1st Edition
Globalised Football Nations and Migration, the City and the Dream
Introduction Globalised Football: A Lusocentric Perspective Part I 1. Lusophone Football Professionals in Anglophone Spaces 2. `Angels of Us All?´: Football Management, Globalisation and the Politics of Celebrity 3. Corporate Capitalism, transnational migration and the selling of soccer: The New England Revolution and Lusophone Diaspora populations Part II 4. Football History & Migration in/from Lusophone Spaces 5. Football and Colonialism, Domination and Appropriation: On the Mozambican case 6. African Football Labour Migration to Portugal: Colonial and Neo-Colonial Resource 7. Apollonians and Dionysiacs: Gilberto Freyre’s thought on the "Brazilian people" and the role of football 8. The Bloodletting of Football Talent: Brazilian Football and Globalisation Part III 9. Football, the Nation, the City and the Dream: Different historical and social experiences 10. Football in Russia: Nation, City and the Dream 11. Playing the Post-Fordist Game in/to the Far East: The Footballisation of China, Japan and South Korea 12. The Paradox of the Portuguese Game: On the omnipresence of football and the absence of spectators 13. Reflections on the new fiesta nacional(ista); soccer and society in modern Spain Part IV 14. Football Discourses and Social Conflict: Money, Myths and Movements 15. "Not For Sale"?: The destruction and reformation of football communities in the Glazer Take-over of Manchester United 16. On Stupidity in Football. An Essay
Biography
Nina Clara Tiesler, Joao Nuno Coelho
