Africa's World Cup
Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19940353 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Peter Alegi, Chris Bolsmann (0000-0002-8131-0283) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Africa's World Cup (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Michigan Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3998/mpub.4038158 |
| OpenAlex | W567039587 |
| ISBN | 9780472071944 |
| Open Library | OL30662870M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
Africas World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space focuses on a remarkable month in the modern history of Africa and in the global history of football. Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann are well-known experts on South African football, and they have assembled an impressive team of local and international journalists, academics, and football experts to reflect on the 2010 World Cup and its broader significance, its meanings, complexities, and contradictions. The World Cups 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 volume is richly illustrated by authors photographs, and the essays in this 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 Cups private and public spaces; football exhibits in South African museums; and critiques of the World Cups processes of inclusion and exclusion, as well as its political and economic legacies. The volume concludes with a forum on the World Cup, including Thabo Dladla, Director of Soccer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Mohlomi Kekeletso Maubane, a well-known Soweto-based writer and a soccer researcher, and Rodney Reiners, former professional footballer and current chief soccer writer for the Cape Argus newspaper in Cape Town. This collection will appeal to students, scholars, journalists, and fans. Cover illustration: South African fan blowing his vuvuzela at South Africa vs. France, Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein, June 22, 2010. Photo by Chris Bolsmann
Art · Football · Media studies · Nationalism · Negotiation · Patriotism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Gender Studies · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society · Manners and customs · Nationalism and sports · Soccer · Social aspects · Social life and customs · South Africa · Sports · Tournaments · World cup (soccer) · World Cup (Soccer) (2010 : South Africa) · World Cup (Soccer) fast · World Cup (Soccer) fast (OCoLC)fst01409245
Sport and Post-Apartheid South Africa
Taking South African sport seriously
Local meanings of a sport mega-event's legacies
Reflections on soccer, sovereignty and the state of exception
Fifa seen from a postcolonial perspective
Smarter than Smart
African sport in the global arena
More than vuvuzelas? Towards an understanding of soccer fandom in Johannesburg
Rationales, rhetoric and realities
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2016 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |