Stadium Worlds

<p>Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. Four thematic sections bring together an international multi-disciplinary range of perspectives with particular focus on the stadium.</p><p>Examples from architectural design, media studies and archaeology are used while studying advertising, economics, migration, fandom, local identities, emotions, gender, and the sociology of space. Texts and case-studies build up this useful book for lecturers and researchers in sociology, cultural studies, geography, architecture, sport and environment.</p> <p>Introduction: Football, Space and the Built Environment<em> </em><strong>Part 1: The Politics of Representation and Design </strong>1. The New European Stadium<em> </em>2. "Show Yourself to the People!": Ancient Stadia, Politics and Society 3. Challenging the Stadium: Watching Sport Events in Public<em> </em><strong>Part 2: Architecture and Media</strong> 4. The Stadium as a Cash Machine 5. The Mirror Stage in the Stadium: Media Spaces of Television and Architecture 6. Killing Sports Fields: The Amahora Stadium Complex in Kigali, Rwanda <em> </em><strong>Part 3: When Global Flows Meet Local Cultures 7</strong>. Global Players and the Stadium: Migration and Borders in Professional Football 8. Going to the Match: The Transformation of the Match-Day Routine at Manchester City FC 9. "Come Home": The Stadium, Locality and the Community at FC United of Manchester <em> </em><strong>Part 4: Gender and Space </strong>10. Sport, Football and Masculine Identity: The Stadium as a Window onto Gender Construction<em> </em>11. Producting Gender-Normative Spaces in U.S. Women's Professional Soccer<em> </em>12. Football Under Cover in Tehran's Ararat Stadium<em> </em><strong>Part 5: Emotions and the Body </strong>13. Emotions in Sports Stadia<em> </em><strong> </strong>14. Heroes, Myths and Magic Moments: Religious Elements on the Sacred Ground 15. ‘Beckhamania’: Promoting Post-modern Celebrities Beyond the Stadium <strong> </strong>16. Conclusion: The Stadium – Lense and Refuge</p>