Fringe Nations in World Soccer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fringe Nations in World Soccer write by Kausik Bandyopadhyay. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Fringe Nations in World Soccer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Soccer is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, gaining huge media coverage and reaching all levels of society in countries all around the world. More than just entertainment, soccer has proved to be a reflection of national, cultural, community and ethnic identity as well as an indication of the development and international status of post-colonial nation states. For those nations still at the fringes of the modern global game, soccer represents a vision of potential commercialisation, capable of generating foreign reserves and bringing in considerable economic power. This book explores aspects of the development of soccer in countries which have recently been marginalised in world soccer or have only erratic success on the international stage. These fringe nations include a greater part of Africa, the USA, Australia, Israel, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, Indonesia, Thailand, Maldives and Sri Lanka, and while these countries are rarely noticed by the global football media, they nonetheless have great potential to excel, and many have a rich soccer heritage that still holds a place of central importance in the every day life of the people. This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.
Legacies of Great Men in World Soccer
Legacies of Great Men in World Soccer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legacies of Great Men in World Soccer write by Kausik Bandyopadhyay. This book was released on 2017-10-02. Legacies of Great Men in World Soccer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Soccer, the world’s most popular mass spectator sport, gives birth to great achievers on the field of play all the time. While some of them become heroes and stars during their playing career, transforming themselves into national as well as global icons, very few come to be remembered as all-time greats. They leave an enduring legacy and thereby claim to be legends by their own rights. While the rise and achievements of these soccer greats have drawn considerable attention from scholars across the world, their legacies across time and space have mostly been overlooked. This volume intends to reconstruct the significance of the legacies of such great men of world soccer particularly in a globalized world. It will attempt to show that these luminous personalities not only represent their national identity at the global stage, but also highlight the proven role of the players or coaches in projecting a global image, cutting across affiliations of nation, region, class, community, religion, gender and so on. In other words, the true heroes, icons and legends of the world’s most popular sport have always floated at a transnational global space, transcending the limits of space, identity or culture of a nation. This book was published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.
Why Minorities Play or Don't Play Soccer
Why Minorities Play or Don't Play Soccer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Minorities Play or Don't Play Soccer write by Kausik Bandyopadhyay. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Why Minorities Play or Don't Play Soccer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Soccer, the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, has always remained a marker of identities of various sorts. Behind the façade of its obvious entertainment aspect, it has proved to be a perpetuating reflector of nationalism, ethnicity, community or communal identity, and cultural specificity. Naturally therefore, the game is a complex representative of minorities’ status especially in countries where minorities play a crucial role in political, social, cultural or economic life. The question is also important since in many nations success in sports like soccer has been used as an instrument for assimilation or to promote an alternative brand of nationalism. Thus, Jewish teams in pre-Second World War Europe were set up to promote the idea of a muscular Jewish identity. Similarly, in apartheid South Africa, soccer became the game of the black majority since it was excluded from the two principal games of the country – rugby and cricket. In India, on the other hand, the Muslim minorities under colonial rule appropriated soccer to assert their community-identity. The book examines why in certain countries, minorities chose to take up the sport while in others they backed away from participating in the game or, alternatively, set up their own leagues and practised self-exclusion. The book examines European countries like the Netherlands, England and France, the USA, Africa, Australia and the larger countries of Asia – particularly India. This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.
Shifting Sands: Essays On Sports And Politics In The Middle East And North Africa
Shifting Sands: Essays On Sports And Politics In The Middle East And North Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shifting Sands: Essays On Sports And Politics In The Middle East And North Africa write by James Michael Dorsey. This book was released on 2017-11-24. Shifting Sands: Essays On Sports And Politics In The Middle East And North Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Middle East and North Africa are experiencing the most fundamental transition in their post-colonial history. It is a transition that is changing the borders of nation states as well as their political and social structures. Conflicting visions of what those structures should look like have ensured that transition will take years, and these deep-seated differences have ensured that the transition process is volatile, brutal and bloody. The balance of power shifts like quicksand.Shifting Sands: Essays on Sports and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa is a compilation of essays that constitute a first stab at exploring the importance of sports in general and soccer in particular in the political, social and cultural development of the Middle East and North Africa since the beginning of the 20th century. In doing so, the book provides a new, fresh and unique perspective that contributes to understanding the turbulence sweeping the region that is fundamentally changing its geopolitics and political and social structures.
Sociology of Sport
Sociology of Sport - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sociology of Sport write by Kevin Young. This book was released on 2016-11-21. Sociology of Sport available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Sociology of Sport has grown since its inception in the late 1950s and has become robust, and diverse. Many countries now boast strong scholars in the field and this volume reflects the fascinating research being done. This innovative volume is dedicated to a review of the state of the area by region.
