Jesper Andreasson

Professor

Department of Sport Science Faculty of Social Sciences

jesper.andreasson@lnu.se

+46 480-44 60 91

+46 72-594 17 90

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

Ethnographic Forum Ethnographic Forum is a research group where members share a common interest in qualitative and ethnographic fieldwork. The group consists of researchers and graduate students from…
Health, Gender and Embodiment Health, Gender and Embodiment is an interdisciplinary research group consisting of both national and international scholars, including senior researchers and doctoral…
Social Work and Migration In the research group Social Work and Migration, we study opportunities and challenges that social work faces in relation to migration and migration’s consequences on…

My ongoing research projects

My completed research projects

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
Stenberg, E., Andreasson, J. (2016). Ett idrottsvetenskapligt glastak?. Idrottsforum.org/Nordic sport science forum. (September 9).
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Danielsson, T. (2016). Elitmotionärens vardag - familjeliv, tidspussel och extremidrott. Idrottsforskning. (18 maj).
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)

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.
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.
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). 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.D. (2024). Rethinking Sport and Social Issues. Basel, MDPI.
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. .
Rindhagen, C., Andreasson, J. (2023). In the absence of testosterone: : Hormonal treatment, masculinity, and health among prostate cancer patients in physical training. .
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). 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., 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. (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. .
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.