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- Discusses complex spatial practices which bring a nuanced understanding of football fandom to the field
- Brings fresh theoretical ideas to the field of leisure studies
- Addresses the relative paucity of knowledge on the topic of travelling football supporters
Part of the book series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era (LSGE)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Through these five chapters, Ian Woolsey asks how the collective responses of travelling football supporters to these major societal currents and changes within the game; liquid modernity and the post-1989 transformation of English football, are managed via the distinct and oft-competing processes of social spacing in football. An important inspiration for the book is the work of Zygmunt Bauman, particularly his ideas on cognitive, aesthetic, and moral ‘spacings’ as a social production. Ian Woolsey’s powerful and persuasive application of these ideas not only extends Bauman’s focus on the ‘politics’ of power in public space to include a consideration of leisure but in so doing shows that ethnography, selectively conducted and theoretically informed, can provide data for a rich, sociological account of a football world.
The book will be of interest to researchers and scholars of sociology of leisure, sociology of sport, criminology, and cultural studies.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Psychology, Sociology & Politics, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
Ian Woolsey
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Football Fans and Social Spacing
Book Subtitle: Power and Control in a Modernising Landscape
Authors: Ian Woolsey
Series Title: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74532-5
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 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74531-8Published: 10 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74534-9Published: 11 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74532-5Published: 09 June 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-3173
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 170
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Geography, Social Structure, Social Inequality