Sport Outdoor Life and the Nordic World

<p><em>Sport Outdoor Life and the Nordic World</em> explores the Nordic model of sport and outdoor life with respect to such issues as sport facilities mountain guiding women and ethnic minorities urban planning anti-doping health elite sport coaching and leadership and the globalization of sport.</p><p></p><p>The aims of the volume are twofold. First it advances knowledge of Nordic sport and outdoor life as important fields of social activity in their own rights. Second it enhances the understanding of the ‘Nordic model’ of society and the ways in which this is constructed explored and challenged within and through sport and outdoor life activities. In doing so the contributors explore a range of key themes notably: how modern Nordic sport and outdoor life activities emerged and are organized through specific social policies; how they may challenge or harbour forms of social exclusion particularly in regard to gender or minority populations; how they are affected by and respond to deviant practices such as doping; how they may contribute to alleviating social problems; and how they confront major structural challenges and changes such as the impacts of globalization and the continuing dominance of neoliberal economic policies.</p><p></p><p>Interdisciplinary in approach <em>Sport Outdoor Life and the Nordic World</em> is essential reading for those studying Nordic sports and societies and will also appeal to students academics and wider readers with interests in sport studies sociology social policy cultural studies anthropology and public health. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of <em>Sport in Society</em>. </p>