Tackling inequities and inequalities related to adolescents' engagement in physical activity and sport is highlighted in recent research. However, rarely addressed are the issues of intersecting hierarchal systems of power that interlocks on both micro and macro levels, affecting how physical activity patterns express social memberships across several contexts. Therefore, this study aimed to explore how adolescents' physical activity during leisure and school hours expressed intersecting social positions and institutional school segregation, using a critical intersectionality approach. Nested in a larger study, a cross-sectional design was applied, including a total of 1139 adolescents in grade 7 (age 13-14) from Swedish school settings. Data was retrieved from surveys, accelerometers, and national registries. Descriptive statistics and stratified analyses were performed to examine levels of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) during school and leisure hours connected to intersecting social positions and school segregation contexts. The statistical analysis indicated that MVPA, to varying extents, expressed both individual social position and school segregation across the sub-groups explored. Inequalities in MVPA were closer connected to intercategorical gendered social positions in school contexts, rather than during leisure hours. However, there were significant intracategorical differences among girls during leisure hours across segregated contexts. Our results suggest that the power structures of school segregation together with educational and sport logics intertwined seem to 'disadvantage' especially girls with a non-ethnically Swedish background. Yet, it also highlights a need to problematize 'the absent minority girl' in equity focused physical activity research. This study emphasizes how an intersectionality approach can shed light on social (dis)advantages connected to adolescents' MVPA from two poles of power, contributing to a more comprehensive and critical understanding of social inequities in physical activity and health research.
This paper seeks to explore the roles of distribution system operators (DSOs) in future energy systems. Measures to combat climate change have led to a transition in the energy sector, where old system fundamentals are becoming obsolete, which results in changing rules for incumbent actors, such as DSOs. These actors must uphold heavily regulated operations within their distribution networks, while landscape trends are changing with a growing number of prosumers and distributed energy resources. To understand these future roles and increase the preparedness for future scenarios and facilitate thinking beyond current lock-ins, action-oriented workshops were held with two Swedish DSOs, departing from pre-developed future imaginaries, structured through transition theory. Researchers were actively involved in the workshops, to guide the participants in the discussions and to provide additional knowledge from transition processes. This was structured through transition theory, mainly in terms of linking transition management fundamentals to the topics in the workshops and basing the workshop discussions on an imagined future socio-technical system-wide approach using four focus areas. Results included descriptions of roles within future energy systems and their connection to specified value logics from different target groups which would, from the DSO perspective, create value in a future energy system. Roles included sustainable developer, facilitator for increased collaboration, balancing actor, and communicator. In addition, competence requirements were outlined concerning the described roles. The future logic was also described in a conceptual value model for an active DSO in a prosumer-oriented energy system, creating value in all different value logics. Moreover, it provided the steps necessary to develop a pathway aimed at the transformation of DSOs. The study provided a constructive approach for DSOs to prepare for a future, more prosumer-oriented and flexible energy system, avoiding being locked in current system thinking and focusing on necessary roles and competencies suitable for a DSO. In addition, the utilization of the value logics approach helped place the prosumers in a differentiated manner, which can have implications for strategies among DSOs to create the necessary relations and collaborations for an efficient and value-creating future energy system.
