Overview
- Demonstrates how the consumption of ‘forbidden football’ in 1980's Romania illustrated the power of football and its potential for social mobilisation
- Provides an alternative social history of communist everyday life in 1980's Romania
- Presents the mass consumption of forbidden televised football as a form of silent resistance within Romania under a totalitarian regime
Part of the book series: Global Culture and Sport Series (GCS)
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About this book
This book presents an ethnographic description and sociological interpretation of the ‘football gatherings’ that evolved out of central Romania in the late twentieth century. In the 1980's, Romanian public television did not broadcast football mega-events for economic and political reasons. In response, masses of people would leave their homes and travel into the mountains to pick-up the TV broadcast from neighbouring countries. The phenomenon grew into a social institution with a penetrating force: it produced an alternative social space and a dissident public that pointed to a form of resistance taking place through football.
Forbidden Football in Ceausescu’s Romania provides an insight into the everyday life under the pressure of dictatorship and, through the special patterns of sports consumption, it tells a social history through small individual stories related to football.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Forbidden Football in Ceausescu’s Romania
Authors: László Péter
Series Title: Global Culture and Sport Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70709-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70708-2Published: 20 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88981-8Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70709-9Published: 08 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-3404
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3412
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 162
Number of Illustrations: 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Ethnicity Studies, Political Sociology, European Culture