Collective Action and Football Fandom

Zusatztext

This book draws upon a relational sociological paradigm to understand the processes of collective action in football fan activism, lending it to social scientific fields including: applied social theory, social movement studies, the sociology of sport and sport studies. This work examines the collective action of contemporary fandom in English football using a range of club case studies to address the pertinent themes of anti-discrimination, 'home', ticketing, name changes, 'ownership' and broader leftist politics. Using the theoretical framework of relational sociology, the choice of the case study chapters highlight the different social and cultural changes English football has seen, often over a very short period of time. 

Autorenportrait

Jamie Cleland is Senior Lecturer in Sport and Management at the University of South Australia, Australia.  Mark Doidge is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Brighton, UK. Peter Millward is Reader in Sociology at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Paul Widdop is Senior Research Fellow at Leeds Beckett University, UK.

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