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Book Description: Taylor Francis Ltd, United Kingdom, 2009. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 234 x 156 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery ***** Print on Demand *****. What can the history of a nation's football reveal about that nation's wider political and socio-cultural identity? How can the study of local football culture help us to understand the powerful international forces at play within the modern game? Based on long-term and detailed ethnographic research, this book uses Malta as a critical case study to explore the dynamics of contemporary football. Situated on the fringes of the EU, and with an appalling record in international competition, the Maltese are nevertheless fanatical about the game. This book examines Maltese football in the context of the island's unique politics, culture and national identity, shedding light upon both Maltese society and on broader processes, both local and global, within the international game. The book explores a range of key issues in contemporary football, such as: the dynamics of international player migration football corruption and ethics the politics of sponsorship and TV deals the global appeal of footballing "brands" such as Manchester United, Juventus and Bayern Munich.This book is essential reading for students and researchers working in Sports Studies, Sociology of Sport, Football, Globalisation, Politics and Ethnic Studies. Bookseller Inventory # AAV9780415564915

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Book Description: Taylor & Francis Ltd. Paperback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW PRINT ON DEMAND., Global and Local Football: Politics and Europeanization on the Fringes of the EU, Gary Armstrong, Jon P. Mitchell, What can the history of a nation's football reveal about that nation's wider political and socio-cultural identity? How can the study of local football culture help us to understand the powerful international forces at play within the modern game? Based on long-term and detailed ethnographic research, this book uses Malta as a critical case study to explore the dynamics of contemporary football. Situated on the fringes of the EU, and with an appalling record in international competition, the Maltese are nevertheless fanatical about the game. This book examines Maltese football in the context of the island's unique politics, culture and national identity, shedding light upon both Maltese society and on broader processes, both local and global, within the international game. The book explores a range of key issues in contemporary football, such as: the dynamics of international player migration football corruption and ethics the politics of sponsorship and TV deals the global appeal of footballing "brands" such as Manchester United, Juventus and Bayern Munich. This book is essential reading for students and researchers working in Sports Studies, Sociology of Sport, Football, Globalisation, Politics and Ethnic Studies. Bookseller Inventory # B9780415564915

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Book Description: Taylor and Francis(Routledge), 2009. Paperback. 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 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. (Paperback). Bookseller Inventory # AG0415564913

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Book Description: ROUTLEDGE CHAPMAN HALL 01/05/2012, 2012. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New print on demand book. Shipped from US. This item is printed on demand. Bookseller Inventory # IP-9780415564915

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Book Description: Taylor & Francis, 2009. Paperback. Book Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 212 pages. 9.25x6.26x0.47 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # __0415564913

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Book Description: Routledge, 2012. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 6.14 by 9 inches. (00228 pages) This item is printed on demand. Please allow up to 10 days extra for printing & delivery. {Publisher's Publication Date = 2009-08-01 00:00:00} [ships from USA takes 8-14 days to Europe] Lang=English accessory:NO ACCESSORY (Paperback ). Bookseller Inventory # AF0415564913

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Book Description: Paperback. Book Condition: New. 234mm x 12mm x 156mm. Print on Demand 228 pages. 0.327. Bookseller Inventory # 9780415564915

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