The European Football Championship: Mega-Event and Vanity Fair

by Albrecht Sonntag (Editor), Alexandra Schwell (Editor), Basak Alpan (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137455055
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Series:	Football Research in an Enlarged Europe
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Nina Szogs, University of Vienna, Austria Ozgehan Senyuva, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Yagmur Nuhrat, Kadir Has University, Turkey Michał Buchowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland Maßgorzata Zofia Kowalska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Negotiating Europeanness: The Euro2012 Championship And Spectator Narratives In An Enlarged European Perspective; Basak Alpan And Alexandra Schwell
2. 'Offside. Or Not Quite: EURO 2012 As A Focal Point Of Identity And Alterity'; Alexandra Schwell
3. 'Loyalty Jungle: Flexible Football Fan Identities In The Framework Of Euro2012'; Nina Szogs
4. 'Does Qualifying Really Qualify? Comparing The Representations Of Euro 2008 And Euro2012 In The Turkish Media'; Basak Alpan And Ozgehan Senyuva
5. 'Up To The Expectations? Perceptions Of Ethnic Diversity In The French And German National Team'; Albrecht Sonntag
6. 'Mediating Turkishness Through Language In Transnational Football; Yagmur Nuhrat
7. 'Doing Ethnography And Writing Anthropology: A Single-Site-Multiple-Ethnography Of A Protest Event Against The 2012 UEFA European Championship In Poznan'; Michal Buchowski And Malgorzata Zofia Kowalska
8. Afterword; Albrecht Sonntag