Jesper Andreasson
Associate Professor
Department of Sport Science
Faculty of Social Sciences
+46480446091
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23076, Hus Radix, Kalmar
Jesper Andreasson has written mainly in the field of gender studies, the sociology of sport and gym/fitness culture. Andreasson has published articles in journals such as Journal of Ethnography and Education, Journal of Men’s studies, Journal of Sport, Education and Society, and SAGE Open.
My research groups and projects
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Project: Pumping up the ego: Biographical studies on young people’s doping trajectories This project will provide increased knowledge of different types of pathways to doping, and also contribute to an…
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Project: Generating hope and dealing with uncertainty: An ethnographic study of the social dimensions of hope in the Swedish asylum-seeking context This project will study issues of hope and uncertaint…
Publications
Article in journal (Refereed)
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2019). Becoming a half-time parent : Fatherhood after divorce. Journal of Family Studies. 25. 2-17.
- Andreasson, J., Henning, A.D. (2019). Glocal fitness doping : Policy, practice and prevention in the United States and Sweden. Performance Enhancement & Health. 6. 103-110.
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2019). Triathlon Bodies in Motion : Reconceptualizing Feelings of Pain, Nausea and Disgust in the Ironman Triathlon. Body & Society. 25. 119-146.
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2019). Negotiating violence : mixed martial arts as a spectacle and sport. Sport in Society : Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce. 22. 1183-1197.
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2019). (Un)Becoming a Fitness Doper : Negotiating the Meaning of Illicit drug use in a Gym and Fitness Context. Journal of Sport and Social Issues. 1-17.
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2019). Bodybuilding and Fitness Doping in Transition : Historical Transformations and Contemporary Challenges. Social Sciences. 8. 1-14.
- Andréasson, F., Andreasson, J., Hanson, E. (2018). Developing a carer identity and negotiating everyday life through social networking sites : An explorative study on identity constructions in an online Swedish carer community. Ageing & Society. 38. 2304-2324.
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2018). Glocalised fitness : the franchising of a physical movement, fitness professionalism and gender. Leisure/ Loisir. 42. 301-321.
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T., Danielsson, T. (2018). Becoming an Ironman triathlete : Extreme exercise, gender equality and the family puzzle. Sport in Society : Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce. 21. 1351-1363.
- Johansson, T., Andreasson, J. (2017). The Web of Loneliness : A Netnographic Study of Narratives of Being Alone in an Online Context. Social Sciences. 6.
- Johansson, T., Andreasson, J., Mattsson, C. (2017). From Subcultures to Common Culture : Bodybuilders, Skinheads, and the Normalization of the Marginal. SAGE Open. 7. 1-9.
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2017). It All Starts Now! : Gay Men and Fatherhood in Sweden. Journal of GLBT Family Studies. 13. 478-497.
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2017). The new fitness geography : the globalisation of Japanese gym and fitness culture. Leisure Studies. 36. 383-394.
- Johansson, T., Andreasson, J. (2016). The Gym and the Beach : Globalization, Situated Bodies, and Australian Fitness. Journal of contemporary ethnography. 45. 143-167.
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2016). Global narratives of fatherhood : Fathering and masculinity on the Internet. International Review of Sociology. 26. 482-496.
- Andreasson, J., Tugetam, Å., Bergman, P. (2016). Keeping Death at Bay through Health Negotiation : Older Adults' Understanding of Health and Life within Gym and Fitness Culture. Activities, Adaptation & Aging. 40. 200-218.
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2016). Online doping : The new self-help culture of ethnopharmacology. Sport in Society : Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce. 19. 957-972.
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2016). ‘Doing for group exercise what McDonald's did for hamburgers’ : Les Mills, and the fitness professional as global traveller. Sport, Education and Society. 21. 148-165.
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2016). Gender, Fitness Doping and the Genetic Max : The Ambivalent Construction of Muscular Masculinities in an Online Community. Social Sciences. 5. 1-13.
- Andreasson, J. (2015). Reconceptualising the Gender of Fitness Doping : Performing and Negotiating Masculinity through Drug-Use Practices. Social Sciences. 4. 546-562.
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2015). From exercise to "exertainment" : Body techniques and body philosophies within a differentiated fitness culture. Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum. 6. 27-45.
- Andreasson, J. (2014). ‘Shut up and squat!’ : Learning body knowledge within the gym. Ethnography and Education. 9. 1-15.
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2014). The Fitness Revolution : Historical Transformations in the Global Gym and Fitness Culture.. Sport Science Review. XXIII. 91-112.
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2013). Female Fitness in the Blogosphere : Gender, Health, and the Body. SAGE Open. 3. 1-10.
- Andreasson, J. (2013). Between Performance and Beauty : Towards a sociological understanding of trajectories to drug use in a gym and bodybuilding context.. Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum. 4. 69-90.
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2013). The Health Guru : Masculinity and Fitness Coaching in the Blogosphere. Journal of Men's Studies. 21. 277-290.
- Andreasson, J., Lalander, P. (2007). Mellan idrottslig disciplin och gränslöst supande. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 24. 461-480.
- Andreasson, J. (2005). Pojkflickan, fotbollsflatan och alla andra. Myt och verklighet i svensk damfotboll. I Kulturella Perspektiv. Svensk etnologisk tidsskrift, nr 1:2005. Stockholm: Carlsson Bokförlag.
Conference paper (Refereed)
- Sverkersson, E., Andreasson, J. (2019). Fitness doping and the female body : Negotiating gender and contesting the limits of the body through drug use practices. Narrowing paths - tansgressive routes : Youth in changing times: new forms of inequality, risk and resistance.
- 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.
- 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..
- Andréasson, F., Andreasson, J., Hanson, E. (2017). Developing a Carer Identity and Negotiating Everyday Life Through Social Networking Sites. Poster presented at: IAGG 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.
Book (Refereed)
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2020). Fitness Doping : Trajectories, Gender, Bodies and Health. Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan.
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2019). Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies : Gender, Identities & Bodies in Motion. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
- Johansson, T., Andreasson, J. (2017). Fatherhood in Transition : Masculinity, Identity and Everyday Life. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2014). The Global Gym : Gender, Health and Pedagogies. Basingstoke, Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan.
Chapter in book (Refereed)
- 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.
Article in journal (Other academic)
- Forss, C., Andreasson, J. (2017). Att äga konversationen : Linnea Claeson om idrott, näthat och motmakt. Idrottsforum.org/Nordic sport science forum.
- Stenberg, E., Andreasson, J. (2016). Ett idrottsvetenskapligt glastak?. Idrottsforum.org/Nordic sport science forum.
- Andreasson, J., Danielsson, T. (2016). Elitmotionärens vardag - familjeliv, tidspussel och extremidrott. Idrottsforskning.
- Tugetam, Å., Andreasson, J. (2015). Stor potential i gymträning för äldre. Svensk Idrottsforskning : Organ för Centrum för Idrottsforskning. 2.
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2014). Gymkulturen balanserar på könsgränserna. Svensk Idrottsforskning : Organ för Centrum för Idrottsforskning. 4. 29-33.
- Andreasson, J. (2011). I viljan att prestera. Svensk Idrottsforskning : Organ för Centrum för Idrottsforskning. 20. 8-12.
- Andreasson, J. (2010). Fotbollens arbetarklass. Svensk Idrottsforskning : Organ för Centrum för Idrottsforskning. 11-16.
Conference paper (Other academic)
- 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. .
Book (Other academic)
- Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2015). Fitnessrevolutionen : Kropp, hälsa och gymkulturens globalisering. Stockholm, Carlsson Bokförlag.
Chapter in book (Other academic)
- 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., 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. (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.
Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
- Andreasson, J. (2007). Idrottens kön. Genus, kropp och sexualitet i lagidrottens vardag. Doctoral Thesis. 267.
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.
Article, book review (Other academic)
- Andreasson, J. (2018). Muskler, maskulinitet och motionsdoping. Idrottsforum.org/Nordic sport science forum.
- Andreasson, J. (2014). Bodybuilding in practice and in representation : A subcultural and subjective odyssey. Idrottsforum.org/Nordic sport science forum.