John Williams

Games Without Frontiers

Football, Identity and Modernity
Herausgeber: Giulianotti, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

This work examines the game of football, asking what makes it so popular, and examining the diversity of its players, supporters and institutions throughout the world. It also investigates how the game reinforces or overcomes social differences, and looks at subcultures like football hooliganism.

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Produktdetails

• Popular Cultural Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 159mm x 225mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 674g
• ISBN-13: 9781138468337
• ISBN-10: 1138468339
• Artikelnr.: 57041962

Autorenporträt

Richard Giulianotti is currently employed by Aberdeen University's Sociology Richard Richard Giulianotti, Department as ESRC Research Assistant on a research project studying Scottish football fan behaviour and related youth sub-cultures, John Williams is Senior Researcher at the Sir Norman Chester Centre for Football Research at Leicester University, UK

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Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: Stillborn in the USA?. Tradition and Modernity in
European Football: Exporting football: notes on the development of Football
in Europe; Austrification as modernisation: changes in Viennese football
culture; We are Celtic supporters...?: questions of football and identity
in modern Scotland; From Saint-Etienne To Marseilles: tradition and
modernity in French soccer and society; The drive to modernization and the
supermarket imperative: who needs a new football stadium? Identities:
Local, Ethnic, National: Rangers is a black club?: race?, identity and
local football in England; Football and identity in the Ruhr: the case of
Schalke 04; Wogball?: ethnicity and violence in Australian soccer;
Masculinity and football: the formation of national identity in Argentina;
The stars and the flags: individuality, collective identities and the
national dimension in Italia '90 and Wimbledon '91 and '92. Subcultures of
opposition: New supporter cultures and identity in France: the case of
Paris Saint-Germain; False Leeds: the construction of hooligan
confrontations; Keep it in the Family?: an outline of Hibs' football
hooligans social ontology; The birth of the ultras?: the rise of football
hooliganism in Italy.