Overview
- Deals with the politics and policy-making in the field of football in a comparative perspective
- Systematizes political aspects of the most popular sport in Europe, football
- Crosses a variety of disciplines such as political science, sociology, anthropology, and sports education
Part of the book series: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series (EIT)
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Keywords
- sports and politics
- sociology of sport
- europe
- football and european societies
- field theory
- transnational politics
- power
- sports politics
- German Politics
- Russian Politics
- Commerce
- community
- political institutions
- national identity
- sociology
- sports education
- World Cup
- Bourdieu
- FIFA
- anthropology
About this book
Football, Power, and Politics in Europe deals with the politics and policy-making in the field of football in a comparative perspective. Translated into English for the first time, this book systematizes political actors and their footprints not only in the field of sports, but in the political system as a whole—an approach unique in the broader literature on the societal dimension of sports. It offers an empirical analysis of power exercise with sociological means (field approach of Bourdieu) and helps us to understand the enormous relevance of football/soccer in European societies, shedding light on how (elected and non-elected) power holders use norms inherent to the field of football. While the analysis extends to various European countries and to the international arena (FIFA), Germany and German football are in the centre of interest. Combining insights from political science, sociology, anthropology, and of course, sports studies, this book ultimately seeks to ask: How is political power exerted and controlled in a field where state institutions only have a limited leverage?
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Book Title: Football, Power, and Politics in Europe
Book Subtitle: The German Case in Comparative Perspective
Authors: Timm Beichelt
Series Title: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-55165-9Due: 10 August 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-55168-0Due: 10 August 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-55166-6Due: 10 August 2024
Series ISSN: 2946-3637
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3645
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 262
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
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