Electronic Resource

Football Fans and Social Spacing

---

Penilaian

---

This book is about the relationship between leisure and power. More specifically, it theorizes a group of supporters’ attempts to control social space within and around English football stadiums. Not only is football a popular leisure form, it is also one which has undergone a remarkable process of transformation during the last 30 years. Advance surveillance techniques, all seater-stadia, rising ticket prices, and a growing intolerance to expressive modes of fandom have all transformed the experience of watching the professional game.

Through these five chapters, Ian Woolsey asks how the collective responses of travelling football supporters to these major societal currents and changes within the game; liquid modernity and the post-1989 transformation of English football, are managed via the distinct and oft-competing processes of social spacing in football. An important inspiration for the book is the work of Zygmunt Bauman, particularly his ideas on cognitive, aesthetic, and moral ‘spacings’ as a social production. Ian Woolsey’s powerful and persuasive application of these ideas not only extends Bauman’s focus on the ‘politics’ of power in public space to include a consideration of leisure but in so doing shows that ethnography, selectively conducted and theoretically informed, can provide data for a rich, sociological account of a football world.

The book will be of interest to researchers and scholars of sociology of leisure, sociology of sport, criminology, and cultural studies.

---

Availability

Inventory Code	Barcode	Call Number	Location	Status
2108000570	EB0006220	004.08 Woo f	Central Library (OPAC)	Available

Detail Information

Series Title

-

Call Number

004.08 Woo f

Publisher

Springer : Palgrave Macmillan Cham., 2021

Collation

xv, 170p.:ill

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-030-74532-5

Classification

004.08

Content Type

Ebook

Media Type

-

Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

1

Subject(s)

Sociology--Culture

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

BRF

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment