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The European football championship : mega-event and vanity fair / edited by Basak Alpan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, Alexandra Schwell University of Vienna, Austria, Albrecht Sonntag ESSCA School of Management, France.

Title
The European football championship : mega-event and vanity fair / edited by Basak Alpan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, Alexandra Schwell University of Vienna, Austria, Albrecht Sonntag ESSCA School of Management, France.
Publication
Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2015.

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Additional Authors
  • Alpan, Basak
  • Schwell, Alexandra
  • Sonntag, Albrecht
Description
xii, 180 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
The UEFA European football championship was the first European mega-event to take place in post-socialist Europe. Taking this as a departure point, this volume focuses on football as a realm of constructing and negotiating identities using rich ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth media analysis.
Series Statement
Football research in an enlarged Europe
Uniform Title
Football research in an enlarged Europe.
Subject
  • Champions League (Soccer tournament)
  • Soccer > Social aspects > Europe
  • Soccer > Social aspects
  • Europe
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : Negotiating Europeanness : The Euro2012 Championship and Spectator Narratives in an Enlarged European Perspective / Basak Alpan and Alexandra Schwell -- Offside, Or not quite : EURO 2012 as a Focal Point of Identity and Alterity / Alexandra Schwell -- Loyalty Jungle : Flexible Football Fan Identities in the Framework of Euro2012 / Nina Szogs -- Does Qualifying Really Qualify? : Comparing the Representations of Euro 2008 and Euro2012 in the Turkish Media / Basak Alpan and Ozgehan Senyuva -- Up to the expectations? : Perceptions of Ethnic Diversity in the French and German National Team / Albrecht Sonntag -- Mediating Turkishness through Language in Transnational Football / Yagmur Nuhrat -- Doing Ethnography and Writing Anthropology : A Single-site-multiple-ethnography of a Protest Event against the 2012 UEFA European Championship in Pozna / Michal Buchowski and Malgorzata Zofia Kowalska -- Afterword / Albrecht Sonntag.
ISBN
  • 9781137455055
  • 1137455055
LCCN
^^2015013983
OCLC
  • 909321032
  • SCSB-11314567
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