Edited by Jean-Michel De Waele, Suzan Gibril, Ekaterina Gloriozova, and Ramón Spaaij
This Handbook offers an analysis of the relation between football and politics, based on over 30 case studies covering five continents. It provides a detailed picture of this relation in a wide number of European, American, African, and Asian states, as well as a comparative assessment of football in a global perspective, thus combining the general and the local.
It examines themes such as the political origins of football in the studied country, the historical club rivalries, the political aspects of football as a sports spectacle, and the contemporary issues linked to the political use of football. By following the same structure with each study, the volume allows for the comparison between largely investigated cases and cases that have seldom been addressed. The Handbook will be of use particularly to students and scholars in the fields of sport studies, political science and sociology, as well as cultural studies, anthropology and leisure studies.
Palgrave Macmillan | May 31, 2018
ISBN 3030076466
Contents
Introduction
Football and Politics: Between the Local and the Global by Ramón Spaaij, Jean-Michel De Waele, Suzan Gibril, Ekaterina Gloriozova
Western Europe
- Belgium by Jean-Michel De Waele and Grégory Sterck
- France by David Ranc and Nicolas Hourcade
- Germany by Albrecht Sonntag
- Greece and Cyprus by Christos Kassimeris
- Italy by Fabien Archambault
- Spain by Carles Viñas
- Sweden by Aage Radmann and Torbjörn Andersson
- Switzerland by Thomas Busset and Christian Koller
- United Kingdom by Matthew Taylor
Eastern Europe
- Croatia by Loïc Tregoures
- Poland by Wojciech Woźniak
- Romania by Florin Faje
- Russia by Ekaterina Gloriozova
- Serbia by Richard Mills
- Ukraine by Olga Ruzhelnyk
Africa and Middle East
- Algeria by Mahfoud Amara and Youcef Bouandel
- Egypt by Suzan Gibril
- Israel by Yair Galily and Tal Samuel-Azran
- Ivory Coast by Daniel Künzler
- Nigeria by Chuka Onwumechili, Totty O. Totty, and Leelannee Malin
- South Africa by Gustav Venter
- Zimbabwe by Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
Americas
- Argentina by Pablo Alabarces, José Garriga Zucal, Verónica Moreira, Gabriela Garton, and María Nemesia Hijós
- Brazil by Rosana Da Câmara Teixeira and Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda
- Mexico by Sergio Varela
- United States by Charles Parrish and Jamee Pelcher
- Uruguay by Lincoln Bizzozero Revelez
Asia and Oceania
- Australia by Roy Hay and Ian Syson
- India by Kausik Bandyopadhyay
- Indonesia by Andy Fuller
- Japan by John Horne and Wolfram Manzenreiter
- Turkey by Dağhan Irak and Jean-François Polo
Editors
Jean-Michel De Waele
Jean-Michel De Waele is Professor of Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. His areas of expertise include Central and Eastern European politics, social-democracy, as well as the relations between sport and politics.
Suzan Gibril
Suzan Gibril is F.R.S-F.N.R.S Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Her fields of expertise include contentious politics in the Middle East and the relations between sport and politics in the region.
Ekaterina Gloriozova
Ekaterina Gloriozova is F.R.S-F.N.R.S Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Her research interests are the relations between sport and politics in post-Soviet and contemporary Russia.
The Palgrave International Handbook of Football and Politics
Ramón Spaaij 