Children, sports politics and stable work in late twentieth-century Sweden

• The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate in what way children have been the focus of political discussions connected to sports – here especially equestrian sports – during the second half of the 20th century. Special focus will be how children are fostered within sports and how it is possible that rearing methods have influenced who – boys or girls - do what sport. Unfortunately very little is done so far within the field on children as political actors – even though I believe there is a potential for a research project focusing on that within sports as – at least within so called Nordic Sports model - children were supposed to be trained into citizenship through sports. Whether rearing for citizenship has actually been the outcome is questionable.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi -- Historia (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology -- History (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Children

Childhood

Gender

Sports

Sports politic

Publication and Content Type

vet (subject category)

kon (subject category)