Stadium Worlds : Football, Space and the Built Environment

ISBN-13: 9780415549035 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 328 str.

Sybille Frank; Silke Steets

Opis

Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. It is suitable for lecturers and researchers in sociology, cultural studies, geography, architecture, sport and environment.

Recenzje

"Through a wonderfully eclectic collection of essays, the stadium and its meanings, influences and resonances are the central subject of this carefully considered and well thought book." – Geografiska Annaler

Spis treści

Introduction: Football, Space and the Built Environment  Part 1: The Politics of Representation and Design  1. The New European Stadium  2. "Show Yourself to the People!": Ancient Stadia, Politics and Society  3. Challenging the Stadium: Watching Sport Events in Public  Part 2: Architecture and Media  4. The Stadium as a Cash Machine  5. The Mirror Stage in the Stadium: Media Spaces of Television and Architecture  6. Killing Sports Fields: The Amahora Stadium Complex in Kigali, Rwanda  Part 3: When Global Flows Meet Local Cultures  7. Global Players and the Stadium: Migration and Borders in Professional Football  8. Going to the Match: The Transformation of the Match-Day Routine at Manchester City FC  9. "Come Home": The Stadium, Locality and the Community at FC United of Manchester  Part 4: Gender and Space  10. Sport, Football and Masculine Identity: The Stadium as a Window onto Gender Construction  11. Producting Gender-Normative Spaces in U.S. Women's Professional Soccer  12. Football Under Cover in Tehran's Ararat Stadium  Part 5: Emotions and the Body  13. Emotions in Sports Stadia  14. Heroes, Myths and Magic Moments: Religious Elements on the Sacred Ground  15. ‘Beckhamania’: Promoting Post-modern Celebrities Beyond the Stadium  16. Conclusion: The Stadium – Lense and Refuge

O autorze

Sybille Frank and Silke Steets are sociologists working at the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany