Football Research in an Enlarged Europe: People, Passions, Politics

Schwell, Alexandra; Buchowski, Micha?; Kowalska, Malgorzata; Szogs, Nina

Football has emerged as an important symbolic field through which various social, cultural, political, economic, and historical dimensions and antagonisms are negotiated. This volume covers a variety of themes illuminating the multiple ways that football impacts on people's everyday lives. Using anthropological research methods and data collected from ethnographic fieldwork, the contributors scrutinize not only the social fields of football fans and the specific socio-cultural contexts in which they are embedded, but also other actors beyond the pitch, and the possibilities for both agency and subversion. Taking into account processes of Europeanization, globalization, commercialization and migration, the collection offers fresh insights into fan identity formations and practices and highlights the importance of anthropology's self-reflexive and actor-centred perspective.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2020-08-31

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349567690

DOI: 10.1057/9781137516985

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 241