Beichelt Football, Power, and Politics in Europe

The German Case in Comparative Perspective
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-55166-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 173 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series

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 whole-an 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?

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beichelt, Timm

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction: Football as a symbolic space of possibilities.- Chapter 2. Subjects in the field of football: Preference formation in the pre-political space.- Chapter 3. Politics beyond political institutions: Football as an organizational field.- Chapter  4. On the dependence of politics and public on the commercial sphere: Public welfare orientation of football on trial.- Chapter  5. Community Formation in the Context of Hyperliberalization: An Inherent Contradiction?.- Chapter 6. International Football Politics: In Fatal Proximity to Autocratic Regimes and Practices.- Chapter 7. Football, Economy and Politics in Russia.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Football as Selective Homeland.- Chapter 9. Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Timm Beichelt is Professor of European Studies at European University Viadrina, Germany.