Ekologisesti kestävä kehitys liikuntahallinnon kysymyksenä : käsitteen tarkastelua teorian ja käytännön näkökulmista

Lihasvoimaa kaupunkiliikenteeseen : suosituksia kävelyn, pyöräilyn ja muiden aktiivisten ja kestävien kulkutapojen edistämiseksi

Extracting locations from sport and exercise-related social media messages using a neural network-based bilingual toponym recognition model

Funding: This study is a part of the “Equality in suburban physical activity environments, YLLI” research project (in Finnish: Yhdenvertainen liikunnallinen lähiö, YLLI). The project is being financed by the research program about suburban in Finland “Lähiöohjelma 2020-2022” coordinated by the Ministry of Environment (grant recipient: Dr. Petteri Muukkonen). Sport and exercise contribute to health and well-being in cities. While previous research has mainly focused on activities at specific locations such as sport facilities, “informal sport” that occur at arbitrary locations across the city have been largely neglected. Such activities are more challenging to observe, but this challenge may…

Luonnossa liikkumisen kulttuuriset representaatiot : diskurssianalyysi suomalaisten luonnossa liikkumista käsittelevistä haastatteluista

Unravelling the rationalities of childhood cycling promotion

Decrease of children’s independent mobility (CIM) has worried academics, policymakers, educators and other professionals for decades. Research and policy often emphasise that promoting children’s physically active and independent transport modes as cycling is important to achieve better public health, solve environmental challenges and increase related economic benefits. Yet, cycling promotion is not a neutral process and all promotion efforts are derived from latent notions of ‘cyclists’ and ‘cycling’. This paper discusses different rationalities of childhood cycling promotion and the representations of ‘children’ as independent ‘cyclists’ they entail. We argue that in order to efficiently…

Liikkumisen esteiden poistaminen vie kohti yhdenvertaisuutta

Väestön liikkumisen lisäämiseksi on keskityttävä esteiden poistamiseen. Liikuntamahdollisuuksien saavutettavuudessa ei ole kyse yksinomaan liikuntapaikkojen tarjonnasta. nonPeerReviewed

Closed due to COVID-19: effects of indoor sports restrictions on suburban adults’ physical activity behaviours

During the COVID-19 pandemic, people have been required adaptations in leisure-time physical activity (PA) especially due to restrictive policies concerning indoor sport facilities (ISF). This study investigated the effects of the constraints on ISF among residents of two low socioeconomic status suburbs in Finland. Research questions were: (1) Are sociodemographic characteristics associated with a reduced use of ISF during the pandemic? (2) Are sociodemographic characteristics associated with changes in the overall PA amount among those respondents with a reduced use of ISF? (3) Is the reduced use of ISF associated with an increased use of other PA environments (home environment, built out…

Voiko ihminen liikkua kuormittamatta ympäristöä?

From intensive car-parenting to enabling childhood velonomy? Explaining parents’ representations of children’s leisure mobilities

Intensive parenting has become a key term for analysing the pressures and priorities of contemporary western parenting culture. For mobility studies it provides a discursive framework for understanding why children’s leisure has shifted from free play and mobility towards various adult-led organised activities and why parents deem it necessary to control children’s leisure journeys in an unprecedented manner. Most of the research on parenting and mobility has explained these trends with urban risks and safeguarding, but this paper highlights how parents also control, manage and enable children’s mobility to resource and enrich them with various dispositions. We use children’s mobility exper…