Overview
- Provides an innovative contribution to the literature on football stadiums
- Illustrate how football stadiums can become stages of political antagonism
- Offers an interdisciplinary approach that will be of interest to students and researchers in various fields
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Historical Case Studies
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Front Matter
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Contemporary Case Studies
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Front Matter
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Protest Cultures
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Front Matter
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Outlook
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About this book
This book focuses on the football stadium as a political space and examines how stadiums can be viewed as the objects and catalysts of political change. Rather than acting as functional constructions designed merely to host football games, stadiums stand out in the urban landscape as landmarks that serve as gathering points for large communities.
The manifestation of the political in football stadiums can be heard in the discontent voiced by supporter activism; in the use of stadiums for national and local identity politics; in attempts to instrumentalize emotions by both totalitarian and democratic regimes; among fan groups in political uprisings, and in the surveillance of fans through e-tickets and seat allocation.
This edited collection brings together a variety of case studies from a wide range of different contexts. Contributors stem from political science, sociology, history, anthropology, human geography and urbanism. As such, the book redefines andbroadens what we understand as the political dimension of the football stadium.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Başak Alpan is Associate Professor in European Politics and Political Sociology at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
Katarzyna Herd is researcher at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University, Sweden.
Albrecht Sonntag is Professor at the EU-Asia Institute at ESSCA School of Management in Angers, France.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Political Football Stadium
Book Subtitle: Identity Discourses and Power Struggles
Editors: Başak Alpan, Albrecht Sonntag, Katarzyna Herd
Series Title: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29144-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29143-2Published: 02 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29146-3Due: 02 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-29144-9Published: 01 July 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 304
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sport Science , Political Sociology, Human Geography