Self-organized sports and place: a narrative review accompanied by Gilles Deleuze.

Since the turn of the millennium, the practice of sport has changed significantly as more and more people leave club sports in favor of self-organized sports. A common feature of this change is the need of other spatial conditions than traditional sport facilities. Simultaneously, self-organized sports have largely been overlooked within policy and programs seeking to improve today's sport facilities. The aim of this narrative review is therefore to provide a comprehensive understanding of self-organized sports and their social-spatial needs. From the databases SCOPUS, SportDiscus and ProQuest Social Sciences 66 articles are linked together for reinterpretation and development of three theoretical discussions that are accompanied by Deleuze's philosophy of immanence: The flatness, motion, and the responsivity of self-organized sports. Taking these theoretical aspects into account, it is concluded that self-organized sports need not fully defined places open for unpredictable encounters and that enable speculations of what can be created. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]