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A 'crisis of community' has emerged in many areas and many have sought to blame a variety of other 'social issues' on the decline of community. Football clubs now embody many of the collective symbols, identifications and processes of connectivity which have long been associated with the notion of 'community'.
Sommario
1 Introduction: football and community - practical and theoretical considerations
Adam Brown,
Tim Crabbe and
Gavin MellorPolitics, theory and practice2 'The Janus-faced sport': English football, community and the legacy of the 'third way'
Gavin Mellor 3 Contemporary community theory and football
Tony Blackshaw 4 'Our club, our rules': fan communities at FC United of Manchester
Adam Brown Nations and ethnicities5 Football, komyuniti and the Japanese ideological soccer apparatus
John Horne and
Wolfram Manzenreiter 6 'The nation and its fragments': football and community in India
Kausik Bandyopadhyay 7 Coming in from the margins: ethnicity, community support and the rebranding of Australian soccer
James Skinner,
Dwight H. Zakus and
Allan EdwardsCommunity and the instrumental use of football8 Anyone for Football for Peace? The challenges of using sport in the service of co-existence in Israel
John Sugden 9 Vamos, Vamos Aceirteros: soccer and the Latino community in Richmond, California
Ilann S. MesseriPostmodern community and future directions10 Fishing for community: England fans at the 2006 FIFA World Cup
Tim Crabbe
Info autore
Dr Adam Brown, Professor Tim Crabbe and Dr Gavin Mellor are Directors and founder members of Substance, a UK-based social research company specialising in areas of sport, youth inclusion and community regeneration. www.substance.coop
Riassunto
A ‘crisis of community’ has emerged in many areas and many have sought to blame a variety of other ‘social issues’ on the decline of community. Football clubs now embody many of the collective symbols, identifications and processes of connectivity which have long been associated with the notion of ‘community’.
