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The European Football Championship : Mega-Event and Vanity Fair
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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 con...
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.
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- Creator
- edited by Albrecht Sonntag, Alexandra Schwell, Basak Alpan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed. 2015
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (XII, 180 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781137455062, 1137455063, 1137455055, 134957533X
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- English
- Introduction : Negotiating Europeanness : The Euro2012 Championship and Spectator Narratives in an Enlarged European Perspective / Basak Alpan and Alexandra Schwell -- Offside, Or not quite : EURO 2012 as a Focal Point of Identity and Alterity / Alexandra Schwell -- Loyalty Jungle : Flexible Football Fan Identities in the Framework of Euro2012 / Nina Szogs -- Does Qualifying Really Qualify? : Comparing the Representations of Euro 2008 and Euro2012 in the Turkish Media / Basak Alpan and Ozgehan Senyuva -- Up to the expectations? : Perceptions of Ethnic Diversity in the French and German National Team / Albrecht Sonntag -- Mediating Turkishness through Language in Transnational Football / Yagmur Nuhrat -- Doing Ethnography and Writing Anthropology : A Single-site-multiple-ethnography of a Protest Event against the 2012 UEFA European Championship in Pozna / Michal Buchowski and Malgorzata Zofia Kowalska -- Afterword / Albrecht Sonntag