Sportification, Power and Control: Ski-Jumping as a Case Study

Article Sidebar

PDF

Main Article Content

Gertrud Pfister
Institute of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Article Details

Issue
No. 8 (2007): control
Section
Articles

Authors should note that in the spirit of open access to research Junctures is published under a New Zealand cc-by-nc-nd licence.
This licence is the most stringent cc-by licence currently available that means that people are free to read and redistribute the article but only with full acknowledgement of the author and the source. Although this licence does allow sharing of research, it does not allow any forms of commercial distribution. For more on cc licencing please see: http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/licences_explained__1 If you require your work to be published under a different licence please contact the Junctures Editorial Assistant.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their personal website) with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
Author Biography

Gertrud Pfister, Institute of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Gertrud Pfister is Professor in the Institute of Exercise and Sport Sciences at the University of Copenhagen. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Regensburg and a PhD in Sociology from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. From 1983 to 2001 she was President of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport. In 2004 she was elected as President of the International Sport Sociology Association. Since 1993 she has been the Head of the Scientific Committee of the International Association for Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women, and since 1996 the Vice-president of the German Gymnastic Federation. She has taught as guest-professor at universities in Finland, Canada, Brazil and Chile. She has also been a keynote speaker at numerous congresses; has published numerous books and more than 250 articles. Her main areas of research are sport, culture and society, gender, socialisation, mass media and international comparisons.