Football and National Identities in Spain

The Strange Death of Don Quixote

A. Quiroga (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

246 Seiten

2013
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-35540-8 (ISBN)

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This book investigates the use of football to create, shape and promote Spanish, Catalan and Basque national identities and explores the utilization of soccer to foster patriotic feelings, exposing the often dark vested interests behind the propagation of national narratives through soccer.

Alejandro Quiroga is Reader in Spanish History at Newcastle University, UK. He is the author of Making Spaniards: Primo de Rivera and the Nationalization of the Masses, 1923-1930 and The Reinvention of Spain: Nation and Identity since Democracy (with Sebastian Balfour).

1. Football, National Narratives and the Cumulative Media Effect 2. Invention and Development of the Fury and Failure Narrative (1920-1975) 3. Transition to Democracy (1975-1982) 4. In Search of Modernity's Ark (1982-2000) 5. From Patriotic Bulimia to Nationalist Obesity (2001-2012) 6. Football and Identities in Catalonia 7. Football and identities in the Basque Country 8. Conclusion: Don Quixote Scavenges for Food

Reihe/Serie	Global Culture and Sport Series
Zusatzinfo	X, 246 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-230-35540-4 / 0230355404
ISBN-13	978-0-230-35540-8 / 9780230355408
Zustand	Neuware