Jesper Andreasson

Professor, vice dean

Department of Sport Science Faculty of Social Sciences

jesper.andreasson@lnu.se

+46 480-44 60 91

Jesper Andreasson holds a PhD in Sociology and is professor in sport science. Andreasson has extensive experience of working with ethnography and different internet methods. His research can mainly be positioned within health-, gender/masculinity studies and cultural sociology, and he has published extensively within the area of doping, embodiment, family life and more. Recent books are Prostate Cancer, Sexual Health and Ageing Masculinities. Exploring the Achilles´ Heel of Men (2024, co-authored with T, Johansson); Online Doping. The Digital Ecosystem and Cyborgification of Drug Cultures (2023, co-authored with A, Henning); Performance Cultures and Doped Bodies. Challenging Categories, Gender Norms, and Policy Responses (2021, co-authored with A, Henning); Fitness Doing. Trajectories, Gender, Bodies and Health (2020, co-authored with T, Johansson).

Research

I am currently working on three different research projects. The first analyzes women’s thoughts about and experiences of performance‑enhancing substances within organized sport and various fitness contexts. The second project falls within the field of critical studies on men and masculinities and examines men who have suffered a heart attack and how the illness affects their lifestyle and understanding of masculinity. The third project concerns informal care and migration.

Commissions

Vice Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences (FSV), Linnaeus University (LNU): 2025–ongoing

Member of the Review Panel (Cultural and Gender Studies), Research Council of Finland: 2025–2026

Chair, Appointment Committee, Faculty of Social Sciences (FSV), LNU: 2025–ongoing

Doctoral Education Committee, Faculty of Social Sciences (FSV), LNU: Chair 2025–ongoing; Member 2023–2024

Director of Doctoral Studies in Sport Science, LNU: 2021–2025

Faculty Board, Faculty of Social Sciences (FSV), LNU: Member 2022–2024

Programme Director, Master’s Programme in Sport Science, LNU: 2017–2021

Publications

Article in journal (Other academic)

Andreasson, J., Carlsson, B. (2022). Sport, dominance, hegemonic culture, and rebellion : an introduction. Sport in Society : Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce. 25 (6). 1103-1105.
Status: Published
Andersson, K., Andreasson, J. (2021). Being a Group Fitness Instructor during the COVID-19 Crisis : Navigating Professional Identity, Social Distancing, and Community - A Summary. Idrottsforum.org/Nordic sport science forum. (June 17).
Status: Published
Forss, C., Andreasson, J. (2017). Att äga konversationen : Linnea Claeson om idrott, näthat och motmakt. Idrottsforum.org/Nordic sport science forum. (September 19).
Status: Published
Andréasson, F., Andreasson, J., Hanson, E. (2017). Developing a carer identity and negotiating everyday life through social networking sites. Innovation in Aging. 1 (Suppl_1). 465-466.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Danielsson, T. (2016). Elitmotionärens vardag - familjeliv, tidspussel och extremidrott. Idrottsforskning. (18 maj).
Status: Published
Stenberg, E., Andreasson, J. (2016). Ett idrottsvetenskapligt glastak?. Idrottsforum.org/Nordic sport science forum. (September 9).
Status: Published
Tugetam, Å., Andreasson, J. (2015). Stor potential i gymträning för äldre. Svensk Idrottsforskning : Organ för Centrum för Idrottsforskning. 2.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2014). Gymkulturen balanserar på könsgränserna. Svensk Idrottsforskning : Organ för Centrum för Idrottsforskning. 4. 29-33.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J. (2011). I viljan att prestera. Svensk Idrottsforskning : Organ för Centrum för Idrottsforskning. 20 (3). 8-12.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J. (2010). Fotbollens arbetarklass. Svensk Idrottsforskning : Organ för Centrum för Idrottsforskning. (4). 11-16.
Status: Published

Chapter in book (Refereed)

Andreasson, J., Henning, A. (2026). On the female image and performance enhancement drugs experience. Human Enhancement Drugs : Volume Two. London, Routledge. 27-35.
Johansson, T., Andreasson, J. (2023). Divorced fathers in Sweden : Changed models of parenting and fatherhood. Men and welfare. New York, Routledge.
Andersson, K., Andreasson, J., Vogl, U. (2022). Global Perspectives on Group Fitness Post Lockdown : Reflections of Les Mills’ Trainers. Restart : Sport After the Covid-19 Time Out. Common Ground Publishing.
Vogl, U., Jacobs, G., Andersson, K., Andreasson, J. (2022). Choosing to stay fit? : Glocalized Ideologies of Health and Fitness during a Pandemic. Pandemic and Crisis Discourse : Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy.. Bloomsbury Academic. 453-470.
Henning, A.D., Andreasson, J. (2022). Cultural Manspreading in Doping Environments : Theorizing the Gendering of Doping Spaces, Sexualities, and the Social. Doping in Sport and Fitness. Bingley, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 195-214.
Henning, A.D., Andreasson, J. (2022). Conclusion : Doping Unbound. Doping in Sport and Fitness (Research in the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 16). Bingley, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 253-261.
Henning, A.D., Andreasson, J. (2022). Introduction : Unbinding Doping Contexts. Doping in Sport and Fitness. Bingley, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 1-14.
Andreasson, J., Mogensen, K.H. (2021). The Ecstatic Pump and the Logic of Pain : Learning Processes and Embodiment in Fitness Culture. Learning Movements : New Perspectives of Movement Education. Routledge.
Andersson, K., Vogl, U., Andreasson, J. (2021). Working out Covid-19 : Being a Les Mills Instructor and Managing Health in Times of Quarantine. Time Out : Global Perspectives on Sport and the Covid-19 Lockdown. Common Ground Publishing. 107-118.
Larsson, H., Andreasson, J. (2020). Sport and Masculinities in Sweden : Performance and the Notion of Gender Equality. The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Sport. Palgrave Macmillan. 465-481.
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2020). ”Som en canvas i blod” : Mixed martial arts som skådespel och sport. Sport management, del 3 : Idrottens marknader och konsumtionskultur. SISU idrottsböcker. 132-149.
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2017). Doped Manhood : Negotiating Fitness Doping and Masculinity in an Online Community. Marginalized Masculinities : Contexts, Continuities and Change. New York and London, Routledge.

Chapter in book (Other academic)

Andreasson, J., Johansson, T., Magnusson, L. (2020). Violent Youth Radicalisation in Sweden : The issue and the YEIP prevent model. New directions in preventing youth radicalisation : Comparative and summary findings from the youth empowerment and innovation project (YEIP). London, IARS Publications. 88-94.
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T., Magnusson, L. (2019). Marginalisation, Radicalisation and Prevention in Sweden : Implementing Policy Measures Through GLM-Based and Youth-Led Research. Violent youth radicalisation : Youth-led evidence from the UK, Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Portugal,Sweden and Italy. London, IARS Publications. 60-67.
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T., Magnusson, L. (2018). Våldsbejakande extremism och radikalisering: En översikt : [Violent extremism and radicalization: an overview]. Young, Marginalised but not Radicalised : A comparative study of positive approaches to youth radicalisation. London, IARS Publications. 152-175.
Andreasson, J., Redelius, K. (2018). Unga kroppar i rörelse : Om ideal och hälsonormer i föreningsidrott och gymkultur. Barn- och ungdomsvetenskap : Grundläggande perspektiv. Stockholm, Liber. 338-349.
Andreasson, J. (2009). 'Vi spelar också i Allsvenskan'. : Kvinnors idrottsliga förutsättningar under omvandling.. Uppbrott : Brytpunkter och övergångar i tid och rum. Kalmar, Högskolan i Kalmar. 75-90.
Andreasson, J. (2005). Mellan svett och mascara : Masculinitet i ett kvinnligt fotbollslag. Manlighetens omvandlingar : ungdom, sexualitet och kön i heteronormativitetens gränstrakter. Göteborg, Daidalos. 21-40.
Andreasson, J. (2003). Brudar, bärs och bögar : maskulinitet och sexualitet i en enkönad miljö. Sexualitetens omvandlingar : politisk lesbiskhet, unga kristna och machokulturer. Göteborg, Daidalos. 25-46.

Collection (editor) (Refereed)

Andreasson, J., Henning, A. (2024). Rethinking Sport and Social Issues. Basel, MDPI. 208.
Henning, A.D., Andreasson, J. (2023). Doping in Sport and Fitness.. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 261.

Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)

Andreasson, J. (2007). Idrottens kön. Genus, kropp och sexualitet i lagidrottens vardag. Doctoral Thesis. 267.

Article, book review (Other academic)

Andreasson, J. (2018). Muskler, maskulinitet och motionsdoping. Idrottsforum.org/Nordic sport science forum. (October 25).
Status: Published
Andreasson, J. (2014). Bodybuilding in practice and in representation : A subcultural and subjective odyssey. Idrottsforum.org/Nordic sport science forum. (11 mars).
Status: Published

Conference paper (Refereed)

Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2024). Theorizing masculinity, ageing and the lived body : The case of prostate cancer. Presented at European sociological association (ESA) 16th conference, Porto, Portugal, August 27-30, 2024.
Rindhagen, C., Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2023). In the absence of testosterone : Hormonal treatment, masculinity, and health among prostate cancer patients in physical training. Presented at Svensk Förening för Beteende- och Samhällsvetenskaplig Idrottsforskning (SVEBI) årliga Idrottsvetenskapliga konferens, Gothenburg, Sweden, November 23-24, 2023.
Andreasson, J., Sverkersson, E. (2019). A new doping demography? : Female PIED users in the context of online communication. International Network of Doping Research, 2019 Conference, WADA’s 20th Anniversary, 22.-23. August 2019, Aarhus University, Denmark : Book of Abstracts. 8-8.
Andreasson, J. (2019). (Un)Becoming a fitness doper : Negotiating the meaning of illicit drug use in a gym and fitness context. International Network of Doping Research, 2019 Conference, WADA’s 20th Anniversary, 22.-23. August 2019, Aarhus University, Denmark : Book of Abstracts. 8-8.
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2019). (Un)Becoming a Fitness Doper. : Negotiating the meaning of illicit drug use in a gym and fitness context. Narrowing paths - transgressive routes : Youth in changing times: new forms of inequality, risk and resistance. 23-23.
Andreasson, J. (2019). Doping Trajectories : Becoming and Unbecoming a Fitness Doper. INDR 8th International Conference, WADA's 20th Anniversary : 22-23 August, Aarhus, Denmark.
Andreasson, J., Sverkersson, E. (2019). Female Fitness Doping : A new doping demography. Narrowing paths - transgressive routes. Youth in changing times : new forms of inequality, risk and resistance : Nordic Youth Research Symposium (NYRIS) in Aarhus 14 - 16 August 2019. 22-23.
Andreasson, J., Sverkersson, E. (2019). Fitness doping and the female body : Negotiating gender and contesting the limits of the body through drug use practices. Narrowing paths-transgressive routes : Youth in changing times: new forms of inequality, risk and resistance.
Andreasson, J. (2017). Negotiating Manhood : Doping and the mainstreaming of online marginal masculinities. Presented at: International Network for Doping Research (INDR), Aarhus, August 24-25, 2017..
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T., Mattsson, C. (2016). From subcultures to common culture : Bodybuilders, skinheads and the normalization of the marginal. Nordic Youth Research Symposium (NYRIS), Youth Moves. Voices, Spaces, Subjectivities. Trollhättan, Sweden, 15-17 june, 2016.
Danielsson, T., Andreasson, J. (2016). IRONMAN triathlon. : Familjeliv, tidspussel och extremidrott. SVEBI, 16-17 november.
Andreasson, J. (2015). Reconceptualising the gender of fitness doping : Performing and negotiating masculinity through drug-use practices. Evaluating the Unintended Effects of Anti-Doping, 27-28 August, 2015.
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2015). Online Doping. Paper presented at the Journal of youth studies conference, March 30-April 1, 2015, Copenhagen.

Conference paper (Other academic)

Andreasson, J. (2024). Online Risk, Offline Harm : Social Consequences of Doping in Sweden. Presented at International Conference on Doping and Public Health, June 17-18, Stockholm, Sweden.
Parks Pieper, L., Andreasson, J., Vest Christiansen, A., Møller, V. (2022). "Whose Sport Is It? A Debate on Gender, Equality, and Fairness in Sport and Society". Presented at: Whose Body Is it? Sport and the Problem of Autonomy. Thirteen international Conference on Sport & Society, AArhus, Denmark, 30 June-1 July 2022.
Henning, A.D., Andreasson, J. (2022). Recalibrating doping. Presented at: Whose Body is it? Sport and the Problem of Autonomy. Thirteen international Conference on Sport & Society, Aarhus, Denmark, 30 June-1 July, 2022.
Andreasson, J. (2022). Online Doping : Kroppsideal och genus i digitala dopinggemenskaper. Presented at: Doping - Det dolda samhällsproblemet.
Andreasson, J. (2019). Fitness dopning : Kroppsideal, dopningskultur och genus. Samtal om samhällsideal, machokultur och dopning.
Henning, A.D., Andreasson, J. (2019). Women’s Fitness Doping in the Context of Online Communication : Motivation, Experimentation and Gendered Spaces. .
Andreasson, J. (2019). Gym- och Fitnessdopning. : Kropp, genus och en föränderlig dopningsdemografi. .
Andreasson, J., Sverkersson, E. (2019). Pumping up the ego : Biographical studies on young people's doping trajectories. IPEDs and Polydrug Use.
Andreasson, J. (2016). Steroider på nätet : Att använda sociala medier för att diskutera och legitimera dopning. Presented at: DrogFOKUS 2016, nationell konferens om alkohol, narkotika, dopning och tobak, 13-20 Oktober, 2016.
Andreasson, J. (2015). The Global Gym. .
Andreasson, J. (2014). Smärta, pump och förkroppsligade läroprocesser på gymmet. .
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2013). The Global Gym : Gender, Health and Pedagogies. .
Andreasson, J. (2012). Idrott och jämställdhet. .
Andreasson, J. (2009). Idrottens kön. .
Andreasson, J. (2008). Kön och åldrande. .
Andreasson, J. (2007). Idrott, kön och klass. .
Andreasson, J. (2007). Idrott, kropp och jämställdhet. .

Report (Refereed)

Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2019). Fitness doping and gym culture. FORTE. 8+4.
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2019). Fitnessdopning och gymkultur. FORTE. 8+4.

Report (Other academic)

Andreasson, J., Lalander, P. (2003). Det statliga kasinot. Mellan myt och verklighet. SoRAD, Forskningsrapport nr. 13.
Andreasson, J. (2001). Huset : Utvärdering av verksamheten på Ungdomens Hus i Kalmar. Kalmar, Högskolan i Kalmar.

Other (Other academic)

Andreasson, J., Henning, A.D. (2022). Gym Culture and IPEDs : The pre-history of IPEDs and the golden era of bodybuilding, 1900-1980s. Meso-Rx International.
Andreasson, J., Henning, A.D. (2022). Fitness Culture and IPEDs : Crisis, revolution, and the digital push, 1990-2020. Meso-Rx International.
Henning, A.D., Andreasson, J. (2022). “Oh my, the bigger and more fuller clit is amazing” : Reclaiming the female body through a women-only forum. MESO-Rx International.
Henning, A.D., Andreasson, J. (2021). Anti-Doping : Producing Health or Harm?. MESO-Rx International.
Henning, A.D., Andreasson, J. (2021). Dude, make some space : Women’s experiences in an online steroid community. MESO-Rx International.

Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Ahmadi, F., Andréasson, F., Andreasson, J., Bayati, Z., Bečević, Z., et al. (2019). Remissyttrande över utkast till lagrådsremiss : Förlängning av lagen om tillfälliga begränsningar av möjligheten att få uppehållstillstånd i Sverige (Dnr Ju2019/00509/L7). 8.