Football politics in Central Europe and Eastern Europe : a study on the geopolitical area's tribal, imaginal, and contextual politics / edited by Roland Benedikter and Dariusz Wojtaszyn ; foreword by Lukas Zahner ; afterword by Krysztof Ruchniewicz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Benedikter, Roland, editor.

Series:

Lexington research in sports, politics, and international relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soccer--Political aspects--Europe.

Soccer.

Soccer--Political aspects.

Europe--Foreign relations.

Europe.

International relations.

Europe--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Diplomatic relations.

Physical Description:

xii, 145 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, 2020.

Summary:

Football in Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe has long functioned as a carrier of the three-on-normal -socio-political drivers that were effective below the surface of modernity, including the official self-image of European political systems, since the second half of the 20th century: Tribal Politics, Imaginal Politics, and Contextual Politics. All three are trends that are currently surfacing prominently on an international and global level. Long before the return of the now proverbial-Political Tribes' by the means of populisms and neo-authoritarianisms in societies around the world, football in Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe worked as a subconscious vehicle of group instincts and political moods that represented, mirrored, informed and influenced political behavior and governmental decisions both in the post-WWII communist and then, after 1989, the neo-capitalist societies located east of the former iron curtain. Football has always been used by both governments and their opponents, including the dissident civil society, to further coherence and to symbolically represent specific readings of power relations, system ideologies and history. Football in Central and Eastern Europe was always able to attract and include large parts of the population, inducing them to symbolically express protest against the government or to sustain the 'politics from above'. Through football politics, aspects of the area's specific political mechanisms are introduced and explained.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Football and Politics in Europe

-a Complex Relationship: A Very Short State of the Art / Mir Jam Gruber

2. Russia's 2018 Football World Championship: A Case of Imaginal Politics / Dariusz Wojtaszyn

3. Football Politics in Central-Eastern Europe: A Symptom of Growing Anti-Europeanism and Anti-Globalization? / Dariusz Wojtaszyn

4. "Identity Football" in Poland: A Driver of Tribal Politics and Re-Nationalization? / Dariusz Wojtaszyn

5. Borderline Football in Historically Contested Eastern European Areas: The Case of Lviv-Lemberg, Western Ukraine / Dariusz Wojtaszyn

6. Never Just a Game: Football National Team Matches as a Binational Rivalry Game

-the Case of Romania-Hungary / Bogdan Popa

7. Between East and West: Football in Divided Berlin / Dariusz Wojtaszyn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1793622469

9781793622464

OCLC:

1144961452