Trygve B. Broch is a professor of cultural sociology at the Department of Public Health and Sport Sciences, at the University of Inland Norway. He joins anthropology, sociology and emotion-oriented social theory to elucidate the complex intersections of elite, youth and children’s sports, as well as to theorize sport’s democratic prospects and the sport actor’s meaning making about social inequalities. For this purpose, he has worked extensively on joining cultural sociology theories on materiality, social performance, the civil sphere, with cultural theories on the body, play and identities. Methodologically, Broch combines media and document analyses with ethnographic methods to explain how public meanings about sports are adopted and translated within sport organizations and interactions. He is the author of A performative feel for the game. How meaningful sports shape gender, bodies and social life (Palgrave, 2020), The Ponytail: Icon, movement and the modern sports(woman) (Palgrave 2023), and editor of the 2022 SI on sports in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology.
