This book presents a series of fascinating case studies that show how the lives and bodies of clubs, players and fans around the world are enmeshed with politics.
This book presents a series of fascinating case studies that show how the lives and bodies of clubs, players and fans around the world are enmeshed with politics.
It draws on original research in countries including England, Scotland, Ireland, Poland, Mexico, Algeria and Argentina and includes both historical and contemporary perspectives. It explores some of the most important themes in the study of sport, including sectarianism, migration, fan activism and national identity, and shows how football continues to be tied to political events, symbols and movements.
This is fascinating reading for any student or researcher working in sport studies, political science, sociology or contemporary history.
Introduction: Understanding the Connection Between Football, Identity
and (P)politics,
1. Show Respect to Our Anthem: Identity Politics and
National Team Football in Northern Ireland,
2. From Billy Boys to Ulster
Boys?: Sectarianism, Northern Ireland Supporters, and the Emergence of the
Green and White Army,
3. Two Sides Still at Play 20 Years After the Good
Friday Agreement,
4. Poppies in the Field: The Spectacularization of
Military Remembrance in British Football,
5. Football in French Algeria and
Algerian France: From Colonisation to Globalisation,
6. Enduring Passions:
Football, Peronism and the Politics of National Identity in Argentina,
7.
Defenders of European Culture Refugee Crisis, Football Hooliganism, and
the Right-Wing Shift in Europe,
8. Ehhhhh pu!... what?: A Critical
Conversation about Mexican Football Fandom and the Word at the Center of a
Homophobic Chant,
9. Regional Politics of Place-Making and (Un)Belonging
through Language at a Derby Football Match in the South of the Netherlands,
10. Rescuing Football Clubs by Supporters: The Role and Forms of Social
Capital,
11. The Political Economy of Grassroots Football: From Obscurity to
Austerity
James Carr is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland.
Daniel Parnell is Senior Lecturer in Sport Business at the University of Liverpool, UK.
Paul Widdop is Senior Lecturer in Sport Business Management, Leeds Beckett University, UK.
Martin J. Power is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland.
Stephen R. Millar is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
