The UEFA European football championship was the first European mega-event to take place in post-socialist Europe. Taking this as a departure point, this volume focuses on football as a realm of constructing and negotiating identities using rich ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth media analysis.
The UEFA European football championship was the first European mega-event to take place in post-socialist Europe. Taking this as a departure point, th...
Exploring how football impacts on people's everyday lives, this volume uses anthropological research methods to scrutinize the social fields of football fans and the specific socio-cultural contexts in which they are embedded, taking into account processes of Europeanization, globalization, commercialization and migration.
Exploring how football impacts on people's everyday lives, this volume uses anthropological research methods to scrutinize the social fields of foo...