Ethnography of English Football Fans - Cans, Cops and Carnivals

Informationen zum Autor Geoff Pearson is Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool's Management School Klappentext Ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years' participant observationEthnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years' participant observation -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction2. Ethnography: theory, method and practice 3. The football carnival 4. Identity and expression 5. Fans or hooligans? 6. Authority and social control 7. Alcohol and the effectiveness of alcohol controls 8. Attitudes to gender, sexuality, race and disability 9. The impact of technology 10. Conclusions ReferencesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Geoff Pearson, Pearson Geoff
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2014
• EAN: 9780719095405
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9540-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: New Ethnographies; New Ethnographies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); England, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Holidays (non-religious), Sociology: sport & leisure, Sociology: sport and leisure, Social and cultural anthropology