Fan Culture in European Football and the Influence of Left Wing Ideology (Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives) by Peter Kennedy

Fan Culture in European Football and the Influence of Left Wing Ideology (Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives)

Peter Kennedy
180 pages
Routledge
Oct 2013
Hardcover
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This book explores the tradition of left wing political thinking in the culture of fans of professional football in Europe. It sets out to chronicle and celebrate the fraternal, communal and radical tradition of football - seen to best effect in demands for democratic fan ownership and control of clubs, in fan campaigns against racist and fascist mobilisation of football supporters, and in a firm commitment to anti-corporatism. Drawing on the rich and varied traditions of fan cultures across Europe, the book examines how football, as a cultural form, carries with it the possibility of promoting the voices of the disenfranchised and the marginalised, and so the basis for nurturing solidarity against oppression, alienation and exploitation current in modern capitalist society.This book was published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.
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Pages 180
Publisher Routledge
Published 2013
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