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Daniel Alsarve

Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Health Sciences

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Room: G2142

Research subject

Sport Science

Research environments

About Daniel Alsarve

Daniel Alsarve is an Associate Professor in Sport Science (2021), holds a PhD in History (2014), and is a certified upper-secondary school teacher in Swedish and History. He has also worked as an expert on gender equality and masculinity at RF-SISU Örebro County.

Research

Daniel Alsarve’s research focuses primarily on sport, gender, violence, democracy, and power, from the early twentieth century to the present day. A recurring interest in his research is how norms, power relations, and societal change are expressed within or through sport – in organisations, leadership, everyday practices, and interactions between people.

His research is interdisciplinary and draws on a range of materials and methods, including interviews, historical sources, and analyses of conversation and interaction. In recent years, Alsarve has also worked as an accompanying researcher in violence prevention and gender equality projects, combining research with development work in close collaboration with organisations and other societal actors.

This interdisciplinary approach has resulted in publications across several research fields, including sport science, history, gender studies, organisational studies, and the social sciences.

Teaching

Since 2007, Daniel Alsarve has taught in several areas at the university. Much of his teaching has been linked to the Sport Management Programme, but he has also taught at doctoral level, in teacher education, history and education, as well as on freestanding courses.

His teaching covers topics such as the organisation and societal role of sport, research methods, gender and gender equality, and historical and social scientific perspectives on sport.

Networks and collaborations

Alsarve is co-editor of Sports, History and Society. He has held a postdoctoral position at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and has also been a guest lecturer at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Alsarve is part of the research team CVS - The Centre for Violence Studies and ReSHAPE.

An important part of his work involves collaboration between research and wider society. Alsarve regularly gives lectures on sport, gender equality, violence, masculinity norms, democracy, and history, both within and outside the university.

Active projects

Completed projects

Research groups

Publications

Articles in journals

Stub Nybelius, M. & Alsarve, D. (2026). Even eagles struggle to fly: Matti Nykänen, Eddie the Eagle, and Jan Boklöv in the era of commercialisation, professionalisation, and mediatisation. Sport in Society: Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce, 29 (1), 191-209. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. (2025). The Swedish sports confederation’s management and navigation through the COVID-19 pandemic. Managing Sport and Leisure, 1-18. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. (2024). Achieving gender equity: barriers and possibilities at board level in Swedish sport. European Sport Management Quarterly, 24 (1), 286-302. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. (2024). Amatörhockey eller proffshockey i kalla krigets skugga: Förhandlingen av rådande hegemoni i svensk herrishockey ca 1965–75. Idrott, historia & samhälle, 1 (1), 49-69. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. (2024). Brothers, bruises, and the will to win: a social-ecological hegemony perspective on Swedish ice hockey's past. Sport in Society: Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce, 27 (5), 681-700. [BibTeX]
Tjønndal, A. , Wågan, F. A. & Alsarve, D. (2023). Hockey Dads, Party Boys and Devoted Players? Digital Representations of Men and Masculinities Amongst Norwegian and Swedish Ice Hockey Players. Men and Masculinities, 26 (1), 3-163. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. (2023). Photography, sport and the hegemony of men: a material(-)discursive perspective. Rethinking history, 27 (2), 248-269. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. & Johansson, E. (2022). A gang of ironworkers with the scent of blood: A participation observation of male dominance and its historical trajectories at Swedish semi-professional ice hockey events. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 57 (1), 54-72. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. (2022). Historicizing Machoism in Swedish Ice Hockey. International Journal of the History of Sport, 38 (16), 1688-1709. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. (2021). The need for a violence prevention programme in ice hockey: a case study on how hegemonic masculinity supports and challenges violent behaviour in Swedish ice hockey. European Sport Management Quarterly, 21 (2), 218-236. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. & Angelin, M. (2020). ‘It’s freer and easier in a changing room, because the barriers disappear…’: A case study of masculinity ideals, language and social status amongst Swedish ice hockey players. European Journal for Sport and Society, 17 (1), 26-46. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. & Tjønndal, A. (2020). ‘The Nordic female fighter’: Exploring women’s participation in mixed martial arts in Norway and Sweden. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 55 (4), 471-489. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. (2020). Vägen till en genusmedveten, våldspreventiv modell för den mansdominerade lagidrotten. Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift, 97 (2), 223-234. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. (2018). Addressing gender equality: enactments of gender and hegemony in the educational textbooks used in Swedish sports coaching and educational programmes. Sport, Education and Society, 23 (9), 840-852. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. (2018). ‘Power in the arm, steel in the will and courage in the breast’: a historical approach to ideal norms and men’s dominance in Swedish club sports. Sport in History, 38 (3), 365-402. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. , Jakobsson, J. & Helgesson, J. (2017). Idrottsundervisning och maskulinitetens hegemoni: Genus och inflytande i gymnasieskolans ämne ”Idrott och hälsa”. Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum, 8, 197-219. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. (2017). Våld föder våld, eller?: Om män, sportvåld och formande av hegemonisk manlighet som bidragande riskfaktor till våldet i samhället. Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, 2, 1-14. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. & Svensson, R. (2015). I amatörismens gränsland: Konsekvenser av fotbollstränarens ökade inflytande i den flersektionella idrottsföreningen under det tidiga 1900-talet. Idrott, historia & samhälle, 21-35. [BibTeX]
Alsarve [Arvidsson], D. (2004). Män till sjöss: en studie av manligheter och yrkesidentiteter bland svenska sjömän. Socialhistoria i Linköping, 18 (1). [BibTeX]

Articles, book reviews

Alsarve, D. (2016). Review of Men of the World: genders, globalizations, transnational times by Jeff Hearn. Norma, 11 (1), 66-68. [BibTeX]

Articles, reviews/surveys

Alsarve, D. & Hearn, J. (2026). The sport-gender-violence triad: an analysis of analyses from the 1980s until 2019. Sport in Society: Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce, 1-21. [BibTeX]

Chapters in books

Piggott, L. , Lenneis, V. & Alsarve, D. (2025). Intersectional Perspectives on Digitized Sports Cultures. In: Anne Tjønndal; Riikka Turtiainen; Kirsten Frandsen; Egil Trasti Rogstad, Women in a Digitized Sports Culture: Nordic Perspectives (pp. 13-30). . Routledge. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. (2024). Sport, Instagram, and masculinities: Hybrid and hegemonic traits amongst hockey-playing men in Sweden. In: Inês Amaral, Rita Basílio de Simões, Sofia José Santos, Renegotiating Masculinities in European Digital Spheres. New York: Routledge. [BibTeX]
Svensson Primus, R. , Alsarve, D. & Svensson, D. (2023). Between Grassroots Democracy and Professional Commercialism in Sweden. In: Mihaly Szerovay; Arto Nevala; Hannu Itkonen, Football in the Nordic countries: practices, equality and influence (pp. 64-76). London: Routledge. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. & Gregory, M. R. (2023). Beyond the public light: Political strongmen, masculine embodiment and sports organizations. In: Jeff Hearn; Kadri Aavik; David L. Collinson; Anika Thym, Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations: Theories, Practices and Future of Organizing. London: Routledge. [BibTeX]
Arvidsson [Alsarve], D. (2009). Fältbegrepp som kritik över källkritiken. In: Christer Ahlberger, Historier: arton- och nittonhundratalens skönlitteratur som historisk källa (pp. 24-32). Göteborg: Institutionen för historiska studier, Göteborgs universitet. [BibTeX]

Conference papers

Primus, R. S. , Quennerstedt, M. , Alsarve, D. & Varea, V. (2026). Elite Sport is not for Every Body: Imaginary Positions of Masculine Athlete Bodies. Paper presented at World Association for Sport Management Conference (WASM), Cape Town, South Africa, 3-6 March, 2026. [BibTeX]
Primus, R. S. , Quennerstedt, M. , Alsarve, D. & Varea, V. (2025). Elite Sport is not for Every Body: Navigating Imaginary Positions of Masculine Athlete Bodies. In: The Research Day of the Faculty of Medicine and Health 2025, Örebro, April 28, 2025. Paper presented at Medicine and Health Research Day, Örebro, April 28, 2025. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. (2019). Is There a Need for a Violence Prevention Programme in Ice Hockey?. In: Breitbarth, Tim, Bodet, Guillaume, Fernández Luna, Álvaro, Burillo Naranjo, Pablo & Bielons, Gerardo, Book of Abstracts. Paper presented at The 27th European Sport Management Conference: Connecting Sport Practice & Science, Seville, Spain, 3-6 September, 2091. (pp. 776-777). Seville: EASM. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. (2018). Sport and its potential as a violent preventive arena. In: World Congress of Sociology of Sport ISSA 2018 ABSTRACTS. Paper presented at 2018 World Congress of Sociology of Sport (ISSA 2018), Lausanne, Switzerland, June 5-8, 2018. (pp. 48-48). [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. , Wallin, S. & Bergvall Virtanen, P. (2016). Managing Progression: Örebro Sports County's Efforts to Reduce Gender Gap and Increase Gender Equality. In: Håkan Larsson, SVEBI 2016. Paper presented at SVEBI (Svensk Förening för Beteende- och Samhällsvetenskaplig Idrottsforskning), Örebro, Sweden, 16-17 November, 2016. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. (2016). The Art of Being Big, Strong and Full of Power: Swedish Combat Sports, Norms and Gender from the 1990s up until today. In: 9th Meeting of the Transnational Working Group for the Study of Gender and Sport 24th-26th November 2016, Bochum, Germany. Paper presented at 9th Meeting of the Transnational Working Group for the Study of Gender and Sport, Bochum, Germany, 24th-26th November 2016. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. (2015). A repertoire of possibilities: visualized masculinities in a Swedish sportsclub 1908-09. In: Radmann, A., Hedenborg, S., Tsolakidis, E., Book of abstracts. Paper presented at 20th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, Malmö, Sweden, June 24-27, 2015. (pp. 280-280). European College of Sport Science. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. (2015). Föreställningar om maskuliniteter och feminiteter i idrottens ledarskapslitteratur. In: Håkan Larsson och Marie Öhman, Program SVEBI 2015. Paper presented at Svensk Förening för Beteende- och Samhällsvetenskaplig Idrottsforskning (SVEBI 2015), Linnéuniversitetet, Växjö, Sweden, November 11-12, 2015. Växjö: Linnéuniversitet. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. (2015). In The Name of Democracy: Varieties and continuities of associative sports masculinities at club level during the 20th century. Paper presented at 8th Meeting of Transnational Scholars for the Study of Gender and Sport, Basel, Switzerland, November 26-28, 2015. [BibTeX]
Svensson, R. & Alsarve, D. (2015). The difficulty of killing two birds with one stone: Fostering competitive athletes and democratic citizens in a Swedish Sports Club between the 1960s and 1980s. In: European College of Sport Science (ECSS). Paper presented at European College of Sport Science (ECSS)20th annual congress of the European College of Sport Science, Malmö, June 24-27, 2015. [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. & Svensson, R. (2014). I amatörismens gränsland?: konsekvenser av fotbollstränarens professionalisering i 1920-talets flersektionella idrottsförening. In: Svenska historikermötet, 2014. Paper presented at Svenska historikermötet, Stockholm, Sweden, 8-10 maj, 2014. Stockholm: [BibTeX]
Arvidsson, D. (2008). Fältbegrepp som historisk metod. In: Skönlitteratur som historisk källa 1800-2000. Historiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet: [BibTeX]
Arvidsson, D. (2007). Sports for society or sports for stars?. Paper presented at Sport in a Global World - Past, Present and Future, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 31 - August 5, 2007. [BibTeX]

Doctoral theses, monographs

Alsarve [Arvidsson], D. (2014). I ständig strävan efter framgång?: föreningsdemokratins innehåll och villkor i Örebro Sportklubb 1908-89. (Doctoral dissertation). Örebro: Örebro universitet. [BibTeX]

Reports

Alsarve, D. (2024). Riksidrottsförbundets hantering av coronapandemin. Stockholm: Riksidrottsförbundet (Riksidrottsförbundets FoU-serie 2024:2). [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. & Strand, S. (2023). Idrottens ansvar att förebygga mäns våld mot kvinnor.. (Centrum för idrottsforskning 2023:3 ). [BibTeX]
Alsarve, D. (2022). ldrott, jämställdhet och organisatorisk makt: Möjligheter och hinder för kvinnor och män att nå höga ledarpositioner inom lagidrott.. Örebro universitet. [BibTeX]