Research Catalog

Title

Global perspectives on football in Africa : visualising the game / edited by Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher and Ciraj Rassool.

Publication

London : Routledge, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Baller, Susann,
• Baller, Susann.
• Miescher, Giorgio,
• Miescher, Giorgio.
• Rassool, Ciraj,
• Rassool, Ciraj.

Description

xii, 194 p. : ill., ports.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Sport in the global society. Contemporary perspectives

Uniform Title

Sport in the global society. Contemporary perspectives.

Alternative Title

Global perspectives on football in Africa, visualizing the game

Subject

• Soccer > Economic aspects > Africa
• Soccer > Social aspects > Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Visualizing the game: global perspectives on football in Africa / Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher & Ciraj Rassool -- 2. Representation in the first African World Cup: {u2018}world-class{u2019}, Pan-Africanism, and exclusion / Chris Bolsmann 3. Visualising modernity: development hopes and the 2010 FIFAWorld Cup / Kate Manzo -- 4. {u2018}Fields of Play{u2019}: the District Six Museum and the history of football in Cape Town / Ciraj Rassool & Virgil Slade 5. The African footballer as visual object and figure of success: Didier Drogba and social meaning / Daniel Künzler & Raffaele Poli -- 6. Football imagery and colonial legacy: Zaire{u2019}s disastrous campaign during the 1974 World Cup / Paul Dietschy -- 7. Envisioning and visualizing English football in East Africa: the case of a Kenyan radio football commentator / Solomon Waliaula -- 8. Visualizing politics in African sport: political and cultural constructions in Zimbabwean soccer / Praise Zenenga -- 9. Black chicken, white chicken: patriotism, morality and the aesthetics of fandom in the 2008 African Cup of Nations in Ghana / Mattia Fumanti -- 10. Visualizing African football in apartheid Namibia: photography, posters and constructions of consumers and nationalism / Giorgio Miescher & Dag Henrichsen -- 11. Visualizing the game: the iconography of football on African postage stamps / Agbenyega Adedze -- 12. Football and the representation of history: the Senegalese 2002 {u2018}success story{u2019} in football cartoons and advertisements / Susann Baller

ISBN

• 9780415572293 (hbk.)
• 0415572290 (hbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library