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Young Athletes’ Perceptions of Coach-Athlete Sexual Relationships: Engaging With Competing Ethics
No full textStefansen, Kari/ Solstad, Gerd Marie/ Strandbu, Åse/ Hansen, Maria (2019)In: Sociology of Sport Journal 36(4), pp. 339-346 ABSTRACT "In this paper, we use data from focus group interviews with young athletes to explore their thinking about coach-athlete sexual relationships (CASRs). Our aim is to further the understanding of the ambivalence surrounding CASRs in the sports field, which are simultaneously viewed as ethically problematic and acceptable—at least when they involve high-profile a..
Safe sport for all?: Exploring safety and safeguarding in Zambian sport
Get PDFAvhandling (doktorgrad) - Norges idrettshøgskole, 2019Safeguarding policies and regulations provide a way for sport associations to address abuse and promote “safe sport”. In recent years, formalized safeguarding in sport has gained ground within sport governance in many Western countries – and beyond. Moreover, safeguarding policies are sometimes integrated in transnational Sport for Development partnerships. This is the case for sport associations in Zambia working together with the Norwegian Olympic- and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports (NIF).
The main ambition of this research project is to grasp possibilities and constraints associated with formalized safeguarding in Zambian sport associations in the context of their partnership with NIF. I explore the research question: “How are safety and safeguarding understood in the context of organized sport in Zambia?” The study draws empirically on fieldwork consisting of interviews with sport leaders, coaches and athletes in Zambian sport as well as participatory observation with two women’s sport teams. Research findings are presented in four articles that shed light on different aspects of the overall research question.
Article 1 focuses on understandings of safety in sport and in wider Zambian society. It shows that the interviewees in this study primarily portrayed sport as a safe arena for youth. Nevertheless, issues such as aggressive coaching methods, unhealthy athlete ideals and the potential for exploitation within asymmetrical power relations were addressed. Against this background, we drew attention to the potential conflict between a vision of safe sport and a sporting culture committed to an ethos of “faster, higher, stronger”.
Article 2 problematizes transactional sex as a safety concern for young women and looks into safeguarding resources drawn upon within sport-based social networks. Attention is drawn to the various forms of support offered by senior players to their younger teammates with the intention of steering them towards safe and sensible life choices. We argue that issues located in the grey area between sexual agency and sexual exploitation are important to consider in relation to safeguarding. Moreover, we show that safeguarding in sport can be perceived in ways that diverge from understandings found within organizational policy.
Article 3 examines how athletes perceive the prospect of formally reporting abuse in sport. The athletes described fears of punishment, disbelief, gossip and exclusion from sport, thus portraying reporting of abuse as demanding and risky. These findings alluded to athletes’ limited power over decisions affecting their sport participation and raised caution about relying too much on reporting procedures as a mechanism for detecting abuse in sport.
Article 4 considers motivations for addressing abuse through safeguarding by asking how safe sport is “culturally framed” within Zambian sport. The interviewed sport leaders expressed commitment to fighting abuse in sport and positioned safeguarding as an effective approach. They also portrayed safeguarding as consistent with several sport goals and in line with their moral commitments to athletes. The article proposes that political mobilization against abuse in Zambian sport was facilitated by a strong network of local mobilizing actors working for gender equality in and through sport.
Overall, this research draws attention to the vulnerabilities of athletes in resource-poor settings and shows that safety and safeguarding in sport can be understood in diverse ways. Due to local anchoring of the safe sport agenda, safeguarding may become embedded in Zambian sport. However, limited resources and competing problem areas within the sport associations are significant constraints. While the long-term impact of safeguarding remains to be seen, safe sport policies communicate an important message for sport associations to take action against abuse and to foreground the safety of athletes.Paper I: Solstad, G.M. and Strandbu, Å. (2017): Faster, Higher, Stronger… Safer? Safety concerns for young athletes in Zambia. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. DOI:10.1177/1012690217742926Paper II: Solstad, G. M. and Rhind, D. (2018): Sport, Safeguarding and Transactional Sex: A Case Study of Social Networks in Zambian Sport. Sport in Society. DOI:10.1080/17430437.2018.1445990Paper III: Solstad, G. M. (under review): Reporting Abuse in Sport: A Question of Power? European Journal for Sport and Society.Paper IV: Solstad, G.M. and Strandbu, Å. (submitted). Culturally Framing “Safe Sport”: On Political Mobilization against Abuse in Sport. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics.Seksjon for kultur og samfunn / Department of Cultural and Social Studie
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Evaluering av «Idrett for alle i Oslo». Kartleggingsrapport 2020
No full textSatsingen «Idrett for alle i Oslo» ble startet av Oslo Idrettskrets i 2018 med mål om økt og mer mangfoldig idrettsdeltakelse blant barn og unge. I denne rapporten kartlegger vi utgangspunktet for idrettssatsingen som NOVA ved OsloMet og Forskningssenter for barne- og ungdomsidrett ved Norges idrettshøgskole skal evaluere fram mot 2024. Rapporten er basert på intervjuer med idrettsledere som er tilknyttet idrettssatsingen, og data fra ungdomsundersøkelsen Ung i Oslo
Evaluering av «Idrett for alle i Oslo». Kartleggingsrapport 2020
Get PDFSatsingen «Idrett for alle i Oslo» ble startet av Oslo Idrettskrets i 2018 med mål om økt og mer mangfoldig idrettsdeltakelse blant barn og unge. I denne rapporten kartlegger vi utgangspunktet for idrettssatsingen som NOVA ved OsloMet og Forskningssenter for barne- og ungdomsidrett ved Norges idrettshøgskole skal evaluere fram mot 2024. Rapporten er basert på intervjuer med idrettsledere som er tilknyttet idrettssatsingen, og data fra ungdomsundersøkelsen Ung i Oslo
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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