Football, Power, and Politics in Europe
The German Case in Comparative Perspective
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About this book
Football, Power, and Politics in Europe deals with the politics and policy-making in the field of football in a comparative perspective. Translated into English for the first time, this book systematizes political actors and their footprints not only in the field of sports, but in the political system as a wholeâan approach unique in the broader literature on the societal dimension of sports. It offers an empirical analysis of power exercise with sociological means (field approach of Bourdieu) and helps us to understand the enormous relevance of football/soccer in European societies, shedding light on how (elected and non-elected) power holders use norms inherent to the field of football. While the analysis extends to various European countries and to the international arena, Germany and German football are in the centre of interest. Combining insights from political science, sociology, anthropology, and of course, sports studies, this book ultimately seeks to ask: How is political power exerted and controlled in a field where state institutions only have a limited leverage?
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. Introduction: Football as a Symbolic Space of Possibility
- 2. Subjects in the Field of Football: Preference Formation in the Pre-Political Space
- 3. Politics Beyond Political Institutions: Football as an Organizational Field
- 4. Football Politics and Commerce: Testing the Public Welfare Orientation of Football
- 5. Community Building in the Context of Hyperliberalization: An Inherent Contradiction?
- 6. Internationalization of Football: In Fatal Proximity to Autocratic Practices
- 7. Conclusion: Football as Selective Homeland
- Back Matter