FIFA World Cup and Beyond

Sport, Culture, Media and Governance
Herausgeber: Bandyopadhyay, Kausik; Mitra, Shakya; Naha, Souvik

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Produktbeschreibung

The book offers diverse perspectives and discourses on the FIFA World Cup, and throws light on the changing dimensions of football and sports culture in terms of identity, race, ethnicity, gender, fandom and governance. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Sport in Society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9780815396338
• ISBN-10: 0815396333
• Artikelnr.: 53022343

Autorenporträt

Kausik Bandyopadhyay is Professor of History at West Bengal State University, India. He was a former Fellow of the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland. A Deputy Executive Editor of Soccer & Society (Routledge), his most recent works include Mahatma on the Pitch: Gandhi and Cricket in India (2017) and Sport, Culture and Nation: Perspectives from Indian Football and South Asian Cricket (2015). Souvik Naha has a PhD in History from the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. An Editor of Soccer & Society (Routledge), he has published his research in journals such as International Journal of the History of Sport, Sport in Society, Soccer & Society, Sport in History, and Economic and Political Weekly, as well as in various edited volumes. Shakya Mitra is a post graduate in Sports Management from Stirling University, Scotland. He has worked in the Sports Management Industry as well as in the media in India for close to eight years. He has contributed articles to international journals and co-edited special issues of Routledge journals on sport.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. FIFA World Cup and beyond: sport, culture, media and
governance Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Souvik Naha and Shakya Mitra FIFA World
Cup and the Nation 2. A second 'Maracanazo'? The 2014 FIFA World Cup in
historical perspective Kevin Moore 3. Reporting the 2014 World Cup:
football first and social issues last Helton Levy 4. Risk and (in)security
of FIFA football World Cups - outlook for Russia 2018 Donna Wong and Simon
Chadwick 5. The language of football: a cultural analysis of selected world
cup nations Niels N. Rossing and Lotte S. Skrubbeltrang 6. Conflicting
traditions: the FIFA World Cup, Australia and football identities Binoy
Kampmark 7. Amnesia and animosity: an assessment of soccer in the States
David Kilpatrick Sport, Culture, Media and Governance 8. The art of
goalkeeping: memorializing Lev Yashin Mike O'Mahony 9. Politics and
international fandom in a fringe nation: La Albiceleste, Maradona, and
Marxist Kolkata Sarbajit Mitra and Souvik Naha 10. Soccer and the city: the
game and its fans in Solo and Yogyakarta Andy Fuller 11. Women's time? Time
and temporality in women's football Kath Woodward 12. Making sense of
race/ethnicity and gender in televised football: reception research among
British students Rens Peeters and Jacco van Sterkenburg 13. FIFA, the video
game: a major vehicle for soccer's popularization in the United States
Andrei S. Markovits and Adam I. Green 14. Stakeholder governance and Irish
sport David Hassan and Ian O'Boyle