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Football and Community in the Global Context - Studies in Theory and Practice (Hardcover, New)
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Football and Community in the Global Context - Studies in Theory and Practice (Hardcover, New)
Series: Sport in the Global Society
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Football clubs across the world continue to embody many of the
collective symbols, identifications and processes of connectivity
which have long been associated with the notion of 'community'. In
recent years, however, the very term 'community' has become the
focus of renewed interest within popular discourse and amongst
academics, politicians and policy makers. It has become something
of a 'buzz' word, wheeled out as both a lament to more certain
times and as an appeal to a better future: a term imbued with all
the richness associated with human interaction. 'Community' has
also been employed increasingly within football, for instrumental
reasons concerned with policy and stadium redevelopment, and in
broader rhetoric about clubs, their localities and fans. This book
brings together a range of key debates around contemporary
understandings of 'community' in world football. Split into four
sections, it considers political and theoretical debates around
football and its connection with community; different national and
ethnic football communities; instrumental uses of football to
bridge gaps within and between groups; future directions in the
football and community debate. This book was published as a special
issue of Soccer & Society.
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