Football is the most widely played, watched and studied sport in the world. It's hard to develop a full understanding of the significance of sport in global society without understanding the significance of football. This is the first book designed to support the study of football on degree-level courses, across the full range of social-scientific perspectives. Written by a team of leading international football experts, it introduces key themes in football studies such as history, media, politics, fandom, business, race, gender and celebrity. Every chapter includes up-to-date case study…mehr
Football is the most widely played, watched and studied sport in the world. It's hard to develop a full understanding of the significance of sport in global society without understanding the significance of football. This is the first book designed to support the study of football on degree-level courses, across the full range of social-scientific perspectives. Written by a team of leading international football experts, it introduces key themes in football studies such as history, media, politics, fandom, business, race, gender and celebrity. Every chapter includes up-to-date case study material and features to aid student understanding and bring theory to life.
Ellis Cashmore is the author of Making Sense of Sports, Celebrity Culture (both Routledge) and Beckham (Polity). He is visiting professor of sociology at Aston University, UK and tweets @elliscashmore Kevin Dixon is the author of Consuming Football in Late Modern Life (Ashgate), "A woman's place recurring: Structuration, football fandom and sub-cultural subservience" (in Sport in Society) and co-editor of The Impact of the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games: Diminishing Contrasts, Increasing Varieties (Palgrave). He is senior lecturer of sports studies at Teesside University, UK and tweets @KevinDixon20
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