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Jens LjunggrenProfessor

Om mig

Född 1964, disputerade 1999.

Forskning

Mina huvudsakliga forskningsområden är idrottshistoria, manlighetshistoria och politisk känslohistoria.
 

Nyckelord: idrott, känslor, idrottshistoria, manlighet, politisk historia, intellektuella.

Forskningsprojekt

Den svenska barn- och ungdomsidrottens historia

Unga människor var viktiga för den idrottsrörelse som drog igång i Sverige under slutet av 1800-talet. Under efterkrigstiden blev idrott den överlägset populäraste föreningsaktiviteten för barn och ungdomar. Hur har idrottsverksamheter förhållit sig till dessa unga utövare, och hur har deras förhållningssätt utvecklats och påverkats över tid?

Forskning

Publikationer

I urval från Stockholms universitets publikationsdatabas

  • How use of science formed researh: Knowledge pdoduction on children and youth sport in Sweden in the 1980s

    2024. Jens Ljunggren. The Yearbook of Finnish Society for Sport History

    Artikel

    In the 1970s and 1980s, influential researchers argued that competition made children feel bad and that this caused them to quit sport. This soon became the dominant perspective among educational and behavioural researchers in Sweden, and this study examines why this narrative developed. This was not because different perspectives were systematically tested against each other and debated scientifically. Instead, to understand the dominance of the competition criticism, this study scrutinises how researchers interacted with other actors in sport and society. In terms of source material, the analysis is based on two conferences on child and youth sport held at Bosön in 1982 and 1989.

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  • Idrottshistoria

    2024. Jens Ljunggren. Samhällsidrotten och idrottssamhället, 47-70

    Kapitel

    Vägen till idrottshistoria som akademisk disciplin har förvissovarit lång, långsam och krokig. Redan 1709 försvarades en av-handling om de antika olympiska spelen vid Uppsala universitet.Under 1800- och 1900-talen blev Ling-gymnastiken föremål fören rad mestadels oakademiska och starkt nationalistiskt färgadehistoriska studier. Statsvetaren Hilding Johanssons omfattandestudie av idrottens sociala, politiska och ekonomiska utveckling1953 följdes dock inte av några ytterligare historiska studier. Ge-nombrottet för idrottshistoria som akademisk disciplin i Sve-rige skedde först på 1970-talet, och när Jan Lindroth tillsattessom professor i idrottshistoria vid Stockholms universitet 1992konsoliderades ämnet. I dag bedrivs idrottshistorisk forskningoch undervisas i idrottshistoria utifrån en rad olika analytiskautgångspunkter vid flera olika universitet och med etableradeinternationella förgreningar.

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  • A Political History of Sport in Sweden

    2024. Jens Ljunggren.

    Bok

    This book presents a history of Swedish sport, highlighting in particular the relationship between sport politics and people’s changing attitudes towards sport from the eighteenth century until today. It scrutinizes the interaction between sport politics and people’s different approaches to sport in everyday life. By investigating how different ways of pursuing and conceptualizing sport have progressed and interacted, and how they have influenced as well been influenced by sport politics, this book discerns the role of both governmental and municipal politics in the development of sport in Sweden.

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  • The Emotionalization of Sports for Childrenand Young People in Swedish Athletics

    2023. Jens Ljunggren. Athletics in the Nordic Countrie, 193-216

    Kapitel

    The purpose of this chapter is to analyze, from anemotional-historical perspective, how and why adults’ attitudes regarding sportsfor children and young people changed during the period and how this affectedthe activity. The chapter’s main argument is that, because new emotional normsprevailed in society, dominant attitudes and practices in children’s and youngpeople sports were challenged and new pedagogical ideas adapted. To understandthis process, and to complement the two already established analytical notionsin Swedish sports research (association and competition education), this studyintroduces the analytical concept of personality education, which points out howthe upbringing of the young athletes was aimed at developing them as individuals.

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  • Idrott: En värdeladdad och svårstoppad global rörelse

    2022. Jens Ljunggren. Natur & Kulturs globalhistoria, del 1

    Kapitel
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  • The Boosting and Moulding of Anger

    2018. Jens Ljunggren. Labour History Review 83 (3), 247-273

    Artikel

    Twentieth-century politicians have not only devoted themselves to formulating ideologies and representing various social interests. By actively expressing, communicating, and displaying emotions, they have also pursued 'emotional politics', which means that they have used and formed emotions for political purposes. This study scrutinizes how Swedish social democracy, especially its party leaders and early campaigners, has conducted emotional politics from the 1880s to the 1980s. Socialism turned the idea of a divine judgment into a secular world court by promising that in the event of revolution, anger would be given an outlet, revenge would occur, justice would prevail, and the oppressed would be given back their dignity. During the interwar period, the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) took decisive steps towards becoming a reformist 'people's party'. Simultaneously, its party leaders conducted emotional navigation to replace anger with other feelings by legitimizing worry and uncertainty as ways of expressing social displeasure and by furthering a sense of pride generated by emotional self-control. Since the interwar period, it has been a recurrent strategy among Swedish Social Democratic party leaders to pursue emotional navigation in order to mitigate anger and replace it with other emotions.

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  • Perspektiv på föreningsdemokrati och styrsystem inom svensk idrottsrörelse från 1900- till 2000-talet

    2015. Jens Ljunggren, Paul Sjöblom, Bill Sund. Idrott, historia & samhälle, 10-19

    Artikel

    The Swedish Sports Confederation, RF, defines itself as a ‘popular movement’. This notion has been one of the most fundamental elements of the sports movement’s self-image, and it has also been used as a way for the movement to legitimize itself – considering it is financially supported by the Swedish state. This sport organizational identity also denotes that RF is governed democratically. Both the social movement identity and the notion of democratic comportment have been fundamental to the sports movement’s self-understanding. The governing of Swedish sport has so far been scrutinized mostly on a general level concerning the relationship between public authorities and RF. The association level has not been considered to the same extent in previous research. Nor has the issue of sport democracy been particularly highlighted as a research topic in its own right. However, in order to understand the governing of as well as the social and cultural impact of Swedish sport, we must understand how those institutions in authority have been managed and regulated. Based on both innovative theoretical models and empirical in depth analysis, the articles in this special issue find new ways to explain and understand how Swedish sport has been governed and controlled.

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  • The "Good" Left-Wing Intellectual

    2015. Jens Ljunggren. NORDEUROPAforum, 48-66

    Artikel

    In this article I will examine the forming and positioning of "the left-wing intellectual" in Sweden from the late 1940s until the late 1970s. My main focus lies first on "the intellectual" as a social type, that is, ideal concepts of what it meant to be a "left-wing intellectual", and second on the position of left-wing intellectuals within Swedish public debate. The Swedish intellectual setting changed rapidly during the 1960s and 1970s, when young radicals, by connecting Sweden to European culpability regarding the horrors of the early 20th century, created a new and firm left intellectual stance. Suddenly the radical left dominated Sweden's intellectual debate, and became influential since the Swedish state and the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) adopted a strategy of collaboration. The ideal of the "good left-wing intellectual", was pictured in terms of state collaboration, reformism, sociability and being a "cultural worker" rather than a high-brow intellectual confrontation. This type could easily interact with the state while simultaneously reaching parts of the population and satisfying the media establishment - all of which strengthened the left-wing intellectuals' public and cultural significance.

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