Football and Accelerated Culture: This Modern Sporting Life

by Steve Redhead

Book Overview

In this new theorisation of global football culture, Steve Redhead explores the relationship between sport and culture in a rapidly shifting world. Drawing on cutting-edge concepts, from accelerated culture and claustropolitanism to non-postmodernity, he reflects on the demise of working class football cultures and the rapid media globalisation of 'the people's game'. The book includes international empirical research, examining themes such as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138705071
• ISBN13: 9781138705074
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"