Tag: Chris Porter
English football – from commodification and consumer culture to democratic forms of governance
Chris Porter’s contribution to the “Football Research in an Enlarged Europe” book series, Supporter Ownership in English Football: Class, Culture and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan), positions the culture of football fandom within the complex political and social class dynamics of contemporary society. Our reviewer is Arve Hjelseth, and he found Porter’s study instructive albeit somewhat wanting in theoretical depth.




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