Full Description
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.
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
