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Book Description: Taylor and Francis(Routledge), 2008. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 9.213 by 6.142 inches. (224 pages) This item is printed on demand. Please allow up to 10 days extra for printing & delivery. What can the history of a nation's footba revea about that nation's wider poitica and socio-cutura identity? How can the study of oca footba cuture hep us to understand the powerfu internationa forces at pay within the modern game? Based on ong-term and detaied ethnographic research, this book uses Mata as a critica case study to expore the dynamics of contemporary footba. Situated on the fringes of the EU, and with an appaing record in internationa competition, the Matese are nevertheess fanatica about the game. This book examines Matese footba in the context of the isand's unique poitics, cuture and nationa identity, shedding ight upon both Matese society and on broader processes, both oca and goba, within the internationa game. The book expores a range of key issues in contemporary footba, such as: the dynamics of internationa payer migration footba corruption and ethics the poitics of sponsorship and TV deas the goba appea of footbaing brands such as Manchester United, Juventus and Bayern Munich. This book is essentia reading for students and researchers working in Sports Studies, Socioogy of Sport, Footba, Gobaisation, Poitics and Ethnic Studies. Introduction Europeanization and Footba 1. Team Seection: Producing the Nation 2. New Tactics: Producing Difference 3. Footba and Poitics: Traditions and Modernities 4. Paying to the Big Men: Patronage and Party 5. Professions of Faith: Footbaing Modernities 6. The Bigger They Come: The Price of Footba 7. A the President?s Men: Foow the Money 8. Getting Into Europe: Goba Fows of Taent 9. Foreign Fan Cubs: The Goba in the Loca Epiogue a we-written, extensive, rich and history-wise ethnography -- Stephen van Woputte, Kathoieke Universiteit Leuven an aternative guide book to Mata, not east for its exceent historica section on the country's overa deveopment. -- Torbjorn Anderson, Department of Sport Sciences, Mamo University. Their nationa teams' records are abysma in internationa competition, but the citizens of Mata are nevertheess amongst the most devoted fans of footba (soccer). Armstrong (socioogy, Brune U.) and Mitche (socia anthropoogy, U. of Sussex) examine this phenomenon and how it reates to the dynamics of contemporary footba and the powerfu forces behind the game. They examine Matese footba and its pace within the nation's particuar poitics, cuture and identity, as we as the pace of Mata within European sport and its corruption and ethics, its commercia poitics, and its expanation of what it is to be a nationa and European citizen. They expain team seection, the process of producing difference between teams (nations), the patronage and party systems, the eements of faith and ritua, the economics of the sport, migration of payers, foreign fan cubs, and the ethics of it a. -- Book News Inc., August 2008 Gary Armstrong is Senior Lecturer in Socioogy at Brune University, London. Jon P. Mitche is a Reader in Socia Anthropoogy at the University of Sussex, Brighton. (Hardback). Bookseller Inventory # AG0415350174

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Book Description: Taylor & Francis Group. Book Condition: New. pp. 224. Bookseller Inventory # 7519213

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Book Description: Routledge, 2008. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 224 pages. 9.45x6.38x0.67 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # __0415350174

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