Africa, Football and FIFA
Title | Africa, Football and FIFA PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Darby |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2013-10-08 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1135298416 |
This book explores the role of FIFA in brokering the development of football in Africa and its relationship with that continent's football associations and regional governing body. Africa is no longer on the periphery of world football but the economic disparities between the first and the third worlds hinder the development of the game. The author shows convincingly how Africa's advance within world football is tied to its national political economy and how the balance of power within FIFA still clearly favours its European members.
Africa, Football, and FIFA
Title | Africa, Football, and FIFA PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Darby |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2002-01 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 071468029X |
This book explores the role of FIFA in brokering the development of football in Africa and its relationship with that continent's football associations and regional governing body. Africa is no longer on the periphery of world football but the economic disparities between the first and the third worlds hinder the development of the game. The author shows convincingly how Africa's advance within world football is tied to its national political economy and how the balance of power within FIFA still clearly favours its European members.
Africa, Football and FIFA
Title | Africa, Football and FIFA PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Darby |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2013-10-08 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1135298343 |
This book explores the role of FIFA in brokering the development of football in Africa and its relationship with that continent's football associations and regional governing body. Africa is no longer on the periphery of world football but the economic disparities between the first and the third worlds hinder the development of the game. The author shows convincingly how Africa's advance within world football is tied to its national political economy and how the balance of power within FIFA still clearly favours its European members.
Africa's World Cup
Title | Africa's World Cup PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Alegi |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2013-05-16 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0472051946 |
Africa’s 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 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 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 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. 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.
Global Perspectives on Football in Africa
Title | Global Perspectives on Football in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Susann Baller |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2013-10-31 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1317965876 |
Football, in many ways, is a visual endeavour. From the visual experience within the stadium itself to worldwide media representations, from advertisements to football art and artefacts: football is much about seeing and being seen, about watching, making visual and being visualised. The FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa has turned into a perfect example of the visual dimensions of football. Stadiums have been built and marketed as tourist attractions, mass media and internet platforms are advertising South African cities and venues, logos and emblems are displayed and celebrated, exhibitions are organised in museums world-wide. This book explores the social, cultural and political role of football in Africa by focusing on the issue of its visibility and invisibility. The contributions consider the history and present of football in different parts of Africa. They examine historical and recent pictures and images of football and football players, as well as places and spaces of their production and perception. They analyse the visual dimensions expressed in sports infrastructure, football media-scapes, and in expressive and material arts. This book thus contributes to the growing interest in football in Africa by exploring a new field of research into sports. This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.
Football in Africa
Title | Football in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Anver Versi |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN |
African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives
Title | African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives PDF eBook |
Author | Tendai Chari |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2016-02-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137392231 |
This edited volume addresses key debates around African football, identity construction, fan cultures, and both African and global media narratives. Using the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa as a lens, it explores how football in Africa is intimately bound up with deeper social, cultural and political currents.