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As the most popular mass spectator sport across the world, soccer
generates key moments of significance on and off the field,
encapsulated in events that create metaphors and memories, with
wider social, cultural, psychological, political, commercial and
aesthetic implications. Since its inception as a modern game, the
history of soccer has been replete with events that have changed
the organization, meanings and impact of the sport. The passage
from the club to the nation or from the local to the global often
opens up transnational spaces that provide a context for studying
the events that have ‘defined’ the sport and its followers.
Such defining events can include sporting performances, decisions
taken by various stakeholders of the game, accidents and violence
among players and fans, and invention of supporter cultures, among
other things. The present volume attempts to document, identify and
analyse some of the defining events in the history of soccer from
interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. It revisits the
discourses of signification and memorialization of such events that
have influenced society, culture, politics, religion, and commerce.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the
journal Soccer & Society.
Soccer, the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, has
long been a site which articulates the complexities and diversities
of the everyday life of the nation. The imaging and prioritization
of the game as a 'national' or an 'international' event in public
opinion and the media also play a critical role in transforming the
soccer culture of a nation. In this context, the FIFA World Cup
remains the grand spectacle for asserting the identity of the
nation. This book intends to offer eclectic perspectives and
discourses on the FIFA World Cup, and to throw light on the
changing dimensions of football and sports culture in terms of
identity, race, ethnicity, gender, fandom, governance, and so on.
On the one hand, it focuses on the significance of the FIFA World
Cup for nations in terms of hosting, performance, playing style,
and identity formation. On the other, it looks beyond the World Cup
to highlight the growing importance of a host of perspectives in
sport in general and football in particular with reference to art,
fandom, gender, media, and governance. The chapters in this book
were originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
The eight chapters in this book explore more than 150 years of the
development of several modern sports - baseball, basketball,
cricket, football, handball, ice hockey and lacrosse - across the
two Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe, some analysing a century
of events since the mid-nineteenth century and some only a few
years in the very present. Drawing on the methods of history,
international relations, political science, and sociology, the
contributing authors examine various theories of sporting
globalization. The chapters take a balanced look at the concepts of
the nation state and the connected world, which are the substantive
core around which modern human society is ordered. They construct
stories of entanglements and convergences, from within and without
the nation state, in which the national and the non-national are
not mutually exclusive. The key features of this collection are how
cultural elements are introduced to sport, how changes are
perceived, how sporting practices and institutions can be defined
at geopolitical and other levels, how we might conceptualize the
perimeter of judging the national-transnational or the
local-translocal paradigms, and how we could complicate the
understanding of sport/knowledge transfer by ascribing different
degrees of importance to origin, process, purpose, outcome,
personnel and network. This book is a multidisciplinary exploration
into the development of modern sporting culture from global and
transnational history perspectives. The chapters originally
published as a special issue in Sport in Society.
Sport governance no longer stirs public opinion only when scandals
surface; it has become a persistent concern for a number of
stakeholders, such as the media, sport followers, and corporates
that produce and sponsor sport. Contemporary sport governance is
characterised by tension between sport's potential for commercial
benefit on the one hand and moral education and social development
on the other. The perceived incompatibility of these two aspects
has led to intense conversations in the media, administrative
circles, and the public sphere about the need for ethics to be the
key element of governance. The chapters in this volume explore the
contemporary forms of governance that is structured by sport's
extensive transnational networks, shifts in what the stakeholders
mentioned above understand by 'ethics', and the emergence of new
stakeholders. They identify as the two major directions of
contemporary sport governance the growing significance of the
non-West, especially in relation to event hosting, and the need for
controlling the behaviour of emergent interest groups. The latter
is a complex constellation of athletes, officials, supporters,
lawyers, and politicians who share power and collectively determine
corporate and non-profit governance, legal aspects, and regulatory
mechanisms from within their subjective locations. The chapters in
this book were originally published in a special issue in Sport in
Society.
As the most popular mass spectator sport across the world, soccer
generates key moments of significance on and off the field,
encapsulated in events that create metaphors and memories, with
wider social, cultural, psychological, political, commercial and
aesthetic implications. Since its inception as a modern game, the
history of soccer has been replete with events that have changed
the organization, meanings and impact of the sport. The passage
from the club to the nation or from the local to the global often
opens up transnational spaces that provide a context for studying
the events that have 'defined' the sport and its followers. Such
defining events can include sporting performances, decisions taken
by various stakeholders of the game, accidents and violence among
players and fans, and invention of supporter cultures, among other
things. The present volume attempts to document, identify and
analyse some of the defining events in the history of soccer from
interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. It revisits the
discourses of signification and memorialization of such events that
have influenced society, culture, politics, religion, and commerce.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the
journal Soccer & Society.
Sport governance no longer stirs public opinion only when scandals
surface; it has become a persistent concern for a number of
stakeholders, such as the media, sport followers, and corporates
that produce and sponsor sport. Contemporary sport governance is
characterised by tension between sport's potential for commercial
benefit on the one hand and moral education and social development
on the other. The perceived incompatibility of these two aspects
has led to intense conversations in the media, administrative
circles, and the public sphere about the need for ethics to be the
key element of governance. The chapters in this volume explore the
contemporary forms of governance that is structured by sport's
extensive transnational networks, shifts in what the stakeholders
mentioned above understand by 'ethics', and the emergence of new
stakeholders. They identify as the two major directions of
contemporary sport governance the growing significance of the
non-West, especially in relation to event hosting, and the need for
controlling the behaviour of emergent interest groups. The latter
is a complex constellation of athletes, officials, supporters,
lawyers, and politicians who share power and collectively determine
corporate and non-profit governance, legal aspects, and regulatory
mechanisms from within their subjective locations. The chapters in
this book were originally published in a special issue in Sport in
Society.
Soccer, the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, has
long been a site which articulates the complexities and diversities
of the everyday life of the nation. The imaging and prioritization
of the game as a 'national' or an 'international' event in public
opinion and the media also play a critical role in transforming the
soccer culture of a nation. In this context, the FIFA World Cup
remains the grand spectacle for asserting the identity of the
nation. This book intends to offer eclectic perspectives and
discourses on the FIFA World Cup, and to throw light on the
changing dimensions of football and sports culture in terms of
identity, race, ethnicity, gender, fandom, governance, and so on.
On the one hand, it focuses on the significance of the FIFA World
Cup for nations in terms of hosting, performance, playing style,
and identity formation. On the other, it looks beyond the World Cup
to highlight the growing importance of a host of perspectives in
sport in general and football in particular with reference to art,
fandom, gender, media, and governance. The chapters in this book
were originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
The eight chapters in this book explore more than 150 years of the
development of several modern sports - baseball, basketball,
cricket, football, handball, ice hockey and lacrosse - across the
two Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe, some analysing a century
of events since the mid-nineteenth century and some only a few
years in the very present. Drawing on the methods of history,
international relations, political science, and sociology, the
contributing authors examine various theories of sporting
globalization. The chapters take a balanced look at the concepts of
the nation state and the connected world, which are the substantive
core around which modern human society is ordered. They construct
stories of entanglements and convergences, from within and without
the nation state, in which the national and the non-national are
not mutually exclusive. The key features of this collection are how
cultural elements are introduced to sport, how changes are
perceived, how sporting practices and institutions can be defined
at geopolitical and other levels, how we might conceptualize the
perimeter of judging the national-transnational or the
local-translocal paradigms, and how we could complicate the
understanding of sport/knowledge transfer by ascribing different
degrees of importance to origin, process, purpose, outcome,
personnel and network. This book is a multidisciplinary exploration
into the development of modern sporting culture from global and
transnational history perspectives. The chapters originally
published as a special issue in Sport in Society.
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