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Conference paper | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Global perspectives on football in Africa: visualising the game |
Editors: | Baller, Susann Miescher, Giorgio Rassool, Ciraj |
Chapter(s): | Present |
Year: | 2013 |
Pages: | 194 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Sport in the global society, Contemporary perspectives |
City of publisher: | London |
Publisher: | Routledge |
ISBN: | 0415572290; 9780415572293 |
Geographic terms: | Africa Congo (Democratic Republic of) Ghana Kenya Namibia Senegal South Africa Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | football images cartoons posters postage stamps advertising conference papers (form) 2010 |
Abstract: | This collective volume, which is based on a conference held in Basel in January 2010, explores the visual worlds of football in Africa. It considers pictures and images of football, football players and fans, as well as their social, cultural and political roles in society. The chapters were originally published in 'Soccer and Society', volume 13, issue 2 (March 2012). Chapters: Visualizing the game: global perspectives on football in Africa (Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher and Ciraj Rassool); Representation in the first African World Cup: 'world-class', Pan-Africanism, and exclusion (Chris Bolsmann); Visualising modernity: development hopes and the 2010 FIFA World Cup (Kate Manzo); 'Fields of play': the District Six Museum and the history of football in Cape Town (Ciraj Rassool and Virgil Slade); The African footballer as visual object and figure of success: Didier Drogba and social meaning (Daniel Künzler and Raffaele Poli); Football imagery and colonial legacy: Zaire's disastrous campaign during the 1974 World Cup (Paul Dietschy); Envisioning and visualizing English football in East Africa: the case of a Kenyan radio football commentator (Solomon Waliaula); Visualising politics in African sport: political and cultural constructions in Zimbabwean soccer (Praise Zenenga); Black chicken, white chicken: patriotism, morality and the aesthetics of fandom in the 2008 African Cup of Nations in Ghana (Mattia Fumanti); Visualizing African football in apartheid Namibia: photography, posters and constructions of consumers and nationalism (Giorgio Miescher and Dag Henrichsen); Visualizing the game: the iconography of football on African postage stamps (Agbenyega Adedze); Football and the representation of history: the Senegalese 2002 'success story' in football cartoons and advertisements (Susann Baller). [ASC Leiden abstract] |