European football and collective memory / edited by Wolfram Pyta and Nils Havemann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pyta, Wolfram, 1960- editor.

Havemann, Nils, editor.

Series:

Football research in an enlarged Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soccer--Europe.

Soccer--Social aspects--Europe.

National characteristics, European.

Collective memory--Europe.

Collective memory.

Soccer.

Soccer--Social aspects.

Europe.

Physical Description:

x, 208 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

1. Introduction: Football Memory in a European Perspective; Wolfram Pyta

2. How are Football Games Remembered? Idioms of Memory in Modern Football; Tobias Werron

3. Negotiating the Cold War? Perspectives in Memory Research on the UEFA, the Early European Football Competitions and the European Nations Cups; Jürgen Mittag

4. UEFA Football Competitions as European Sites of Memory: Cups of Identity?; Michael Groll

5. The Contribution of Real Madrid's First Five European Cups to the Emergence of a Common Football Space; Borja García-García, Ramón Llopis-Goig and Agustín Martín

6. Football and the European Collective Memory in Britain: the Case of the 1960 European Cup Final; Geoff Hare

7. Erecting a European 'Lieu de mémoire'? Media Coverage of the 1966 World Cup and French Discussions about the 'Wembley Goal'; Jean Christophe Meyer

8. George Best, a European Symbol, a European Hero?; David Ranc

9. Heysel and its Symbolic Value in Europe's Collective Memory; Clemens Kech

10. Football Sites of Memory in the Eastern Bloc 1945-1991; Seweryn Dmowski

11. Rituals and Practices of Memorial Culture in Football; Markwart Herzog.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137450142

1137450142

OCLC:

893522228

Publisher Number:

99962844566