1st Edition
FIFA World Cup and Beyond Sport, Culture, Media and Governance
Introduction
1. FIFA World Cup and beyond: sport, culture, media and governance
Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Souvik Naha and Shakya Mitra
FIFA World Cup and the Nation
2. A second ‘Maracanazo’? The 2014 FIFA World Cup in historical perspective
Kevin Moore
3. Reporting the 2014 World Cup: football first and social issues last
Helton Levy
4. Risk and (in)security of FIFA football World Cups – outlook for Russia 2018
Donna Wong and Simon Chadwick
5. The language of football: a cultural analysis of selected world cup nations
Niels N. Rossing and Lotte S. Skrubbeltrang
6. Conflicting traditions: the FIFA World Cup, Australia and football identities
Binoy Kampmark
7. Amnesia and animosity: an assessment of soccer in the States
David Kilpatrick
Sport, Culture, Media and Governance
8. The art of goalkeeping: memorializing Lev Yashin
Mike O’Mahony
9. Politics and international fandom in a fringe nation: La Albiceleste, Maradona, and Marxist Kolkata
Sarbajit Mitra and Souvik Naha
10. Soccer and the city: the game and its fans in Solo and Yogyakarta
Andy Fuller
11. Women’s time? Time and temporality in women’s football
Kath Woodward
12. Making sense of race/ethnicity and gender in televised football: reception research among British students
Rens Peeters and Jacco van Sterkenburg
13. FIFA, the video game: a major vehicle for soccer’s popularization in the United States
Andrei S. Markovits and Adam I. Green
14. Stakeholder governance and Irish sport
David Hassan and Ian O’Boyle
Biography
Kausik Bandyopadhyay is Professor of History at West Bengal State University, India. He was a former Fellow of the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland. A Deputy Executive Editor of Soccer & Society (Routledge), his most recent works include Mahatma on the Pitch: Gandhi and Cricket in India (2017) and Sport, Culture and Nation: Perspectives from Indian Football and South Asian Cricket (2015).
Souvik Naha has a PhD in History from the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. An Editor of Soccer & Society (Routledge), he has published his research in journals such as International Journal of the History of Sport, Sport in Society, Soccer & Society, Sport in History, and Economic and Political Weekly, as well as in various edited volumes.
Shakya Mitra is a post graduate in Sports Management from Stirling University, Scotland. He has worked in the Sports Management Industry as well as in the media in India for close to eight years. He has contributed articles to international journals and co-edited special issues of Routledge journals on sport.
