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Fear and Loathing in World Football (Hardcover)
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Fear and Loathing in World Football (Hardcover)
Series: Global Sport Cultures
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The quickest entry-point into most local cultures anywhere on earth
is to be found in talking football. Historically, football is one
of the great cultural institutions, and, like education and the
mass media, has played a key role in shaping and cementing senses
of national identity throughout the world. However, the nature of
intra-nation hostility, which may be based in football or which may
use the game as an arena for antagonisms, has yet to be analyzed.
Football today is more global than ever before. Teams, clubs and
regions increasingly establish cultural identities through
rivalries and opposition. Such rivalries invariably have deep
historical antecedents enforced by prejudice, myth or religious
conflicts, economic inequalities, or, perhaps most profound, class
and ethnic divisions.
Issues of disorder and violence are routine by-products of the game
the world over, and aggression, or the threat of it, characterizes
many matches both minor and major. In short, football at all levels
can become a site for symbolizing and expressing a variety of
tensions. This timely volume fills a gap in the current literature
on sport as the most extensive and incisive collection yet
published on issues relating to football around the world. It
uncovers and investigates the conflicts apparent in football
rivalry by gathering together a series of in-depth case studies
that span the football world.
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