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Football and Communities Across Codes
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013.
This Football and Communities Across Codes volume brings together a diverse range of contributions on the theme of football and community across the footballing codes of Soccer, Australian Rules Football and Rugby League. It provides a unique global perspective to the shared cross-cutting challenges facing football clubs, communities, stakeholders, and of course, football fans. In this volume the authors discuss the nature of fandom, how we use football to communicate, transnational community building through sport, football as a vehicle for mobilising community assets, how new sports clubs can create new communities and new tribalism and the differences of fan and spectator experience inside stadiums and in virtual fan communities. This volume makes an essential contribution to our understanding of the reciprocal relationship between football and community.
This Football and Communities Across Codes volume brings together a diverse range of contributions on the theme of football and community across the footballing codes of Soccer, Australian Rules Football and Rugby League. It provides a unique global perspective to the shared cross-cutting challenges facing football clubs, communities, stakeholders, and of course, football fans. In this volume the authors discuss the nature of fandom, how we use football to communicate, transnational community building through sport, football as a vehicle for mobilising community assets, how new sports clubs can create new communities and new tribalism and the differences of fan and spectator experience inside stadiums and in virtual fan communities. This volume makes an essential contribution to our understanding of the reciprocal relationship between football and community.
Deirdre Hynes, is Principal Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her current research focuses on female football fans and issues surrounding disenfranchisement, exclusion and empowerment. She is a passionate Liverpool fan and regular match-goer.
Annabel Kiernan, is Principal Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her teaching and research interests focus on community engagement, Big Society, and UK public service reform. She is a season ticket holder and co-owner of FC United of Manchester.
Keith Parry is Lecturer in Sport Management at the University of Western Sydney. His research interests are based around the sociology of sport, with a focus on sports fandom, and he has used a variety of qualitative methods to study these. His PhD examines the constructions of sports heroes within the setting of a new sports team.
Annabel Kiernan, is Principal Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her teaching and research interests focus on community engagement, Big Society, and UK public service reform. She is a season ticket holder and co-owner of FC United of Manchester.
Keith Parry is Lecturer in Sport Management at the University of Western Sydney. His research interests are based around the sociology of sport, with a focus on sports fandom, and he has used a variety of qualitative methods to study these. His PhD examines the constructions of sports heroes within the setting of a new sports team.