African Soccerscapes
How a Continent Changed the World's Game
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19926309 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Alegi (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | African soccerscapes (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Ohio University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1353/book.598 |
| OpenAlex | W4229990748 |
| Open Library | OL23945394M |
| ISBN | 9780896804722 |
| GOOGLE_BOOK_ID | NrW50yHkr0EC |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 78 |
Computer Science · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports Analytics and Performance · Sports, Gender, and Society · Africa · History · Soccer · Sports
Can Highlanders FC break the jinx? Contesting press discourses on Highlanders FC’s nine-year failure in the ‘battle of Zimbabwe’
Between Empire and Agency
Football as an instrument of evangelisation
‘Today you are not a white man, you are a Black Man’
African football, identity politics and global media narratives
Sabc News Online (re)framing of xenophobia and migrants from 2019 to 2022
From Apartheid to Unity
Kwame Nkrumah’s Overthrow and Its Effect on National Team Players (1957–1980)
Peacebuilding and Social Change Through Soap Opera
Frenemies
Wearing loyalty
Consumer behaviour and the relational dynamics of English premier league supporters in Nigeria
Backward, homogenized, and commodified
Club, nation, player
Africa united
Changing the game in Nigeria? Appropriating Internet and web 2.0 for sport communication
Pitch invasion
Politics, resistance and patronage
Dark-skinned pioneers in European national football teams
Playing football in Cameroon as a girl
Football clubs’ recruitment strategies and international player migration
South Asia and South-East Asia
Transnational communications, attitudes and fan identity
Football fandom, ethno-regionalism and rivalry in post-colonial Zimbabwe
Five dollars and a dress
The FLN 1961 football tour of Yugoslavia
Shoot-outs for the nation
Soccer, women, society
Players of African descent representing European national football teams
Only a game? The politics of football, the English Premier League, and its wider international relations
Sport and Racial Discrimination in Colonial Zimbabwe
Grappling with the Past
Introduction
Crafting Sport History Behind Bars
These Our Games” – Sport and the Church of Scotland Mission to Kenya, c. 1907–1937
Grown-Ups on White Plastic Chairs
The “Bigger Picture”
Exile
Conclusion
Imploding or Perpetuating African Myths through Reporting South Africa 2010 World Cup Stories on Business Opportunities
Making Identity on the Swahili Coast
Radio Soundings
Fifa and the South Africa question
South African Football Tours at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
African footballers in Europe
Photo George, in Douala
Rethinking Masculinity in the Neoliberal Order
Young Africans supporting European clubs
African sport in the global arena
A home away from home
Nigerian football
More than vuvuzelas? Towards an understanding of soccer fandom in Johannesburg
A Continent's Beautiful Game
Whose nation? The racialization of sporting heroes and the emergence of new cosmopolitan imaginaries
S Africa in Historical Perspective
Media, Big men and Power Struggles in Football Bodies
Kalamazoo Remembered
Unequal Road
Enduring Legacies and Convergent Identities
Let Us Rally Around the Flag’
The promise of empowerment
Better Off at Home? Rethinking Responses to Trafficked West African Footballers in Europe
Exploratory foray into the nexus between football and climate change in Africa
The toponymy of sporting venues
Bhora Mugedhi versus Bhora musango
Make me proud! Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games and its effect on national pride of young Singaporeans
Do Nations Have Stomachs? Food, Drink and Imagined Community in Africa
The Role of Amateur Football in Circular Migration Systems in South Africa
Coaching African National teams
Till death do us part
The pull of soccer and the push of Xhosa boys in an HIV and drug abuse intervention in the Western Cape, South Africa
(Don't) Visit Rwanda
You have to try your luck
Invictusor evict-us? Media images of South Africa through the lens of the Fifa World Cup
Sport, Modernity, and the Body
The athlete's body and the global condition
When Said with a Sneer
Green Eagle Nation
| Unique citing works | 78 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,88 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 78 |