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Consuming football in late modern life /

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 pract...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dixon, Kevin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Burlington : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.