Football in Neo-Liberal Times

A Marxist Perspective on the European Football Industry

Peter Kennedy, David Kennedy (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

174 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-30863-3 (ISBN)

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This book offers an original Marxist critique of the European football business. It argues that the Marxist account of the difference between profits and surplus value is crucial to an understanding of the fluid and contradictory nature of the commodification of football. Section one analyses the nature of modern professional football and section two highlights attempts, via government agency and football clubs, to corral fans into ever greater identification with business logic aimed at breaking traditional social relations. Section three draws on a number of cases studies across Europe, to analyse how some fans are attempting to mount a counter ideological response to the assault of neo-liberalism on the game.

Peter Kennedy lectures in the Sociology of Sport and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University. His most recent published work is in applying sociological theories to understanding health and medicine, and football supporter responses to commercialisation David Kennedy is a freelance researcher. His most recent published work is in the area of football supporters and governance of professional football clubs

Introduction 1. The Commercialisation Of Football 2. Marxist Political Economy Of The Football Industry 3. Supporters Direct Europe: the "Recolonisation" of Football Fandom 4. Europe’s Stadium Revolution 5. Europe’s Ultra Football Supporters Movement 6. Grassroots Football, Autonomous Activity and the Forging of New Social Relationships 7. Concluding Thoughts

Erscheinungsdatum	31.08.2017
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Zusatzinfo	4 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	249 g
Themenwelt	Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-30863-3 / 1138308633
ISBN-13	978-1-138-30863-3 / 9781138308633
Zustand	Neuware