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Title:Africa's World Cup: critical reflections on play, patriotism, spectatorship, and space
Editors:Alegi, PeterISNI
Bolsmann, ChrisISNI
Year:2013
Pages:256
Language:English
City of publisher:Ann Arbor
Publisher:University of Michigan Press
ISBN:0472071947; 9780472071944; 0472051946; 9780472051946; 0472029118; 9780472029112
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:football
2010
social conditions
Abstract:This collective volume focuses on a remarkable month in the modern history of Africa and in the global history of football. A team of local and international journalists, academics, and football experts reflect on the 2010 World Cup and its broader significance, its meanings, complexities, and contradictions. The World Cup's sounds, sights, and aesthetics are explored, along with questions of patriotism, nationalism, and spectatorship in Africa and around the world. Experts on urban design and communities write on how the presence of the World Cup worked to refashion urban spaces and negotiate the local struggles in the hosting cities. The essays in the volume feature chronicles of match day experiences; travelogues; ethnographies of fan cultures; analyses of print, broadcast, and electronic media coverage of the tournament; reflections on the World Cup's private and public spaces; football exhibits in South African museums; and critiques of the World Cup's processes of inclusion and exclusion, as well as its political and economic legacies. Contributors: Simon Adetona Akindes, Peter Alegi, Orli Bass, Chris Bolsmann, Thabo Dladla, Killian Doherty, Jennifer Doyle, Laurent Dubois, Marc Fletcher, Albert Grundlingh, Andrew M. Guest, John Samuel Harpham, Sergio Varela Hernández, Daniel Herwitz, Anna Mayumi Kerber, David Patrick Lane, Mohlomi Kekeletso Maubane, John Nauright, Mark Perryman, Niels Posthumus, Fiona Rankin-Smith, Rodney Reiners, David Roberts, Meg Vandermerwe, Craig Waite and Solomon Waliaula. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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