| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: everyday fandom as consumption -- The historical rise of football fandom as consumption -- Theorising football fandom as consumption : outlining the need for an alternative approach -- Learning the game : the consumption of knowledge and the construction of "other" in late modern fandom -- Consuming corporate values : football fandom, habitus, disneyization and late modern life -- The routinisation of football consumption in late modern life -- Conclusions -- References. |
| Summary |
Consuming Football in Late Modern Life explores the phenomenon of football (soccer) fandom as consumption in the age of late modernity. By centralising fandom within the sociology of consumption, the book examines how this phenomenon equates to a fluid series of consumption activities that are practiced in the course of everyday life. In turn, the work departs from much of the existing literature that features exceptional properties of fanatical fans, in order to emphasise the position that seemingly trivial acts of consumption can have a profound influence on the construction, maintenance and. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Soccer.
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Soccer. |
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Soccer -- Economic aspects.
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Soccer -- Economic aspects. |
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Consumption (Economics)
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Consumption (Economics) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dixon, Kevin. Consuming football in late modern life. Burlington : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2013 9781409450948 (DLC) 2013000251 (OCoLC)827198373 |
| ISBN |
9781409450955 (electronic book) |
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1409450953 (electronic book) |
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9781409450948 (print) |
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9781472401106 (epub) |
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