This book tells the important story of the 30-year social movement
against all-seated stadia in football in England and Wales that
developed in the wake of the Hillsborough stadium disaster and the
wider European and international significance of that movement.
Examining the fan networks, relations, tactics, and interactions which
built the ‘Safe Standing’ movement, this book reveals an untold
social history of football supporter activism and represents an
important contribution to our understanding of football
supporter-based social movements, the sociology of football, and
social movement studies more broadly. This book argues that Safe
Standing is sociologically highly significant because the restriction
and partial exclusion of football fans as a social group in the
timescape of English football after Hillsborough marked a moment of
profound social change in the UK. Applying relational sociology, and
drawing on original research and insider access, this book considers
how events and ruptures, such as Hillsborough, shape the dynamics of a
social movement. In this case, supporters, who have been deeply
affected by the all-seating legislation, are now in a position to
affect the future consumption of football. This book shows how this
was achieved and how a small core network of approximately 30
supporters, networked with supporter groups across Europe, now stand
to impact and shape the consumption habits of a key leisure practice
all over the world. This is fascinating reading for any student,
researcher, or policy-maker with an interest in football, sociology,
political science, public policy, or cultural and social history.
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Fan Networks, Tactics, and Mobilisations
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781000956146
Publisert
2023
Utgave
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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