Russia and the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Despite many negative expectations of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Russia delivered one of the best World Cups in living memory. This book brings together leading scholars working in Russian studies, sociology and political science to analyse the 2018 World Cup and assess its significance for sport, Russia, and the world.
The book explores the connections between sport, soft power, populism, protest, and international politics, and investigates topics including security, surveillance, social media, and patriotic mobilization, shining new light on key contemporary themes in the social sciences. It reflects upon the importance of sporting mega events for public diplomacy, and considers what the 2018 World Cup can tell us about the current condition of Russian society and the Russian state.
This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in soccer, sport and society, Russia, international politics, events, or post-Soviet societies.
Richard Arnold is Associate Professor of Political Science at Muskingum University, USA, where he teaches courses on International Sports and Politics, Russian Politics, Russian Foreign Policy, and Ethnic Conflict and Nationalism.
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The Critical Research in Football book series was launched in 2017 to showcase the inter- and multi-disciplinary breadth of debate relating to football. The series defines football as broader than association football, with research on rugby, Gaelic and gridiron codes also featured. Including monographs, edited collections, short books and textbooks, books in the series are written and/or edited by leading experts in the field whilst consciously also affording space to emerging voices in the area, and are designed to appeal to students, postgraduate students and scholars who are interested in the range of disciplines in which critical research in football connects. The series is published in association with the Football Collective, www.footballcollective.org.uk.
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Russia and the 2018 FIFA World Cup
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Names: Arnold, Richard (Richard A.), editor.
Title: Russia and the 2018 FIFA World Cup / edited by Richard
Arnold.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. |
Series: Critical research in football | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020043763 | ISBN 9780367372057 (hardback) |
ISBN 9780429353031 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: World Cup (Soccer) (2016 : Russia) |
SoccerPolitical aspectsRussia (Federation) |
Legitimacy of governmentsRussia (Federation) |
Russia (Federation)Foreign relations21st century.
Classification: LCC GV943.5 2018 .R87 2021 |
DDC 796.33409947086dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020043763
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Dedicated to the memory of John Hodak, a true lover of sports.
Contents
RICHARD ARNOLD
1 The state of play in Russian football
MANUEL VETH
2 Security and the spectacle: the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russias safest city
VOLKAN IPEK AND ANDREY MAKARYCHEV
3 Populist tactics: Ramzan Kadyrovs use of football as a political tool during the 2018 FIFA World Cup
MICHAEL COLE
4 Increased output legitimacy by hosting mega sport events? The 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russian Twitter discourse
HENK ERIK MEIER, JULIA GLATHE, MICHAEL MUTZ AND MARTIN HLZEN
5 Sport and domestic soft power in Russia: take the skinheads bowling
RICHARD ARNOLD
6 The case of Pussy Riots protest at the World Cup 2018 in Russia: the policeman enters the game
OLGA IAKIMOVA
7 Football, film, and the Russian state: an unorthodox alliance
PETER ROLLBERG
8 Russian soft power as a result of FIFA 2018
TATIANA ZONOVA
9 Vladimir Putin, Russian foreign policy, and the 2018 FIFA World Cup: making Russia great again
ANDREW FOXALL
10 Global soft power and local effects of the World Cup in Russia, Brazil, and South Africa
MARINA MIKHAYLOVA
- 1 The state of play in Russian football
- 2 Security and the spectacle: the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russias safest city
- 3 Populist tactics: Ramzan Kadyrovs use of football as a political tool during the 2018 FIFA World Cup
- 4 Increased output legitimacy by hosting mega sport events? The 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russian Twitter discourse
- 5 Sport and domestic soft power in Russia: take the skinheads bowling
- 6 The case of Pussy Riots protest at the World Cup 2018 in Russia: the policeman enters the game
- 7 Football, film, and the Russian state: an unorthodox alliance
- 8 Russian soft power as a result of FIFA 2018
- 9 Vladimir Putin, Russian foreign policy, and the 2018 FIFA World Cup: making Russia great again
- 10 Global soft power and local effects of the World Cup in Russia, Brazil, and South Africa
Guide
Michael Cole is a PhD candidate at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and visiting researcher at the Jagiellonian University, Poland.
Andrew Foxall is Director of the Russia and Eurasia Studies Centre at the Henry Jackson Society, a London-based international affairs think tank, UK.
