This volume looks at why minorities choose to participate in, or stay away from, soccer, thereby linking the issue to the status of the minorities in the political, social, cultural or economic life of a nation.
This volume looks at why minorities choose to participate in, or stay away from, soccer, thereby linking the issue to the status of the minorities in ...
This book examines how football, as a mass spectator sport, came to represent a novel, unique cultural identity of Bengali people in terms of nation, community, region/locality and club, contributing to the continuity of everyday socio-cultural life. It explains how football became a viable popular social force with a rare emotional spontaneity and peculiar self-expressive fan culture against the background of anti-imperial nationalist movement and postcolonial political tension and social transformation. In the process, it investigates certain key questions and problems in the social...
This book examines how football, as a mass spectator sport, came to represent a novel, unique cultural identity of Bengali people in terms of natio...
