Offside Racism

Author : Colin King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Offside Racism written by Colin King and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a fact that disproportionately few black football players have ever been employed as managers or coaches, despite their prominent presence on the field. How big a role does racism play in contributing to this depressing statistic? 'Play the White Man' is the metaphor King uses to explain how race, racism and inequality operate. He looks at the pressures placed on black players to adopt a culture dominated by white men in sport - in other words, 'to act white' in order to be accepted. He focuses on how racism functions when black players make the transition from the playing field to coaching, management and administration, and are forced to perform within the standards and systems set by white men who have historically held these positions. King provides provocative insights into the world of white-dominated British sport and raises controversial questions that are important for anyone interested in the game.

Author : Brett Bebber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317321618
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence and Racism in Football written by Brett Bebber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study, based on government records, newspaper articles and fanzines, explores the complex interaction between politicians, police and the perpetrators of football violence. Bebber looks at how successive governments tried to impose law and order on football ‘hooligans’, whilst inadvertently escalating the violence.

Author : Christos Kassimeris
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739119600
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Football in Black and White written by Christos Kassimeris and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European Football in Black and White offers an engaging interpretation of a disturbing phenomenon in Europe's favorite sport: football violence fueled by racism. While many fans across Europe have used football to further destructive ethnocentric agendas, there are also pan-European initiatives in the football stadium to combat the almost endemic problem. Christos Kassimeris analyzes political ideologies that have influenced football supporters, drawing attention to the increasing politicization of football and the footballization of politics. He also considers the contributions of nationalism, social class, and media coverage before assessing attempts by various groups, from the Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE) network to the European Union, to rectify the problem. Ultimately, he concludes that football needs to be dissociated from both racism and politics for the sport to flourish. Unlike more traditional attempts to explain football violence and racism, this book seeks to establish a Europe-wide as well as a national explanatory framework for racism from a political perspective. This study will draw the interest not only of scholars across the humanities and social sciences, but also of ordinary football supporters. Book jacket.

Author : Mark Alleyne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351531425
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anti-racism and Multiculturalism written by Mark Alleyne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All scholarly books are engagements with the existing literature, often the published scholarly work of one established discipline. This book originated with modest objectives, to produce a work that would be in conversation with the literature of international relations even though not of relevance only to that field. The professed goal of international relations is international peace. The ethical lens of pondering the best means to achieve world peace is used to filter media content in the field of multiculturalism and anti-racism. Although there has been little work on the impact of racial difference on the contours of contemporary international order, there has been a sizeable body of research intended to abolish the credibility of pseudo-scientific racism. Such racism has provided the ideological foundation and justification for imperialism, colonialism, the holocaust, and apartheid. Race has been debunked as a myth. Because of this, racism - the ideology bred of human classification according to racial difference - has been found to be intellectually and morally barren. But the need to communicate egalitarian and scientific sentiments remains. The contributors to this volume consider five questions: How does the literature on antiracism improve our understanding of conflict resolution? How does the analysis of the media's role in racist and anti-racist discourses improve the process of theorizing on hate and war propaganda? How can research on anti-racist discourse improve UN peacekeeping? What implications does this subject have for theory-building and cultural diversity? How and why should the literature on anti-racism expand research in international relations? This is a unique, worthwhile framework for cross-disciplinary research in race and intellectual consensus and conflict.

Author : Daniel Burdsey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100021009X
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racism and English Football written by Daniel Burdsey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racism and English Football: For Club and Country analyses the contemporary manifestations, outcomes and implications of the fractious relationship between English professional football and race. Racism, we were told, had disappeared from English football. It was relegated to a distant past, and displaced onto other European countries. When its appearance could not be denied, it was said to have reappeared. This book reveals that this was not true. Racism did not go away and did not return. It was here all along. The book argues that racism is firmly embedded and historically rooted in the game’s structures, cultures and institutions, and operates as a form of systemic discrimination. It addresses the ways that racism has tainted English football, and the manner in which football has, in turn, influenced racial meanings and formations in wider society. Equally, it explores how football has facilitated forms of occupational multiculture, black player activism and progressive fan politics that resist divisive social phenomena and offer a degree of hope for an alternative future. Focusing on a diverse range of topics, in men’s and women’s football, at club and international level, Racism and English Football extends and expands our knowledge of how racism occurs and, critically, how it can be challenged. This is an essential read for scholars and students working on race, ethnicity, sport and popular culture, together with those interested in the social and organisational dynamics of English professional football more generally.

Author : Christos Kassimeris
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739138227
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anti-Racism in European Football written by Christos Kassimeris and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-08-10 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European societies have long been tarnished by racial discrimination, and the game of football is no exception. With immigrants arriving from former colonies, European Union member-states, and third-world countries, integration in these two societies has been ascribed significance across the continent. Considering that the conduct of football fans in stadiums reflects_to a certain extent_society as a whole, this book examines the impact of racism upon the popular game. Anti-Racism in European Football provides a critical assessment of the campaigns and related policies of organizations that work to understand racism in football. It explores what has been achieved by the organizations' campaigns, the problems they encountered, and how these were overcome. In its focus on the work that anti-racism organizations carry out, this book's original contributions should appeal to professionals in football-related NGOs, and students and scholars working in social science fields related to racism and sport.

Author : Allan Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317678419
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport and the Communities written by Allan Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past three decades there has been widespread commitment to an understanding that sport can play a key role in community development. The role of sport within communities has been promoted with a wide range of goals such as environmental considerations, encouragement of civic pride, enhancement of confidence and self-esteem and development of social cohesion as well as the fostering of a fit and healthy workforce. To address these issues, a number of programmes have been funded and supported to develop the role of sport in communities worldwide and to increase participation and access to sport and physical activities in rural areas. In addition we are witnessing the development of new sports communities through social media such as Facebook and My Space. The concern is that we need to revisit the concept of ‘community and sport’ and to investigate the current understanding of these terms in view of the evolving role of sport in a range of national settings. This book will present the platform upon which this process can be undertaken and offers a fundamental re-evaluation of the relationship that currently exists between sport and communities throughout selected parts of the world. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

Author : J. Long
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023030589X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport and Challenges to Racism written by J. Long and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the different agents of change in the context of wider socio-political shifts and explores issues of policy formation, practices in sport and anti-racism in sport, and the challenge to sport today.

Author : Ellis Cashmore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137371277
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Football's Dark Side: Corruption, Homophobia, Violence and Racism in the Beautiful Game written by Ellis Cashmore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Association football is the richest, most popular sport in history with a multicultural global following. It is also riven with corruption, racism, homophobia and a violence that has for decades resisted all attempts to tame it. Cashmore and Cleland examine football's dark side: the unpleasant, sleazy and downright nasty aspects of the sport.

Author : Dominic Malcolm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135157197
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport and Sociology written by Dominic Malcolm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has our understanding of sport been shaped by sociological ideas? How can the study of sport help sociologists to understand wider society? The sociology of sport is a sub-discipline approaching maturity. This is the first book to stand back and reflect upon the subject’s growth, to trace its developmental phases and to take stock of the current fund of knowledge. It offers a ‘state of the art’ review of the sociology of sport and investigates those areas where sport has come to influence the sociological mainstream. The book also examines how the sociology of sport has attempted to engage with a popular readership, and what the consequences of such engagement have been. Focusing on touchstone issues and concepts within sociological discourse such as race, gender, celebrity, the body and social theory, the book assesses the successes and failures of the sociology of sport in influencing the parent discipline, related sub-disciplines and the wider public. It also asks to what extent the sociology of sport can be said to be autonomous, distinctive and distinguished, and challenges students of sport to extend their work out of the narrow confines of the subdiscipline and across disciplinary divides. As the first book to provide a history of the sociology of sport and to clearly locate the contemporary discipline in the wider currents of sociological discourse, this is important reading for all students and scholars interested in the relationship between sport and society, whether they are working in sport studies or in the sociological mainstream.