English National Identity and Football Fan Culture
| Author | : Dr Tom Gibbons |
| Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2014-04-28 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781472423283 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1472423283 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (283 Downloads) |
Download or read book English National Identity and Football Fan Culture written by Dr Tom Gibbons and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining football fans’ expressions of Englishness in public houses and online spaces, the author discusses the effects of globalisation, 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 globalisation 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, globalisation and contemporary national identities.
