The Containment of Soccer in Australia: Fencing Off the World Game

ISBN-13: 9781138880580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 168 str.

Christopher Hallinan; John Hughson

Opis

This book investigates some of the ways that soccer has been maintained as marginal to Australian identity, and why the sport remains vitally important to some marginalised groups within these communities.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.

Spis treści

1. The Beautiful Game in Howard’s ‘Brutopia’: Football, Ethnicity and Citizenship in Australia  Chris Hallinan and John Hughson  2. Getting a Ticket to the World Party: Televising Soccer in Australia  David Rowe and Callum Gilmour  3. Soccer and the Politics of Identity for Young Muslim Refugee Women in South Australia  Catherine Palmer  4. Football Barriers – Aboriginal Under-Representation and Disconnection From the ‘World Game’  John Maynard  5. ‘Holding Their Own’: Australian football, British Culture and Globalization  Stephen Wagg and Tim Crabbe  6. Sheilas, Wogs and Metrosexuals: Masculinity, Ethnicity and Australian Soccer  Jessica Carniel  7. Soccer in the West: the World Game in Australia’s Western Periphery  Philip Moore  8. You Have the Right to Remain Violent: Power and Resistance in the Club  Bily Bosevski and Chris Hallinan  9. Fan Perspectives of Change in the A-League  Daniel Lock  10. ‘Fencing Them In’: the A-League, Policing and the Dilemma of Public Order  Ian Warren and Roy Hay

O autorze

Christopher Hallinan is Associate Professor with the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His research interests are within the politics of ethnic, racial and national identities, youth studies, and ethnographic research methods.

John Hughson is a Professor of Sport and Cultural Studies with the University of Central Lancashire. He was educated in Australia. His research interests are broadly within the social and historical study of culture with an emphasis on sport, particularly the connections between sport and other areas of culture including the arts.