Games Without Frontiers: Football, Identity and Modernity

Author:   John Williams ,  Richard Giulianotti
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138468337


Pages:   356
Publication Date:   18 December 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   John Williams ,  Richard Giulianotti
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.890kg
ISBN:  

9781138468337


ISBN 10:   1138468339
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   18 December 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Contents: Introduction: Stillborn in the USA?. Tradition and Modernity in European Football: Exporting football: notes on the development of Football in Europe; Austrification as modernisation: changes in Viennese football culture; We are Celtic supporters...: questions of football and identity in modern Scotland; From Saint-Etienne To Marseilles: tradition and modernity in French soccer and society; The drive to modernization and the supermarket imperative: who needs a new football stadium? Identities: Local, Ethnic, National: Rangers is a black club: race, identity and local football in England; Football and identity in the Ruhr: the case of Schalke 04; Wogball: ethnicity and violence in Australian soccer; Masculinity and football: the formation of national identity in Argentina; The stars and the flags: individuality, collective identities and the national dimension in Italia ’90 and Wimbledon ’91 and ’92. Subcultures of opposition: New supporter cultures and identity in France: the case of Paris Saint-Germain; False Leeds: the construction of hooligan confrontations; Keep it in the Family: an outline of Hibs’ football hooligans social ontology; The birth of the ultras: the rise of football hooliganism in Italy.

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Richard Giulianotti is currently employed by Aberdeen University's Sociology Richard Richard Giulianotti, Department as ESRC Research Assistant on a research project studying Scottish football fan behaviour and related youth sub-cultures, John Williams is Senior Researcher at the Sir Norman Chester Centre for Football Research at Leicester University, UK

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