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By Tom Gibbons

ISBN-10: 1472423283

ISBN-13: 9781472423283

in recent times, students have understood the expanding use of the St George’s go by means of soccer enthusiasts to be facts of an increase in a particularly ’English’ id. This has emerged as a part of a much wider ’national’ reaction to broader political strategies reminiscent of devolution and eu integration that have fragmented identities in the united kingdom. utilizing the debatable figurational sociological method recommended through the twentieth-century theorist Norbert Elias, this booklet demanding situations the sort of view, drawing on ethnographic learn among fanatics to discover the appropriate nature of the connection among modern English nationwide identification and soccer fan tradition. reading soccer lovers’ expressions of Englishness in public homes and on-line areas, the writer discusses the results of globalization, eu integration and united kingdom devolution on English society, revealing that using the St George’s move doesn't sign the emergence of a in particular ’English’ nationwide awareness, yet actually mask a extra complicated, multi-layered strategy of nationwide id building. a close and down to earth examine of identification, nationalism and globalization among soccer fanatics, English nationwide identification and soccer Fan tradition will attract students and scholars of politics, sociology and anthropology with pursuits in ethnography, the sociology of recreation, fan cultures, globalization and modern nationwide identities.

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