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Games Without Frontiers - Football, Identity and Modernity (Hardcover)
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Games Without Frontiers - Football, Identity and Modernity (Hardcover)
Series: Popular Cultural Studies
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Total price: R5,320
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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.
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