Ethnography of Football and Masculinities in Jamaica
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class and masculinity in Jamaican football
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Football Field
Football Talk
gender relations in sport
Hard Tackles
Held
international football
Jamaica
Jamaican masculinity studies
Men In Black
Montego Bay
Passing Game
Prestigious High School
qualitative fieldwork methods
Schoolboy Football
socioeconomic inequalities
socioeconomic inequality
Soft Fouls
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Product details
- ISBN 9781350056541
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Aug 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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What can football among young men in Jamaica tell us about class, wealth, age, and concepts of masculinity? William Tantam presents an ethnographic study of the impact of football on men's lives in contemporary Jamaica. He illuminates how the football field relates to social and economic inequalities, and whether playing football in a mixed group has the effect of levelling the playing field between the more and less economically wealthy.Tantam presents insights into the life histories and football biographies of individuals, the relationship between wealth, education, and class, and explores how socioeconomic inequalities are embodied and enacted. With rich ethnographic detail, he analyses how the experience of watching international football matches and the English Premier League locates groups of spectators in relation to wider movements of capital. The book features case studies of individuals who play football in Jamaica, and penetrates an under-examined area in academic discussion of sport and masculinity. This will be a valuable addition to students of anthropology, sociology, football studies, cultural studies and gender studies.
William Tantam is Postdoctoral Fellow in Caribbean Studies at the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London, UK.
