Read more
This work examines the game of football, asking what makes it so popular, and examining the diversity of its players, supporters and institutions throughout the world. It also investigates how the game reinforces or overcomes social differences, and looks at subcultures like football hooliganism.
List of contents
Contents: Introduction: Stillborn in the USA?. Tradition and Modernity in European Football: Exporting football: notes on the development of Football in Europe; Austrification as modernisation: changes in Viennese football culture; We are Celtic supporters...: questions of football and identity in modern Scotland; From Saint-Etienne To Marseilles: tradition and modernity in French soccer and society; The drive to modernization and the supermarket imperative: who needs a new football stadium? Identities: Local, Ethnic, National: Rangers is a black club: race, identity and local football in England; Football and identity in the Ruhr: the case of Schalke 04; Wogball: ethnicity and violence in Australian soccer; Masculinity and football: the formation of national identity in Argentina; The stars and the flags: individuality, collective identities and the national dimension in Italia ’90 and Wimbledon ’91 and ’92. Subcultures of opposition: New supporter cultures and identity in France: the case of Paris Saint-Germain; False Leeds: the construction of hooligan confrontations; Keep it in the Family: an outline of Hibs’ football hooligans social ontology; The birth of the ultras: the rise of football hooliganism in Italy.
About the author
Richard Giulianotti is currently employed by Aberdeen University's Sociology Richard Richard Giulianotti, Department as ESRC Research Assistant on a research project studying Scottish football fan behaviour and related youth sub-cultures, John Williams is Senior Researcher at the Sir Norman Chester Centre for Football Research at Leicester University, UK
Summary
This work examines the game of football, asking what makes it so popular, and examining the diversity of its players, supporters and institutions throughout the world. It also investigates how the game reinforces or overcomes social differences, and looks at subcultures like football hooliganism.
