"Africa's World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism,
Spectatorship, and Space" focuses on a remarkable month in the
modern history of Africa and in the global history of football.
Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann are well-known experts on South
African football, and they have assembled an impressive team of
local and international journalists, academics, and football
experts to reflect on the 2010 World Cup and its broader
significance, its meanings, complexities, and contradictions.
The World Cup's sounds, sights, and aesthetics are explored,
along with questions of patriotism, nationalism, and spectatorship
in Africa and around the world. Experts on urban design and
communities write on how the presence of the World Cup worked to
refashion urban spaces and negotiate the local struggles in the
hosting cities. The volume is richly illustrated by authors'
photographs, and the essays in this volume feature chronicles of
match day experiences; travelogues; ethnographies of fan cultures;
analyses of print, broadcast, and electronic media coverage of the
tournament; reflections on the World Cup's private and public
spaces; football exhibits in South African museums; and critiques
of the World Cup's processes of inclusion and exclusion, as well as
its political and economic legacies.
The volume concludes with a forum on the World Cup, including
Thabo Dladla, Director of Soccer at the University of
KwaZulu-Natal, Mohlomi Kekeletso Maubane, a well-known Soweto-based
writer and a soccer researcher, and Rodney Reiners, former
professional footballer and current chief soccer writer for the
"Cape Argus" newspaper in Cape Town. This collection will appeal to
students, scholars, journalists, and fans.
Cover illustration: South African fan blowing his vuvuzela at
South Africa vs. France, Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein, June 22,
2010. Photo by Chris Bolsmann.
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