English National Identity and Football Fan Culture - 9781472423283

Taylor & Francis

Examining football fans\u2019 expressions of Englishness in public houses and online spaces, the author discusses the effects of globalisation, European integration and UK devolution on English society, revealing that the use of the St George\u2019s Cross does not signal the emergence of a specifically \u2019English\u2019 national consciousness, but in fact masks a more complex, multi-layered process of national identity construction. A detailed and grounded study of identity, nationalism and globalisation amongst football fans, English National Identity and Football Fan Culture will appeal to scholars and students of politics, sociology and anthropology with interests in ethnography, the sociology of sport, fan cultures, globalisation and contemporary national identities. > In recent years, scholars have understood the increasing use of the St George\u2019s Cross by football fans to be evidence of a rise in a specifically \u2019English\u2019 identity. This has emerged as part of .