English National Identity and Football Fan Culture
Taylor & Francis
English National Identity and Football Fan CultureWho Are Ya?\nAuthor(s): Tom Gibbons\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367332914, 978-0367332914\nSynopsis\nIn recent years, scholars have understood the increasing use of the St Georges Cross by football fans to be evidence of a rise in a specifically English identity. This has emerged as part of a wider national response to broader political processes such as devolution and European integration which have fragmented identities within the UK. Using the controversial figurational sociological approach advocated by the twentieth-century theorist Norbert Elias, this book challenges such a view, drawing on ethnographic research amongst fans to explore the precise nature of the relationship between contemporary English national identity and football fan culture. Examining football fans expressions of Englishness in public houses and online spaces, the author discusses .
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