Overview
- Provides the first handbook exclusively covering the relationship between football and politics
- Offers a global comparison, covering 35 countries across 5 continents
- Covers topical themes relating to football and its main political and social issues
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Western Europe
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- Football and politics
- Political Impacts of Football
- Sociological Impacts of Football
- European Politics and Politics
- American Soccer and Politics
- African Football and Politics
- Asian Football and Politics
- Origins of Football
- Historical Club Rivalry
- Political Aspects of Football
- Football and Economics
- Political use of football
- sport and politics
- sociology of sport
- football spectators
- football fans and violence
- football fans and racism
- football and corruption
- football and social integration
- football and class
About this book
This Handbook offers an analysis of the relation between football and politics, based on over 30 case studies covering five continents. It provides a detailed picture of this relation in a wide number of European, American, African, and Asian states, as well as a comparative assessment of football in a global perspective, thus combining the general and the local. It examines themes such as the political origins of football in the studied country, the historical club rivalries, the political aspects of football as a sports spectacle, and the contemporary issues linked to the political use of football. By following the same structure with each study, the volume allows for the comparison between largely investigated cases and cases that have seldom been addressed. The Handbook will be of use particularly to students and scholars in the fields of sport studies, political science and sociology, as well as cultural studies, anthropology and leisure studies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jean-Michel De Waele is Professor of Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. His areas of expertise include Central and Eastern European politics, social-democracy, as well as the relations between sport and politics.
Suzan Gibril is F.R.S-F.N.R.S Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Her fields of expertise include contentious politics in the Middle East and the relations between sport and politics in the region.
Ekaterina Gloriozova is F.R.S-F.N.R.S Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Her research interests are the relations between sport and politics in post-Soviet and contemporary Russia.
Ramón Spaaij is Associate Professor and Research Program Leader (Sport in Society) at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. His overarching research interests centre on questions of social cohesion, conflict and social change in sport and violent extremism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave International Handbook of Football and Politics
Editors: Jean-Michel De Waele, Suzan Gibril, Ekaterina Gloriozova, Ramón Spaaij
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78777-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78776-3Published: 31 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07646-7Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78777-0Published: 21 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 710
Topics: Comparative Politics, Political Sociology, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Political History, Global/International Culture