Stadium Worlds: Football, Space and the Built Environment

ISBN-13: 9780415549042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 306 str.

Frank, Sybille

Opis

Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. An international multi-disciplinary range of perspectives are set in four thematic sections bring together with particular focus on the stadium.

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