Mickael Correia

A People's History of Football

Übersetzer: Petch, Fionn

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A unique people's history of football, providing a global and diverse perspective from its origins to the present day

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Produktdetails

• People's History
• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 140mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780745346861
• ISBN-10: 0745346863
• Artikelnr.: 68317241

Autorenporträt

Mickaël Correia is a journalist at Mediapart. He is the author of several books, and his work focuses on social and ecological struggles as well as working-class culture. He has written for Le Monde Diplomatique, Le Canard Enchaîné and La Revue du Crieur. His passion for football began when he was 4, with kickabouts on the streets of Roubaix.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Football grounds, grounds of struggle
Part I: Defend: Working class resistance to the bourgeois order
1. Kicking off: Riotous balls and social control
2. Normalising bodies, shaping minds: The birth of an industrial sport
3. The people's game: Football as a cultural trait of the working class
4. The Munitionnettes: The saga of the first women football players in
Britain
5. Class against class: Working-class football in France, an extension of
the field of struggle
Part II: Attack: Assault on dictatorships
6. 'A small way of saying "no"': Italy, the USSR, Spain: stadiums under
totalitarian regimes
7. Ball at the feet against the iron fist: Football's resistance to Nazi
domination
8. 'Corinthian democracy': Football and self-organisation against the
Brazilian dictatorship
9. On the front line, Tahrir Square: Ultras Ahlawy fans at the heart of the
2011 revolution in Egypt
Part III: Dribble: Outmanoeuvring colonialism 
10. The Algerian Independence Eleven: A liberation struggle in football
boots
11. When Palestine occupies the pitch: Football as a political weapon in
the hands of the Palestinians
12. Dribbling the ball, a decolonial art: Afro-Brazilian identities and
indigenous resistance in football
13. Sending colonialism off: Football and emancipation struggles in
sub-Saharan Africa
Part IV: Support: Collective passions and popular cultures
14. 'You'll Never Walk Alone': Hooliganism and subcultures in British
stands
15. The twelfth man: The Italian ultras movement: from political militancy
to supporter autonomy
16. 'God and the devil': Maradona, between popular passion and fan cult
17. 'We are lovers, not fighters': Istanbul's ultras and Turkish power
Part V: Outflank: Facing the football industry: fight and reinvent
18. Football for footballers!: From May'68 to the fans' revolt
19. Tackling sexism: Women's football against the French sporting
patriarchy
20. "Here it's about punk football": Fan-owned clubs in England
21. Play on the left wing: Hamburg's FC Sankt Pauli or the pirates of the
football business
22. Wild balls, balls on the margins: Street football wrong-foots at the
institutional game
Postscript to the English edition
Endnotes
Acknowledgments
Index