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English National Identity and Football Fan Culture - Who Are Ya? (Paperback)
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In recent years, scholars have understood the increasing use of the
St George's Cross by football fans to be evidence of a rise in a
specifically 'English' identity. This has emerged as part of a
wider 'national' response to broader political processes such as
devolution and European integration which have fragmented
identities within the UK. Using the controversial figurational
sociological approach advocated by the twentieth-century theorist
Norbert Elias, this book challenges such a view, drawing on
ethnographic research amongst fans to explore the precise nature of
the relationship between contemporary English national identity and
football fan culture. Examining football fans' expressions of
Englishness in public houses and online spaces, the author
discusses the effects of globalization, European integration and UK
devolution on English society, revealing that the use of the St
George's Cross does not signal the emergence of a specifically
'English' national consciousness, but in fact masks a more complex,
multi-layered process of national identity construction. A detailed
and grounded study of identity, nationalism and globalization
amongst football fans, English National Identity and Football Fan
Culture will appeal to scholars and students of politics, sociology
and anthropology with interests in ethnography, the sociology of
sport, fan cultures, globalization and contemporary national
identities.
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