Name: Football Culture:Local Conflicts, Global Visions
ISBN: 9780203045152

Book

ABSTRACT

These essays provide a critical investigation of football cultures, examining local and national impacts of the game's new millennial order over five continents.

chapter |9 pages

PROLOGUE: Local Contests and Global Visions: Sporting Difference and International Change

chapter |21 pages

1 A Tale of Two Tribes: Expressive Fandom in Australian Soccer's A-League

chapter |23 pages

2 Contextualizing Suburban Soccer: Consumer Culture, Lifestyle Differentiation and Suburban America

chapter |46 pages

3 Scottish Myopia and Global Prejudices

chapter |18 pages

Football Culture

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |9 pages

PROLOGUE: Local Contests and Global Visions: Sporting Difference and International Change

chapter |21 pages

1 A Tale of Two Tribes: Expressive Fandom in Australian Soccer's A-League

chapter |23 pages

2 Contextualizing Suburban Soccer: Consumer Culture, Lifestyle Differentiation and Suburban America

chapter |46 pages

3 Scottish Myopia and Global Prejudices

chapter |18 pages

4 Football in Cameroon: A Vehicle for the Expansion and Contraction of Identity

chapter |16 pages

5 Football and Fatherland: The Crisis of National Representation in Argentinian Soccer

chapter |21 pages

6 Built by the Two Varelas: The Rise and Fall of Football Culture and National Identity in Uruguay

chapter |18 pages

7 The Production of a Media Epic: Germany v. Italy Football Matches

chapter |39 pages

8 Fanatical Football Chants: Creating and Controlling the Carnival

chapter |18 pages

9 Soccer in Japan: Is Wa all you Need?

chapter |26 pages

10 French Football after the 1998 World Cup: The State and the Modernity of Football

chapter |27 pages

EPILOGUE: Old Visions, Old Issues: New Horizons, New Openings? Change, Continuity and Other Contradictions in World Football

chapter |8 pages

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