New Ethnographies of Football in Europe (eBook)

Football has emerged as an important symbolic field through which various social, cultural, political, economic, and historical dimensions and antagonisms are negotiated. This volume covers a variety of themes illuminating the multiple ways that football impacts on people's everyday lives. Using anthropological research methods and data collected from ethnographic fieldwork, the contributors scrutinize not only the social fields of football fans and the specific socio-cultural contexts in which they are embedded, but also other actors beyond the pitch, and the possibilities for both agency and subversion. Taking into account processes of Europeanization, globalization, commercialization and migration, the collection offers fresh insights into fan identity formations and practices and highlights the importance of anthropology's self-reflexive and actor-centred perspective.

Alexandra Schwell is an Assistant Professor at the Department of European Ethnology, University of Vienna, Austria. She is part of the FREE project consortium and is sub-project leader for 'Doing World Heritage', funded within the Sparkling Science Programme of the Austrian Ministry of Science, Research, and Economy.
Nina Szogs is a researcher at University of Vienna, Austria and Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany and is part of the interdisciplinary European project FREE: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe (FP7). Her research focuses on intersectionality, gender and migration. f the Football Research in an Enlarged Europe project, she conducted ethnographic research on the legacy of Euro 2012 and her research interests include hegemonic business discourses and strategies, and the anthropology of political economies.
Michal Buchowski is a Professor and Chair of Social Anthropology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland and at European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/O, Germany. His interests focus on the anthropology of postsocialism, migration, multiculturalism, and football and his publications include Polish Ethnology (2012) and a co-edited volume entitled Colloquia Anthropologica (2014).

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Football has emerged as an important symbolic field through which various social, cultural, political, economic, and historical dimensions and antagonisms are negotiated. This volume covers a variety of themes illuminating the multiple ways that football impacts on people's everyday lives. Using anthropological research methods and data collected from ethnographic fieldwork, the contributors scrutinize not only the social fields of football fans and the specific socio-cultural contexts in which they are embedded, but also other actors beyond the pitch, and the possibilities for both agency and subversion. Taking into account processes of Europeanization, globalization, commercialization and migration, the collection offers fresh insights into fan identity formations and practices and highlights the importance of anthropology's self-reflexive and actor-centred perspective.