Dino Numerato

Football Fans, Activism and Social Change (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores football fan activism and its impact on contemporary football culture in England, Italy and the Czech Republic. Offering original insights into the power of fan activism to influence social change, this book also has wider implications for understanding social movements in other cultural and political spheres beyond Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317432715
• Artikelnr.: 56833032

Autorenporträt

Dino Numerato is Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He obtained his PhD from Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic) and was a Research Fellow at Loughborough University (Loughborough, UK), Bocconi University (Milan, Italy) and Sapienza University (Rome, Italy). His principal research interests include football fandom, social theory, sport governance, sport policy, mass media and sport, corruption in sport and match-fixing, and the sociology of health-care professionals. His work has also been published in Sociology, Current Sociology, Qualitative Research, Journal of Consumer Culture, Sociology of Health and Illness, Journal of Sport and Social Issues and International Review for the Sociology of Sport.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Wind of Change: An Introduction 2. The Football Fan Activism Complex
3.Fan Activism in National and Transnational Contexts 4. Reflexivity and
Social Change 5. Fans' Struggle Over Policing, Security Measures and
Criminalization 6. Fans' Struggle Over Socio-Cultural Aspects: Identities,
Symbols and Rituals 7. Fans' Struggle Over Governance: Mismanagement,
Involvement and Ownership 8. Discussion and Conclusions