Football and Accelerated Culture
In Football and Accelerated Culture, Steve Redhead offers a new and challenging theorisation of global football culture, exploring the relationship between sport and culture in a rapidly shifting world. Incorporating cutting-edge concepts, from accelerated culture and claustropolitanism to non-postmodernity, he reflects on the demise of working class football cultures and the rapid media globalisation of the peoples game.
Drawing on international empirical research and a unique and ground-breaking study of football hooligan memoirs, the book delves into a wide array of disciplines, examining fascinating topics such as the relationship between music and football; hooligans and ultras; the rise of social media and anti-modern football movements; and ultra-realist criminology.
Football and Accelerated Culture offers a new way of thinking about sporting cultures that expands the boundaries of physical cultural studies. As such, it is important reading for anybody with an interest in the culture of sport and leisure, social theory, communication studies, criminology or socio-legal studies.
Steve Redhead is Professor of Jurisprudence in the Faculty of Arts at Charles Sturt University, Australia. Steve is also Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Studies Programme in Humanities in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at York University, Canada. He has published fifteen books including: Sing When Youre Winning: The Last Football Book, Football With Attitude, Rave Off, The Passion and The Fashion: Football Fandom in the New Europe, Post-Fandom and The Millennial Blues: The Transformation of Soccer Culture, Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture, The Paul Virilio Reader and The Jean Baudrillard Reader. His book We Have Never Been Postmodern: Theory at the Speed of Light was nominated for the American Comparative Literature Association Rene Wellek Prize. Steve edits the Subcultural Style book series for Bloomsbury and is a reviewer for the Times Higher Education. He is Associate Editor of CrimeTalk and a member of many journal editorial boards, including CrimeTalk, Sport in Society, International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies, fusion, I-M e-journal, and Entertainment and Sports Law Journal
Football and Accelerated Culture
This Modern Sporting Life
Steve Redhead
First published 2015
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Redhead, Steve, 1952-
Football and accelerated culture : this modern sporting life / Steve Redhead.
pages cm. -- (Routledge research in sport, culture and society ; 47)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-138-92315-7 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-315-68523-6 (ebook)
1. Soccer--Social aspects. I. Title.
GV943.9.S64R43 2015
796.334--dc23
2015005062
ISBN: 978-1-138-92315-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-68523-6 (ebk)
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Contents
Steve Redhead is Professor of Jurisprudence in the Faculty of Arts at Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia. Steve is also Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Studies Programme in Humanities in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at York University, Ontario, Canada. He has published fifteen books including: Sing When Youre Winning: The Last Football Book, Football With Attitude, Rave Off, The Passion and The Fashion: Football Fandom in the New Europe, Post-Fandom and The Millennial Blues: The Transformation of Soccer Culture, Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture, The Paul Virilio Reader and The Jean Baudrillard Reader. His book We Have Never Been Postmodern: Theory at the Speed of Light was nominated for the American Comparative Literature Association Rene Wellek Prize. Steve edits the Subcultural Style book series for Bloomsbury. He is a reviewer for the Times Higher Education. He is Associate Editor of CrimeTalk and a member of many journal editorial boards, including CrimeTalk, Sport in Society, International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies, fusion, I-M e-journal, and Entertainment and Sports Law Journal.
Thanks especially to my one time University of Brighton sports studies postgraduates Ben Horne, Simon Penny and Patrick Slaughter for their involvement in my various research projects and to all the authors and publishers of football hooligan memoirs, and other genres, who gave their time freely to answer our questions and correspondence as part of the long term hit and tell archival research project which I directed. Quotations throughout the book which are unattributed come directly from the unique and original material collected for the hit and tell project. A big shout out to Steve Hall and Simon Winlow and all at Teesside Centre for Realist Criminology (TCRC) in the Social Futures Institute in the School of Social Sciences and Law at University of Teesside in the UK where I am proud to be on the International Advisory Board definitely the best place for ultra-realist criminology on the planet. Thanks to producer Mick Gold for the work we did together on preparing a proposal for a documentary programme for BBC4 on football, popular culture, youth culture and popular music based on some of the ideas in this book and Martin Cloake for asking me to write an introduction to his wonderful book on English footballs culture wars. Also, general heartfelt thanks to all my academic colleagues and postgraduate students in the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Arts at Charles Sturt University in New South Wales for their support, collegiality and good cheer, for their involvement in my research projects and for their questions and answers on all aspects of this book. Thanks, too, to Csaba Polony, who sadly died in 2014, for commissioning my work for his USA West Coast journal Left Curve over many years. Lastly, this book like all of my publications since 2001 began in what my wife Professor Tara Brabazon calls Snowy Jones office, in reality a narrow room in the Western Australian house beside the Indian Ocean of my parents in law, Kevin and Doris Brabazon, always my biggest supporters. My greatest thanks to them for their hospitality, generosity and laughter.
