English National Identity and Football Fan Culture
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cross
cup
england
England National Team
English Fans
English Football Fans
English National Identity
English National Team
English Top Flight Football
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fan behaviour analysis
fandom
fans
figurational sociology
Football Association
Football Fan Culture
Football Fandom
Football Fans
george's
Juventus FC
Lincoln City
manchester
Manchester United Fan
Manchester United FC
National Habitus
national identity construction
National Team
Norbert Elias theory
Post-devolution UK
PSV Eindhoven
Smiley Face Emoticon
sociological study of football supporters
sport ethnography
St George's Cross
St George’s Cross
team
Team GB
UK devolution impact
united
West Ham United FC
world
World Cup Qualifier
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781472423283
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Apr 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In recent years, scholars have understood the increasing use of the St George’s Cross by football fans to be evidence of a rise in a specifically ’English’ identity. This has emerged as part of a wider ’national’ response to broader political processes such as devolution and European integration which have fragmented identities within the UK. Using the controversial figurational sociological approach advocated by the twentieth-century theorist Norbert Elias, this book challenges such a view, drawing on ethnographic research amongst fans to explore the precise nature of the relationship between contemporary English national identity and football fan culture. Examining football fans’ expressions of Englishness in public houses and online spaces, the author discusses the effects of globalization, European integration and UK devolution on English society, revealing that the use of the St George’s Cross does not signal the emergence of a specifically ’English’ national consciousness, but in fact masks a more complex, multi-layered process of national identity construction. A detailed and grounded study of identity, nationalism and globalization amongst football fans, English National Identity and Football Fan Culture will appeal to scholars and students of politics, sociology and anthropology with interests in ethnography, the sociology of sport, fan cultures, globalization and contemporary national identities.
Dr Tom Gibbons is Senior Lecturer in Sports Studies in the School of Social Sciences and Law at Teesside University, UK.
