From Frontiers To Football

Author : Matthew Brown
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780233536

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This summer the eyes of the world will be on the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, and this will be repeated in 2016 for the Olympic Games inRio de Janeiro. Screens will likely be filled with cultural stereotypes about Latin Americans and airwaves packed with specious interpretations of Latin America’s position in the world. This book provides the historical analysis to rebut such misinterpretations and offers the reader tools with which tounder stand Latin America’s complex present.'From frontiers to football' tells the history of Latin America’s engagement with global empires from 1800 to today. It is a storyof repeated cycles of lessons learned and unlearned, continued dependency, victimhood and thwarted dreams. It is also anarrative of overthrown imperial designs,colonial armies defeated and new hope sexpressed – inspiration for other colonized peoples across the globe. This book redresses the absence of cultural history, giving as much attention to Shakira and Pelé as tocoffee producers, copper miners, government policies and covert imperialism. It avoids the polemical invectives of political interpretations,presenting a clear, readable and absorbing introduction to the history of Latin America’s interactions with the world over the last two centuries.Latin America is at the forefront of innovation and a global centre in many social, cultural and economic activities.No longer either a frontier or a periphery, 'From frontiers to football'presents a compelling and accessible portrait of a continent today.

Author : Matthew Brown
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780233956

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With Brazil hosting the FIFA World Cup this summer and the Olympic Games in 2016, all eyes are on Latin America. But what vision of these countries will we be given? Will our airwaves be full of cultural stereotypes about Latin Americans and inaccurate interpretations of the region’s position in the world? In From Frontiers to Football, Matthew Brown provides a much-needed historical analysis to rebut misconceptions about Latin America’s past while giving readers the tools with which to understand the region’s complex present. Telling the story of Latin America’s engagement with global empires from 1800 to today, From Frontiers to Football is as much a narrative of repeated cycles, continued dependency, and thwarted dreams as it is a tale of imperial designs overthrown, colonial armies defeated, and other successes that have inspired colonized peoples across the globe. Brown restores a cultural history to the continent, giving as much attention to pop singer Shakira and retired footballer Pelé as he does to coffee producers, copper miners, government policies, and covert imperialism. Latin America, Brown shows, is no longer a frontier or periphery, but rather is at the forefront of innovation and a global center for social, cultural, and economic activities. Clear and readable, From Frontiers to Football presents a compelling introduction to the history of Latin America’s interactions with the world over the last two centuries.

Author : John Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781351934992

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Games Without Frontiers by John Williams Pdf

What is the historical appeal of football? How diverse are its players, supporters and institutions throughout the world? What are its various traditions and how are these affected by pressures to modernize?? In what ways does the game help to reinforce or overcome social differences and prejudices? How can we understand football’s subcultures, especially football hooligan ones? The 1994 World Cup Finals in the United States have again demonstrated the conflicts which exist around football over its international future. The multi-media age beckons new audiences for top-level matches, but worries remain that the historical and cultural appeal of football itself may be the real loser. The global game? has a breadth of skills, playing techniques, supporting styles and ruling bodies. These are all subject to local and national traditions of team play and fan display. Modern commercial influences and international cultural links through players and fan styles, are accommodated within the game to an increasing extent. Yet, football’s ability to differentiate remains: at local, regional, national and even continental levels. In some cases the game’s traditions ensure that these differences are becoming as oppositional today as is modern football hooliganism. But, the overall picture is one of a game without frontiers - rich in historical and cultural detail, pluralistic in its traditions and identities. This volume brings together essays by leading academics and researchers writing on world football. Their studies draw on interdisciplinary researches in England, Scotland, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Argentina and Australia. The book will be of interest to students of sports science, cultural studies and social science and to all those who simply enjoy football as the world's greatest sporting passion.

Author : John Hughson,Kevin Moore,Ramón Spaaij,Joseph Maguire
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135074821

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Routledge Handbook of Football Studies by John Hughson,Kevin Moore,Ramón Spaaij,Joseph Maguire Pdf

Football is unquestionably the world’s most popular and influential sport. There is no corner of the globe in which the game is not played or followed. More countries are affiliated to FIFA, football’s governing body, than to the United Nations. The sport has therefore become an important component of our social, cultural, political and economic life. The Routledge Handbook of Football Studies is a landmark work of reference, going further than any other book in considering the historical and contemporary significance of football around the world. Written by a team of leading sport scholars, the book covers a broad range of disciplines from history, sociology, politics and business, to philosophy, law and media studies. The central section of the book examines key themes and issues in football studies, such as the World Cup and international competition, governance and ownership, fandom and celebrity. The concluding section offers in-depth surveys of the culture and organisation of football in each of the regional confederations, from UEFA to CONCACAF. This book will be fascinating reading for any serious football fan and an essential resource for advanced students or scholars undertaking research in football or sport studies, and any practitioner or policy-maker working in football.

Author : Mark Orton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031205897

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Football and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Argentina by Mark Orton Pdf

This book examines how since its arrival in 1867 with British immigrants, football has become the key cultural signifier of national identity in Argentina over the long twentieth century. With the international exploits of players such as Luis Monti, Alfredo Di Stéfano and Diego Maradona, the sport has projected Argentina onto the global consciousness not seen in any other way. In this book, Mark Orton challenges existing myths surrounding the nativisation of football in Argentina away from British influence, as he shows how the game provided a conduit for the assimilation of millions of European immigrants in the early decades of the century into a new Argentine ‘race’. The book also examines how football gave some of the ‘voiceless others’ such as women, Afro-Argentines, indigenous people and those in the interior an arena to project themselves in an Argentine society that was masculine, white and Buenos Aires-dominated.

Author : John Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138468339

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- About the authors -- Introduction Stillborn in the USA? -- Tradition and modernity in European football -- 1. Exporting football: notes on the development of football in Europe -- 2. Austrification as modernization: changes in Viennese football culture -- 3. "We are Celtic supporters ... ": questions of football and identity in modern Scotland -- 4. From Saint-Etienne to Marseilles: tradition and modernity in French soccer and society -- 5. The drive to modernization and the supermarket imperative: who needs a new football stadium? -- Identities: local, ethnic, national -- 6. ''Rangers is a black club": 'race', identity and local football in England -- 7. Football and identity in the Ruhr: the case of Schalke 04 -- 8. 'Wogball:' ethnicity and violence in Australian soccer -- 9. Masculinity and football: the formation of national identity in Argentina -- 10. The stars and the flags: individuality, collective identities and the national dimension in Italia '90 and Wimbledon '91 & '92 -- Subcultures of opposition -- 11. New supporter cultures and identity in France: the case of Paris Saint-Germain -- 12. False Leeds: the construction of hooligan confrontations -- 13. 'Keep it in the Family': an outline of Hibs' football hooligans' social ontology -- 14. The birth of the 'ultras': the rise of football hooliganism in Italy

Author : Joe Kennedy
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781910924259

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Games Without Frontiers by Joe Kennedy Pdf

Is soccer inherently political? What does soccer actually mean today? Games Without Frontiers seeks force us to think about what we mean when we say 'soccer'. Along the way, it skewers media cliches about footballers and fans, considers the sport's implications for radical politics and aesthetics, and situates the 'working-man's game' in relation to twenty-first century discussions of political authenticity. Written half as a travelogue, this book seeks to protect football from some of its would-be saviors without ever losing sight of what it means to have a fan's investment in the game.

Author : Richard Brentnall
Publisher : Sigma Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Soccer
ISBN : 1850587396

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Games Beyond Frontiers by Richard Brentnall Pdf

Author : Chris Bolsmann,George Kioussis
Publisher : Sports & Popular Culture
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1621906124

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Soccer Frontiers by Chris Bolsmann,George Kioussis Pdf

"This collection explores soccer's development in the United States as waves of immigrants arrived and America's cities began to industrialize and become major cultural hubs in the late-nineteenth century. While America is largely known today as one of the few countries in which soccer is not its primary sport, this collection aims to shed light on the US's little-known soccer history by focusing on immigration and immigrant stories playing out in major American cities"--

Author : John Goddard,Peter Sloane
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Games
ISBN : 9781781003176

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Handbook on the Economics of Professional Football by John Goddard,Peter Sloane Pdf

In this comprehensive Handbook, John Goddard and Peter Sloane present a collection of analytical contributions by internationally regarded scholars in the field, which extensively examine the many economic challenges facing the world's most popular

Author : Gerry Finn,Richard Giulianotti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781136330353

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Football Culture by Gerry Finn,Richard Giulianotti Pdf

These essays provide a critical investigation of football cultures, examining local and national impacts of the game's new millennial order over five continents.

Author : Nina Clara Tiesler,Joao Nuno Coelho
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317968818

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Globalised Football by Nina Clara Tiesler,Joao Nuno Coelho Pdf

When studying the social phenomena in and around football, five major aspects of globalisation processes become evident: international migration, the global flow of capital, the syncretistic nature of tradition and modernity in contemporary culture, new experiences of time and space and the revolution in information technologies. In an exploration of these themes the collection provides insight into academic studies of football in Portugal, Germany, England, Spain, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, China, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the USA. At examining football-related phenomena under the headings of nations and migration, myths and business, the city and the dream, it shows how modernised football itself is object and subject in processes of both neo-liberal globalisation and counter hegemonic globalisation. While the contributions highlight characteristics of particular local and national contexts, the volume focuses on global centre-periphery-relations and migration trajectories of football professionals by analysing recent developments in post-colonial Portuguese speaking areas: The high ranking of "Portuguese football" not only serves in national(ist) discourses or in order to emancipate the country from a marginal position, it also turns Portugal into a football-talent exporter, confronting it partly with the same ambiguous consequences as Brazil and the African countries, who "lose" their football talents to the European centre. The receiving countries, again, include Portugal. This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer in Society

Author : Adrian Stores
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Marketing consultants
ISBN : 0954445708

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B&B by Adrian Stores Pdf

Author : Sean Hamil,Jonathan Michie,Christine Oughton,Steven Warby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135275457

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The Changing Face of the Football Business by Sean Hamil,Jonathan Michie,Christine Oughton,Steven Warby Pdf

This examination of changes taking place in the world of football focuses on its growing commercialization. It covers such topics as fans becoming shareholders, with a say in the running of the clubs, and the setting-up of a government-sponsored scheme to support shareholder trusts.

Author : Ellis Cashmore,Kevin Dixon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317568971

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Studying Football by Ellis Cashmore,Kevin Dixon Pdf

Football is the most widely played, watched and studied sport in the world. It’s hard to develop a full understanding of the significance of sport in global society without understanding the significance of football. Studying Football is the first book designed specifically to guide and support the study of football on degree-level courses, across the full range of social-scientific perspectives. Written by a team of leading international football experts, and considering themes of globalization, corporatization and prejudice and discrimination throughout, it introduces key topics in football studies, including: media and celebrity identity, fandom and consumption gender violence racism corruption Every chapter includes up-to-date case study material, a ‘Research in Action’ section and features to aid student understanding and bring theory to life. Studying Football introduces all the key themes and facets of the social-scientific study of football, and is therefore an essential text for students on football studies courses and useful reading for any undergraduates studying the sociology of sport more generally.