Jesper Andreasson

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

Publications

Article in journal (Refereed)

Herz, M., Andreasson, J., Andréasson, F. (2022). The precariousness of asylum-seekers’ care and support : Informal care within and because of the immigration process. International Journal of Care and Caring.
Status: Epub ahead of print
Andreasson, J., Tarrant, A., Johansson, T., Ladlow, L. (2022). Perceptions of gender equality and engaged fatherhood among young fathers : parenthood and the welfare state in Sweden and the UK. Families, Relationships and Societies. XX (XX). 1-18.
Status: Epub ahead of print
Henning, A.D., Andreasson, J. (2022). Preventing, producing, or reducing harm? : Fitness doping risk and enabling environments.. Drugs : education prevention and policy. 29 (1). 95-104.
Status: Published
Henning, A.D., Andreasson, J. (2022). ’There’s a new sheriff in town’ : the Rodchenkov Act, anti-dopism, and the hegemony of WADA in international sport. Sport in Society : Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce. 25 (6). 1160-1175.
Status: Published
Henning, A.D., Andreasson, J. (2021). New frontiers in IPEDs and polydrug use : Knowledge gaps and new perspectives. Performance Enhancement & Health. 9 (3-4).
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Herz, M. (2021). Family practices, deportability and administrative violence : an ethnographic study on asylum seekers' family life in the Swedish migration context. Families, Relationships and Societies.
Status: Epub ahead of print
Henning, A.D., Andreasson, J. (2021). "Yay, Another Lady Starting a Log!" : Women's Fitness Doping and the Gendered Space of an Online Doping Forum. Communication & Sport. 9 (6). 988-1007.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Henning, A.D. (2021). Challenging Hegemony Through Narrative : Centering Women’s Experiences and Establishing a Sis-Science Culture Through a Women-Only Doping Forum. Communication & Sport. 1-22.
Status: Epub ahead of print
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2021). Negotiating female fitness doping : Gender, identity and transgressions. Sport in Society : Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce. 24 (3). 323-339.
Status: Published
Henning, A., Mclean, K., Andreasson, J., Dimeo, P. (2021). Risk and enabling environments in sport : Systematic doping as harm reduction. International journal of drug policy. 9.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2021). Welcome to “Planet Porno” : Masculinity, Sexuality, and Fitness Doping. Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities. 2 (1). 9-30.
Status: Published
Andersson, K., Andreasson, J. (2021). Being a Group Fitness Instructor during the COVID-19 Crisis : Navigating Professional Identity, Social Distancing, and Community. Social Sciences. 10 (4).
Status: Published
Sverkersson, E., Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2020). 'Sis Science' and Fitness Doping : Ethnopharmacology, Gender and Risk. Social Sciences. 9 (4).
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2020). (Un)Becoming a Fitness Doper : Negotiating the Meaning of Illicit drug use in a Gym and Fitness Context. Journal of Sport and Social Issues. 44 (1). 93-109.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2019). Becoming a half-time parent : Fatherhood after divorce. Journal of Family Studies. 25 (1). 2-17.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2019). Bodybuilding and Fitness Doping in Transition. Historical Transformations and Contemporary Challenges. Social Sciences. 8 (3).
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2019). Triathlon Bodies in Motion : Reconceptualizing Feelings of Pain, Nausea and Disgust in the Ironman Triathlon. Body & Society. 25 (2). 119-146.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Henning, A.D. (2019). Glocal fitness doping : Policy, practice and prevention in the United States and Sweden. Performance Enhancement & Health. 6 (3-4). 103-110.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2019). Negotiating violence : mixed martial arts as a spectacle and sport. Sport in Society : Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce. 22 (7). 1183-1197.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2018). Glocalised fitness : the franchising of a physical movement, fitness professionalism and gender. Leisure/ Loisir. 42 (3). 301-321.
Status: Published
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 (11). 2304-2324.
Status: Published
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 (9). 1351-1363.
Status: Published
Johansson, T., Andreasson, J. (2017). The Web of Loneliness : A Netnographic Study of Narratives of Being Alone in an Online Context. Social Sciences. 6 (3).
Status: Published
Johansson, T., Andreasson, J., Mattsson, C. (2017). From Subcultures to Common Culture : Bodybuilders, Skinheads, and the Normalization of the Marginal. SAGE Open. 7 (2). 1-9.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2017). It All Starts Now! : Gay Men and Fatherhood in Sweden. Journal of GLBT Family Studies. 13 (5). 478-497.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2017). The new fitness geography : the globalisation of Japanese gym and fitness culture. Leisure Studies. 36 (3). 383-394.
Status: Published
Johansson, T., Andreasson, J. (2016). The Gym and the Beach : Globalization, Situated Bodies, and Australian Fitness. Journal of contemporary ethnography. 45 (2). 143-167.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2016). Global narratives of fatherhood : Fathering and masculinity on the Internet. International Review of Sociology. 26 (3). 482-496.
Status: Published
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 (2). 148-165.
Status: Published
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 (3). 200-218.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2016). Online doping : The new self-help culture of ethnopharmacology. Sport in Society : Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce. 19 (7). 957-972.
Status: Published
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). 1-13.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J. (2015). Reconceptualising the Gender of Fitness Doping : Performing and Negotiating Masculinity through Drug-Use Practices. Social Sciences. 4. 546-562.
Status: Published
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.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2014). The Fitness Revolution : Historical Transformations in the Global Gym and Fitness Culture.. Sport Science Review. XXIII (3-4). 91-112.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J. (2014). ‘Shut up and squat!’ : Learning body knowledge within the gym. Ethnography and Education. 9 (1). 1-15.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2013). Female Fitness in the Blogosphere : Gender, Health, and the Body. SAGE Open. 3 (July-September). 1-10.
Status: Published
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.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2013). The Health Guru : Masculinity and Fitness Coaching in the Blogosphere. Journal of Men's Studies. 21 (3). 277-290.
Status: Published
Andreasson, J., Lalander, P. (2007). Mellan idrottslig disciplin och gränslöst supande. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 24 (5). 461-480.
Status: Published
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.
Status: Published

Conference paper (Refereed)

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.

Book (Refereed)

Andreasson, J., Henning, A.D. (2021). Performance Cultures and Doped Bodies : Challenging categories, gender norms, and policy responses. Champaign, IL, Common Ground Publishing.
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)

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.
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.

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.

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

Conference paper (Other academic)

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. .

Book (Other academic)

Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2020). Vetenskapsteori : Grunder och tillämpning. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB.
Andreasson, J., Johansson, T. (2015). Fitnessrevolutionen : Kropp, hälsa och gymkulturens globalisering. Stockholm, Carlsson Bokförlag.

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., 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.

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

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.