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African football, identity politics, and global media narratives : the legacy of the FIFA 2010 World Cup

Title: African football, identity politics, and global media narratives : the legacy of the FIFA 2010 World Cup / edited by Tendai Chari, U niversity of Venda, South Africa, Nhamo A. Mhiripiri, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe.
Publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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xiv, 313 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"This edited collection examines the ways in which football in Africa is intimately bound up with deeper social, cultural and political currents, using the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa as a lens for this analysis. Drawing from a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, the volume explores symbolic inscriptions and multiple narratives around the first World Cup on African soil and how these narratives inform an understanding of football and Africa. The authors are drawn from diverse disciplines across cultural studies, sports science, journalism, media studies and sociology, and they tackle four key themes: identity construction, African fan cultures, African media narratives and global media narratives. Empirical data is gleaned from a variety of sources such archival media texts, blogs, travelogues, diary material, ethnographic interviews and other online sources. This is the first book to consider African football as mediated discourse around which multiple narratives cohere"--

Series Statement

Global culture and sport series

Uniform Title

Global culture and sport.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

Sc D 14-1788

ISBN

9781137392220 (hardback)
1137392223 (hardback)

LCCN

2014019524

OCLC

873725496

Title

African football, identity politics, and global media narratives : the legacy of the FIFA 2010 World Cup / edited by Tendai Chari, U niversity of Venda, South Africa, Nhamo A. Mhiripiri, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Global culture and sport series

Global culture and sport.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chari, Tendai.

Mhiripiri, Nhamo A.

Research Call Number

Sc D 14-1788

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