tailieunhanh - Fear and Loathing in World Football

The history of football is the story of rivalry and opposition. Indeed, the binary nature of football, involving rival teams and opposing identities, precedes the modern game of ‘association football’ (or ‘soccer’) and its codification in 1865. During the Middle Ages, the various European forms of ‘football’ were often violent affairs involving rival social groups (Magoun, 1938). Often, these games would be part of a folk carnival and so would dramatize opposing social identities, such as those between married and single men, masters versus apprentices, students against other youths, village against village, or young women against older women. Football games were brought into the English public schools during the. | Fear and Loathing in World Football Gary Armstrong Richard Giulianotti BERG Fear and Loathing in World Football Global Sport Cultures Eds. Gary Armstrong Brunel University Richard Giulianotti University of Aberdeen and David Andrews The University of Memphis From the Olympics and the World Cup to eXtreme sports and kabbadi the social significance of sport at both global and local levels has become increasingly clear in recent years. The contested nature of identity is widely addressed in the social sciences but sport as a particularly revealing site of such contestation in both industrializing and post-industrial nations has been less fruitfully explored. Further sport and sporting corporations are increasingly powerful players in the world economy. Sport is now central to the social and technological development of mass media notably in telecommunications and digital television. It is also a crucial medium through which specific populations and political elites communicate and interact with each other on a global stage. Berg Publishers are pleased to announce a new book series that will examine and evaluate the role of sport in the contemporary world. Truly global in scope the series seeks to adopt a grounded constructively critical stance towards prior work within sport studies and to answer such questions as How are sports experienced and practiced at the everyday level within local settings How do specific cultures construct and negotiate forms of social stratification such as gender class ethnicity within sporting contexts What is the impact of mediation and corporate globalization upon local sports cultures Determinedly interdisciplinary the series will nevertheless privilege anthropological historical and sociological approaches but will consider submissions from cultural studies economics geography human kinetics international relations law philosophy and political science. The series is particularly committed to research that draws upon primary source .