterson, Katarina Schenker
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72496-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72495-9Published: 20 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10212-8Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72496-6Published: 13 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 126
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Social Work and Community Development, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging