Browsing Brage NIH by Author "Skille, Eivind Å."
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Does elite sport develop mass sport? : a Norwegian case study
Hanstad, Dag Vidar; Skille, Eivind Å. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-03-31)The notion that elite sport generates mass sport,seems to be a social fact among many and influential members of the society. The issue is, however, under-researched, and the little research which actually exists does not ... -
Elite athletes' perspectives on providing whereabouts information : a survey of athletes in the Norwegian registered testing pool
Hanstad, Dag Vidar; Skille, Eivind Å.; Thurston, Miranda (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-03)This paper reports on the perspectives of elite athletes on anti-doping work in general and on the whereabouts system in particular, and uses a figurational perspective to explore the unintended consequences of the planned ... -
Ethno-politics and state sport policy : The case of how the Sámi Sport Association–Norway challenged the Norwegian confederation of sport’s monopoly for state subsidies to sport
Skille, Eivind Å. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)This paper investigates how the Sámi Sport Association of Norway (SVL-N), with the support of the Sámi Parliament in Norway, challenged the Norwegian confederation of sport’s (NIF) monopoly to state funding to sport. Through ... -
From community based identities to individual benefits for volunteers: a comparison of three sporting events
Kristiansen, Elsa; Skille, Eivind Å.; Hanstad, Dag Vidar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-05-28)The purpose of this paper is to explore and identify different types of volunteers at three major sporting events: the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria; the 2012 GöteborgsVarvet (a half-marathon race), ... -
Harmonization of anti-doping work: myth or reality?
Hanstad, Dag Vidar; Skille, Eivind Å.; Loland, Sigmund (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-03-11)In order to examine the implementation of the World Anti Doping Agency's (WADA) policy of global harmonization of anti-doping work, a survey was conducted among the members of the Association of National Anti-Doping ... -
Journalisters syn på samarbeidet med den norske OL-troppen under vinterlekene i Vancouver 2010
Hanstad, Dag Vidar; Skille, Eivind Å. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-12)Using web-based surveys, we study how Norwegian sports reporters perceived their relationship to the Norwegian team during the Olympic winter games in 2010. It was revealed that (i) the working conditions of journalists ... -
Political framing of sports: the mediated politicisation of Oslo’s interest in bidding for the 2022 Winter Olympics
Seippel, Ørnulf; Broch, Trygve B.; Kristiansen, Elsa; Skille, Eivind Å.; Wilhelmsen, Terese; Strandbu, Åse; Thorjussen, Ingfrid M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-05-14)Sport is a malleable phenomenon: it is not obvious what might be contentious about sports and how sports eventually turn into political questions. For years, there had been discussions on whether the city of Oslo should ... -
Sport policy analysis revisited: the sport policy process as an interlinked chain of legitimating acts
Strittmatter, Anna-Maria; Stenling, Cecilia; Fahlen, Josef; Skille, Eivind Å. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)By providing an analytical framework that draws on a conceptualisation of legitimacy in organisation studies, this paper demonstrates that the sport policy process can be understood as an interlinked chain of legitimating ... -
Telemark Skiing: The ultimate Norwegian sport and a class phenomenon
Breivik, Gunnar; Skille, Eivind Å. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)In this paper, we scrutinise telemark skiing with regard to gender, social class and other sociological variables. In so doing, our methodological approach involves applying Bourdieu’s framework to analyse the surveys – ... -
The sustainability of the Youth Olympic Games: Stakeholder networks and institutional perspectives
Parent, Milena; Kristiansen, Elsa; Skille, Eivind Å.; Hanstad, Dag Vidar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-04-02)This paper explored the Youth Olympic Games’ (YOG) potential sustainability (survival and success) through an analysis of how actors exert various forms of pressure on the YOG. Given the impact of the Olympic Games and ...