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Football has emerged as an important symbolic field through which
various social, cultural, political, economic, and historical
dimensions and antagonisms are negotiated. This volume covers a
variety of themes illuminating the multiple ways that football
impacts on people's everyday lives. Using anthropological research
methods and data collected from ethnographic fieldwork, the
contributors scrutinize not only the social fields of football fans
and the specific socio-cultural contexts in which they are
embedded, but also other actors beyond the pitch, and the
possibilities for both agency and subversion. Taking into account
processes of Europeanization, globalization, commercialization and
migration, the collection offers fresh insights into fan identity
formations and practices and highlights the importance of
anthropology's self-reflexive and actor-centred perspective.
The UEFA European football championship was the first European
mega-event to take place in post-socialist Europe. Taking this as a
departure point, this volume focuses on football as a realm of
constructing and negotiating identities using rich ethnographic
fieldwork and in-depth media analysis.
Football has emerged as an important symbolic field through which
various social, cultural, political, economic, and historical
dimensions and antagonisms are negotiated. This volume covers a
variety of themes illuminating the multiple ways that football
impacts on people's everyday lives. Using anthropological research
methods and data collected from ethnographic fieldwork, the
contributors scrutinize not only the social fields of football fans
and the specific socio-cultural contexts in which they are
embedded, but also other actors beyond the pitch, and the
possibilities for both agency and subversion. Taking into account
processes of Europeanization, globalization, commercialization and
migration, the collection offers fresh insights into fan identity
formations and practices and highlights the importance of
anthropology's self-reflexive and actor-centred perspective.
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