Beyond the Final Whistle - Vasilis Kostakis

Beyond the Final Whistle

Football for a Better World
Buch | Softcover
144 Seiten
2025
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-5073-8 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
Can football become a force for liberation or is it just another 'opium of the masses'? 
Beyond the Final Whistle explores a new philosophy of football, showing how sport could lead to social change instead of propping up a hyper-consumerist and collapsing society.



With a light touch, Vasilis Kostakis tackles the meaning of the beautiful game, exploring how it is produced and played, from the dribbles of a young Zapatista, to the many goals of Messi. Speaking to activists, philosophers, comedians and footballers themselves, he imagines what football would look like in a new, post-capitalist world.



How does football affect global inequality and the climate crisis? How does it teach our children empathy? What makes the game so captivating to billions of people, and how can this passion be used for liberation? With humour and insight, Beyond the Final Whistle is a love letter to football and revolution.

Vasilis Kostakis is a Professor of Technology Governance and Sustainability at TalTech's Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance in Estonia. He is also a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Vasilis is the founder of the P2P Lab and a founding member of both the Tzoumakers rural makerspace and the Commonen energy cooperative.

Introduction



Part I: What is football?

1. Football is art

2. The football gods are dead

3. We always dance together

4. We always sing together

5. It came home

6. So what is football anyway?



Part II: What world do we want?

7. We all kicked a ball once

8. The one who always kicked the can

9. The Hallowed Lost Penalty

10. Messi stretches to infinity

11. The tragedy of our times

12. When you're down 4-0 in the 89th minute, can you turn the tide?

13. The poor are poor because they make poor choices

14. The tunnel to the other side of earth

15. The Cruyff turn

16. So can the world change through football?



Part III: How to change the world through football

17. The turn of the century

18. Drivers should drive and footballers should kick the ball

19. Democracy in football, democracy in society

20. Perhaps the greatest match of all time

21. Another world is here

22. The football of change

23. So how do we change the world through football?



Sources and further reading



How this book was written



Funding acknowledgement

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.4.2025
Zusatzinfo 4 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Sport Ballsport Fußball
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
Weitere Fachgebiete Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-7453-5073-9 / 0745350739
ISBN-13 978-0-7453-5073-8 / 9780745350738
Zustand Neuware
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