Tag: Caroline Azad
Soccer & Society, Volume 25, 2024, Issue 2 | The Development of Women’s Football: Under What Conditions?
Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Playing football in Cameroon as a girl: a match for equality by Béatrice Bertho, Françoise Grange-Omokaro, Iyama M. Douna & Dominique Malatesta (open access).
A valuable resource for anyone with an interest in the relationship between sport and place
The Political Football Stadium: Identity Discourses and Power Struggle, edited by Başak Alpan, Albrecht Sonntag & Katarzyna Herd (Palgrave Macmillan) focuses on the football stadium as a political space and examines how stadiums can be viewed as the objects and catalysts of political change. Alan Bairner has read a well-researched and informative tome with a wealth of interesting materials, but he is still able to suggest a couple of politically interesting stadiums to include in a second volume.
