Critical Research in Football
About the Book Series
The Critical Research in Football book series was launched in 2017 to showcase the inter- and multi-disciplinary breadth of debate relating to 'football'. The series defines 'football' as broader than association football, with research on rugby, Gaelic and gridiron codes also featured. Including monographs, edited collections, short books and textbooks, books in the series are written and/or edited by leading experts in the field whilst consciously also affording space to emerging voices in the area, and are designed to appeal to students, postgraduate students and scholars who are interested in the range of disciplines in which critical research in football connects. The series is published in association with the Football Collective, www.footballcollective.org.uk.
Critical Issues in Football: A Sociological Analysis of the Beautiful Game
1st Edition
Edited
By Will Roberts, Stuart Whigham, Alex Culvin, Daniel Parnell
August 26, 2024
Showcasing some of the most important current research in football studies, this book demonstrates the value of social theory and sociology in helping us to better understand the world’s favourite sport. This book sheds critical new light on key issues in contemporary football, with each chapter ...
The UEFA European Football Championships: Politics, Media Spectacle and Social Change
1st Edition
By Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen, Renan Petersen-Wagner
August 26, 2024
This book explores social and political issues and trends emerging around the UEFA European Football Championships. It presents a contemporary sociology of the European Championships which, despite its significance as a mega-event, has been largely overshadowed by the Olympics and the FIFA World ...
Football and Risk: Trends and Perspectives
1st Edition
By Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen
January 29, 2024
This is the first book to look closely at the concept of ‘risk’ in elite and professional football from a social scientific perspective. Drawing on the wider sociological, criminological and management literature on risk, it shows how football helps us to understand global risk more generally in ...
Integrated Marketing Communications in Football
1st Edition
By Argyro Elisavet Manoli
January 29, 2024
This book takes an important step forward in showing how Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) have been applied within the English Premier League (EPL) – arguably the most commercialised and watched sport league in the world – and how it can and should be utilised in the context of other ...
Sport Mega-Events, Security and COVID-19: Securing the Football World
1st Edition
By Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen
January 29, 2024
This book examines contemporary issues of security at sports mega-events (SMEs). It focuses on the 2020 UEFA European Football Championship (Euro 2020) - subsequently postponed to 2021 - the third biggest SME in the global sporting calendar and a unique multi-city, multi-country event that ...
Football and Discrimination: Antisemitism and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Pavel Brunssen, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
January 09, 2023
This book takes a close look at discrimination in football in order to illuminate our understanding of the interaction between sport and wider society, politics and culture, particularly in terms of the (re)production of identity. It presents insightful and diverse international case ...
Football and Popular Culture: Singing Out from the Stands
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen R. Millar, Martin J. Power, Paul Widdop, Daniel Parnell, James Carr
January 09, 2023
Football is ubiquitous and a permanent fixture of modern life. More than a sport, it frequently manifests in broader popular culture. This book examines the significance of football for, and in, popular culture across a wide range of forms, including music, film, and social media. Football and ...
Football, Family, Gender and Identity: The Football Self
1st Edition
By Hanya Pielichaty
January 09, 2023
This book presents a cross-disciplinary examination of the lived experiences of girls and women football players using theoretical insights from sports studies, psychology, sociology and gender studies. It examines the concept of ‘the football self’ – your own, personal football identity that ...
Football, Politics and Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By James Carr, Daniel Parnell, Paul Widdop, Martin J. Power, Stephen R. Millar
January 09, 2023
This book presents a series of fascinating case studies that show how the lives and bodies of clubs, players and fans around the world are enmeshed with politics. It draws on original research in countries including England, Scotland, Ireland, Poland, Mexico, Algeria and Argentina and ...
Russia and the 2018 FIFA World Cup
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Arnold
January 09, 2023
Despite many negative expectations of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Russia delivered one of the best World Cups in living memory. This book brings together leading scholars working in Russian studies, sociology and political science to analyse the 2018 World Cup and assess its significance for sport, ...
Diego Maradona: A Socio-Cultural Study
1st Edition
Edited
By Pablo Brescia, Mariano Paz
December 01, 2022
This is the first book in English to closely examine the life of Diego Maradona from socio-cultural perspectives, exploring how his status as an icon, a popular sporting hero, and a political figurehead has been culturally constructed, reproduced, and manipulated. The volume looks at ...
Politics, Ideology and Football Fandom: The Transformation of Modern Poland
1st Edition
By Radosław Kossakowski, Przemysław Nosal, Wojciech Woźniak
December 13, 2021
Football fans and football culture represent a unique prism through which to view contemporary society and politics. Based on in-depth empirical research into football in Poland, this book examines how fans develop political identities and how those identities can influence the wider political ...