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Fanatics! : power, identity, and fandom in football

Author: Adam Brown
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
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Combining new approaches to the study of fandom with critical assessments of the commercialization of the game, Fanatics offers a comprehensive & timely examination of the state of European football as the game prepares for the next millennium.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Adam Brown
ISBN: 0415181038 9780415181037 0415181046 9780415181044
OCLC Number: 38550837
Description: xix, 289 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Adam Brown --
Pt. I. Power in football: the 'people's game'? --
1. FIFA versus UEFA in the struggle for the control of world football / John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson and Paul Darby --
2. Grey shirts to grey suits: the political economy of English football in the 1990s / Simon Lee --
3. United we stand: some problems with fan democracy / Adam Brown --
Pt. II. Racism in football: identity and exclusion --
4. Racism in football: patterns of continuity and change / Les Back, Tim Crabbe and John Solomos --
5. The ultras, racism and football culture in Italy / Carlo Podaliri and Carlo Balestri --
6. 'Football's coming home' but whose home? And do we want it?: nation, football and the politics of exclusion / Ben Carrington --
7. Scottish racism, Scottish identities: the case of Partick Thistle / Paul Dimeo and Gerry P. T. Finn --
Pt. III. Football North to South: continental identities --
8. Football fans in Scandinavia: 1900-97 / Torbjorn Andersson and Aage Radmann --
9. 'On the border': some notes on football and national identity in Portugal / Joao Nuno Coelho --
10. National obsessions and identities in football match reports / Liz Crolley, David Hand and Ralf Jeutter --
Pt. IV. Football in Britain --
the 'national' sport? --
11. Scottish fans, not English hooligans!: Scots, Scottishness and Scottish football / Gerry P. T. Finn and Richard Giulianotti --
12. 'We shall not be moved'! Mere sport, mere songs?: a tale of Scottish football / Joseph M. Bradley --
13. 'Angels' with drunken faces?: travelling Republic of Ireland supporters and the construction of Irish migrant identity in England / Marcus Free --
Pt. V. Football boundaries: regulation and the place of fans --
14. When the writ hits the fan: panic law and football fandom / Steve Greenfield and Guy Osborn --
15. The law and hate speech: 'Ooh Aah Cantona' and the demonisation of 'the other' / Simon Gardiner --
16. Virtual fandoms: futurescapes of football / John Bale.
Responsibility: edited by Adam Brown.
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Combining new approaches to the study of fandom with critical assessments of the commercialization of the game, Fanatics offers a comprehensive & timely examination of the state of European football as the game prepares for the next millennium.

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