This pioneering study of amateur fútbol (soccer) clubs in Chile reveals how the world's most popular sport has served to engage citizens in local and national politics and support democratic practices.
The global game: writers on soccer
"The world's most popular sport, soccer, is also one of the planet's prevalent cultural expressions, celebrated and debated as an art form, observed with ritual and passion. Thus it has inspired literary efforts of every sort, from every corner of the globe, by women and men. Th…
"The world's most popular sport, soccer, is also one of the planet's prevalent cultural expressions, celebrated and debated as an art form, observed with ritual and passion. Thus it has inspired literary efforts of every sort, from every corner of the globe, by women and men. Th…
"A Game for Rough Girls? is the first text to theorise properly the development of the game. Examining recreational and elite levels, the author provides a thorough critique, placing women's experience in the context of broader cultural and sports studies debates on social chan…
"A Game for Rough Girls? is the first text to theorise properly the development of the game. Examining recreational and elite levels, the author provides a thorough critique, placing women's experience in the context of broader cultural and sports studies debates on social chan…
"Football constitutes a vivid public ritual in contemporary European culture through which emergent social solidarities and new economic networks have come into being. This volume traces the transformation of European football from the 1950s to the present, focusing in particula…
We cannot answer the question 'what is Europe?' except by focusing on the reality of Europe as it is lived by individuals in differing circumstances across this north-western peninsula of the Eurasian continent. This text uses the example of European football to provide one poss…
This work provides an overview of the interrelationships within key globalization processes and the international sport of football. It combines the conceptual and methodological aspects of global studies with the specific cultural conditions of the 'beautiful game'.
"The complex relationship between nationalism and masculinity has been explored both historically and sociologically with one consistent conclusion: male concepts of courage and virility are at the core of nationalism. In this book, the author questions this assumption and advan…
Football, Nationality and the State examines the complex and ever-changing relationship between football (its development and structure), nationality and the state. Divided into two parts the book first deals with the existence of more than one football nation within the same po…
Football, Nationality and the State examines the complex and everchanging relationships between football (its development and structure), nationality and the state, arguing that these divisions may result from football's early history.
Umschlag -- Titel -- Inhalt -- Frank Bajohr / Anselm Doering-Manteuffel /Claudia Kemper / Detlef Siegfried: Einleitung -- Ein Ausgangspunkt -- Axel Schildt: Fünf Möglichkeiten, die Geschichte der Bundesrepublik zu erzählen -- Kollektive Sozialisationen -- Michael Wildt: Die Bund…