Football and Supporter Activism in Europe Whose Game Is It?

This book is the first to explore and compare football governance, fandom culture and supporter engagement in Europe. With a specific focus on supporter activism and campaigning, the collection provides a comparative study of several European countries.&n

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This series will publish monographs and edited collections in collaboration with a major EU-funded FP7 research project ‘FREE’: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe. The series aims to establish Football Studies as a worthwhile, intellectual and pedagogical activity of academic significance and will act as a home for the burgeoning area of contemporary Football scholarship. The themes covered by the series in relation to football include, European identity, Memory, Women, Governance, History, the Media, Sports Mega-events, Business and Management, Culture, Spectatorship and Space and Place. The series will be highly interdisciplinary and transnational and the first of its kind to map stateof-the-art academic research on one of the world’s largest, most supported and most debated socio-cultural phenomenona. Editorial Board: Richard Giulianotti (Loughborough University, UK); Kay Schiller (Durham University, UK); Geoff Pearson (Liverpool University, UK); Jürgen Mittag (German Sport University Cologne, Germany); Stacey Pope (Durham University, UK); Peter Millward (Liverpool John Moores University, UK); Geoff Hare (Newcastle University, UK); Arne Niemann (Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany); David Goldblatt (Sports writer and broadcaster, UK); Patrick Mignon (National Institute for Sports and Physical Education, France). More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14987

Borja García • Jinming Zheng Editors

Football and Supporter Activism in Europe Whose Game Is It?

Editors Borja García School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences Loughborough University Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Football Research in an Enlarged Europe ISBN 978-3-319-48733-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-48734-2

Jinming Zheng Centre for Global Sport & Recreation Studies, Department of Physical Education Hong Kong Baptist University Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

ISBN 978-3-319-48734-2 (eBook)

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