Why Fans Matter? (eBook, ePUB)

Fans and Identities in the Soccer World
Redaktion: Bandyopadhyay, Kausik

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the meanings, significances, and impacts of the complex identities that soccer fans, especially those of men's soccer, represent worldwide. The chapters in this volume construct and reconstruct fandom in terms of diverse fan affiliations from local to global level, and from national to transnational spaces.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040222942
• Artikelnr.: 72275536

Autorenporträt

Kausik Bandyopadhyay is Professor of History at West Bengal State University, Kolkata, India. Formerly a Fellow of the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne and the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, he is also Deputy Executive Academic Editor of Soccer and Society (Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: perspectives on fans and identities in soccer 1. Race and
whiteness in football talk amongst English fans: audience receptions of
televised national team coverage 2. 'Liverpool daft': the growth of British
football clubs' supporters' clubs in the late twentieth century in Ireland
- a history 3. The end of terraces? Fans' identity in times of crisis in
Poland 4. Why win a World Cup? Thirty-six years of football and
nation(alisms) in Argentina 5. Multiple football codes and their
spectators, fans and supporters in Australia 6. Club, nation, player:
conflicted fan identities in African soccer 7. Becoming a Chinese football
fan: an examination of the influence of national and local identities on
the development of Chinese football fandom 8. 'Could have been a god but
chose to be a Devil'. The 2004 European Championships and Wayne Rooney's
departure from Everton Football Club 9. Does anyone care where they are
from? The importance of locally trained players in English football 10.
'You, me, we': shared identities of African professional footballers'
diaspora in Thailand 11. 'Weeping at Vasermil': players, fans and tears
12. The role of soccer and identity in Egyptian society: fans and players
13. Symbolic identities in football: a view from political science 14.
Taking sides in conflict and the question of antisemitism in Scottish
football 15. 'Brigate Verde...a terrible beauty is born': an exploratory
examination of the social leadership of the Green Brigade 16. Eurocentric
globalization of football. Coloniality, consumption, social distinction and
identities of transnational fans in Latin America 17. East Bengal-Mohun
Bagan football fans and Indian politics: parochialism and nationalism in
simultaneity? 18. Beyond 'good' and 'bad' fans: exploring the mechanisms
enabling football fans' position as a stakeholder in the management of
circulations 19. Africa united: exploring the fandoms around the African
Men's Qatar 2022 World Cup teams among fans in Harare, Zimbabwe 20.
Victory for Africa or the Arab world? Moroccan nationalism, Arab
exceptionalism, pan-African solidarity and digital fandom during the 2022
FIFA World Cup 21. Nationalism or cosmopolitanism? How Chinese football
fans viewed the Japanese team and Japanese fans during the 2022 Men's World
Cup 22. The quest for authenticity amid activism and sportswashing: a
netnographical study of Chinese satellite fans during the 2022 FIFA Men's
World Cup 23. 'Our team will definitely win the cup': the Keralan support
of Brazil and Argentina during Men's World Cup 2022 Epilogue: The football
commentator and the social commentator: a conversation