Overview
- Explores responses within football fandom in England to recent developments that have significantly transformed the game
- Positions the culture of football fandom within the complex political and social class dynamics of contemporary society
- Provides a history of the development of football in England, with a prime focus on transformations associated with globalisation and commodification
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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‘They Call It the People’s Game’
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‘The Likes of Us’
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‘The Enemy Within’
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents a fresh perspective on football fandom in England, going beyond existing debates surrounding the structural transformations English football has seen in recent decades, to consider the contested cultural ground upon which football fandom exists.
Supporter Ownership in English Football connects cultural conflict experienced across society associated with negotiating structural changes such as globalisation, commodification and social exclusion, with supporter ownership in football – which is in itself an expression and reflection of broader social and political shifts in class-consciousness. Discourses of identity, authenticity, loyalty, ownership and above all, the possibilities and limitations for ordinary people to influence change, play a decisive role in how fans come to decide whether they could, or should, have a meaningful say in the future of their club and the game itself. While celebrating the achievements, progress and potential ofthe supporter ownership movement, the book is also careful to take account of the various setbacks, contradictions and limiting tendencies that continue to shape its developmental trajectory.
Porter’s relation of football supporter ownership to the political and social class dynamics of contemporary society will be of interest to scholars of sport studies, sociology, cultural studies and politics, and those interested in social movements, consumerism, identity, authenticity and community.
Reviews
“Porter offers a well-informed, innovative account of counter-veiling ownership models that football supporters, motivated by different political cultures, have developed in critical response to the dominant yet fragile hegemony of neoliberal ideas and practices currently transforming English football. Highly recommended reading.” (Peter Kennedy, Perth College UHI, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Chris Porter is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Supporter Ownership in English Football
Book Subtitle: Class, Culture and Politics
Authors: Chris Porter
Series Title: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05438-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05437-3Published: 25 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05438-0Published: 07 February 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 313
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology of Culture