1st Edition
Stadium Worlds Football, Space and the Built Environment
Introduction: Football, Space and the Built Environment Sybille Frank & Silke Steets Part 1: The Politics of Representation and Design 1. The New European Stadium Anthony King 2. "Show Yourself to the People!: Ancient Stadia, Politics and Society Bettina Kratzmüller 3. Challenging the Stadium: Watching Sport Events in Public Hans-Jürgen Schulke Part 2: Architecture and Media 4. The Stadium as a Cash Machine Michael Zinganel 5. The Mirror Stage in the Stadium: Media Spaces of Television and Architecture Angelika Schnell 6. Killing Sports Fields: The Amahora Stadium Complex in Kigali, Rwanda Bruno Arich-Gerz Part 3: When Global Flows Meet Local Cultures 7. Global Players and the Stadium: Migration and Borders in Professional Football Christian Banse 8. Going to the Match: The Transformation of the Match-day Routine at Manchester City FC Tim Edensor and Steve Millington 9. "Come Home": The Stadium, Locality and the Community at FC United of Manchester Adam Brown Part 4: Gender and Space 10. Sport, Football and Masculine Identity: The Stadium as a Window onto Gender Construction Christian Bromberger 11. Producting Gender-normative Spaces in U.S. Women's Professional Soccer Tiffany Muller Myrdahl 12. Football Under Cover in Tehran's Ararat Stadium Corinna Assmann and Silke Gülker Part 5: Emotions and the Body 13. Emotions in Sports Stadia Mike S. Schäfer & Jochen Roose 14. Heroes, Myths and Magic Moments: Religious Elements on the Sacred Ground Gunter Gebauer 15. ‘Beckhamania’: Promoting Post-modern Celebrities Beyond the Stadium Johannes John 16. Conclusion: The Stadium – Lense and Refuge Sybille Frank and Silke Steets
Biography
Sybille Frank and Silke Steets are sociologists working at the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
"Through a wonderfully eclectic collection of essays, the stadium and its meanings, influences and resonances are the central subject of this carefully considered and well thought book." – Geografiska Annaler
