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Author:   Kausik Bandyopadhyay ,  Souvik Naha ,  Shakya Mitra
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.376kg
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9780367530495

ISBN 10:   036753049
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   31 March 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction 1. FIFA World Cup and beyond: sport, culture, media and governance Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Souvik Naha and Shakya Mitra FIFA World Cup and the Nation 2. A second ‘Maracanazo’? The 2014 FIFA World Cup in historical perspective Kevin Moore 3. Reporting the 2014 World Cup: football first and social issues last Helton Levy 4. Risk and (in)security of FIFA football World Cups – outlook for Russia 2018 Donna Wong and Simon Chadwick 5. The language of football: a cultural analysis of selected world cup nations Niels N. Rossing and Lotte S. Skrubbeltrang 6. Conflicting traditions: the FIFA World Cup, Australia and football identities Binoy Kampmark 7. Amnesia and animosity: an assessment of soccer in the States David Kilpatrick Sport, Culture, Media and Governance 8. The art of goalkeeping: memorializing Lev Yashin Mike O’Mahony 9. Politics and international fandom in a fringe nation: La Albiceleste, Maradona, and Marxist Kolkata Sarbajit Mitra and Souvik Naha 10. Soccer and the city: the game and its fans in Solo and Yogyakarta Andy Fuller 11. Women’s time? Time and temporality in women’s football Kath Woodward 12. Making sense of race/ethnicity and gender in televised football: reception research among British students Rens Peeters and Jacco van Sterkenburg 13. FIFA, the video game: a major vehicle for soccer’s popularization in the United States Andrei S. Markovits and Adam I. Green 14. Stakeholder governance and Irish sport David Hassan and Ian O’Boyle

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Kausik Bandyopadhyay is Professor of History at West Bengal State University, India. He was a former Fellow of the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland. A Deputy Executive Editor of Soccer & Society (Routledge), his most recent works include Mahatma on the Pitch: Gandhi and Cricket in India (2017) and Sport, Culture and Nation: Perspectives from Indian Football and South Asian Cricket (2015). Souvik Naha has a PhD in History from the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. An Editor of Soccer & Society (Routledge), he has published his research in journals such as International Journal of the History of Sport, Sport in Society, Soccer & Society, Sport in History, and Economic and Political Weekly, as well as in various edited volumes. Shakya Mitra is a post graduate in Sports Management from Stirling University, Scotland. He has worked in the Sports Management Industry as well as in the media in India for close to eight years. He has contributed articles to international journals and co-edited special issues of Routledge journals on sport.

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