Format:
Online-Ressource (175 p)
ISBN:
9781138826519
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1. The commercialisation of football -- Introduction -- Football and the money game -- Enter corporate capital -- From the love of money to the political economy of debt -- Enter UEFA -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Marxist political economy of the football industry -- Introduction -- The traditional perspective -- The specificities of capitalist social relations in the football industry -- Football as fictitious commodity
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Elite football labour process -- The market situation of elite footballers -- The work situation of elite footballers -- Understanding the politics of supporter movements in the context of the peculiarities of the political economy of the football industry -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Supporters Direct Europe: the 'recolonisation' of football fandom -- Introduction -- Setting the context: Marxist state theory and the European social model -- The political and economic context for Supporters Direct Europe's formation -- Supporters Direct as a European project? -- Concluding remarks
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Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. Europe's stadium revolution -- Introduction -- UEFA competitions and European stadium growth -- UEFA and the rise of the corporate-media stadium complex -- Who profits? -- European stadia revolution and the changing culture of football fandom -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5. Europe's Ultra football supporters movement -- Introduction -- The complexities of 'Ultra' identity formations -- Dynamics of the particular and the general in the formation of Ultra identities -- Crisis in European reformism -- Against Modern Football
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Red Bull Salzburg affair -- Racism/fascism: the Ultra response -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6. Grassroots football, autonomous activity and the forging of new social relationships -- Introduction -- Not-for-profit football -- Freedom through football? -- Grassroots football in context -- Capitalism, football communities and the struggle over the commodification of everyday life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Concluding thoughts -- The analytical power of Marxism -- Core conflicts in football outlined by the book -- Final observation -- Index
Additional Edition:
9781317576266
Additional Edition:
Print version Kennedy, Peter Football in Neo-Liberal Times : A Marxist Perspective on the European Football Industry : Taylor and Francis,c2016
Language:
English
Keywords:
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