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The people's game : football fandom in Zimbabwe /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Langaa RPCIG,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. I Introduction and Background
- My Football Journey Begins
- Why Football Fandom?
- Methodological Framework
- Football Fandoms in Zimbabwe
- Structure of the Book
- ch. II Understanding the Processes of Becoming a Football Team Fan in an African Context: The Case of Dynamos Football Club Fans in Zimbabwe
- Introduction
- Brief Background of Dynamos Football Club
- Understanding Fandom: An International Perspective
- Defining a Fan in the Context of Present Research
- Process of Becoming a Fan among Dynamos Football Club Fans
- Group one (40 years and above)
- Group two (below 40 years)
- Explaining the process of becoming a fan
- a sociological analysis
- Socialization into a van
- Basking in reflected glory
- Structure-agency dichotomy
- Conclusion
- ch. III Till Death Do Us Part: Football as Part of Everyday Life Amongst Dynamos Football Club Fans in Zimbabwe
- Introduction
- Social Identity and Fan Identities
- Football and Social Identity
- Findings and Discussion
- Background to Dynamos Football Club
- Fandom as part of everyday life
- MuDembare: in group identities among Dynamos fans
- Conclusion
- ch. IV Football Rivalries in Zimbabwe
- Introduction
- Harare Derby: When the City Turns Blue or Green
- Battle of Zimbabwe: Football and Ethnicity In Dynamos versus Highlanders
- Mining Towns and Small Town Fan Identities
- Conclusion
- ch. V One of the Boys: Female Fans Responses to Masculine and Phallocentric Nature of Football Stadiums
- Introduction
- Patriarchal Nature of Fandom
- Women Fans From Across the World
- Findings and Discussion
- Singing with the boys: Women as active agents within stadiums
- We are here for the football: Forget about the singing
- Stadium is not for us: women who love football but forego the stadium
- Conclusion
- ch. VI Of Goals and Whores: Football Fandom and Misogynistic Songs at the Rufaro Stadium in Zimbabwe
- Introduction
- Football Chants and Songs: Global Vulgarity
- Songs and Language of the Stadium in Zimbabwe
- Symbols, Chants, Language and Behaviors of Stadium
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- ch. VII Creation and Meaning of Symbols among Dynamos Football Club Fans in Zimbabwe
- Introduction
- Symbolic Interactionism and the Creation of Meaning
- Symbols and Metaphors Used to Describe the Team
- Creation, Recreation and Meaning of Symbols: A Contested Enterprise
- Zora (Spread) Butter Phenomenon
- Rufaro Stadium: Spiritual Home for Dynamos Fans
- Conclusion
- ch. VIII Cyber-Fandoms in Zimbabwe
- Introduction
- Conceptual Framing of Online Fan Identities
- Organize in the Virtual and Meet in the Real: Facebook and Fan Groups
- Ethnicity and Football Identities
- Gender dimensions of online identities
- Online Fans as Imagined Communities
- Online Fan Identities as Globalized Identities
- Conclusion.