Tag: football history
Soccer & Society, Volume 24, 2023, Issue 6
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: Merseyside football and the slave trade by David Kennedy.
Soccer & Society, Volume 24, 2023, Issue 5
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: ‘A little less conversation’: an exploration of soccer fan attitudes towards ‘the knee’ protest and the anti-racism message by Kevin Dixon, Ellis Cashmore & Jamie Cleland.
Soccer & Society, Volume 24, 2023, Issue 4 | The Champions? Thirty Years of the UEFA Champions League
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: ‘Full speed ahead Barcelona’: the social construction of Roy Keane’s 1999 semi-final performance versus Juventus by Steph Doehler (open access).
Call for Book Chapter Proposals | World Cup! History, Politics, and Art of the Beautiful Game | Call ends November 1, 2023
We invite submissions that discuss the Soccer “World Cups” as a historical, political, and aesthetic unit of analysis. How do World Cups shape a certain sense of national identity; how it is used for political purposes (as a state machine as well as resistance); what kind of artistic production surrounds them and what are their intended and non-intended meanings (from songs to advertisements to posters and poems, etc.); how are class, race, and gender relevant (or not) in all these processes.
Soccer & Society, Volume 24, 2023, Issue 3 | Nordic football: local and global impact, influences and images
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: Zlatan Ibrahimović: a monument and a mirror of his times(b> by Roger Johansson, Per-Markku Ristilammi & Helena Tolvhed (open access).
Soccer & Society, Volume 24, 2023, Issue 2
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: Exploring how education and sport are brought together in two different dual career programs for Danish soccer players: effects for the player’s current and future life by Jesper Stilling Olesen & Martin Treumer Gregersen.
Soccer & Society, Volume 24, 2023, Issue 1 | Football’s Past Revisited: Further Investigations into the Early Development of the Game
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: John Charles Thring: footballer, codifier, advocate, schoolmaster and priest by Malcolm Tozer.
Call for Papers | International Football History Conference | Hampden Park, Glasgow, June 30 – July 1, 2023. Call ends April 3, 2023
The 2023 annual International Football History Conference will take place at Hampden Park, Glasgow, G42 9BA and will be held over two days (30 June and 1 July 2023). This is a call for papers to be presented at the conference. There will be an opportunity to present on any topic relating to the history of football of all codes. Abstracts for the following presentation styles are welcomed: Short Form (7 minutes); Twenty Minutes; Panels.
Call for Participants | The growth of the League of Ireland | A one-day conference at Dalymount Park, 14th of January 2023
This one day event, a special conference on the history of the League of Ireland, will mark the publication of The League of Ireland: An Historical and Contemporary Assessment by Routledge. This has developed from a special edition of Soccer and Society published in December 2021. The conference will take place on Saturday, 14th of January 2023 from 9.30 a.m. until 4.15 p.m at Dalymount Park.
Soccer & Society, Volume 23, 2022, Issue 8 | Football, Racism(s) and Digital Media
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: Should I stay (at home) or should I go (to the stadium)? Why will some football supporters not return to the stadium after the COVID-19 pandemic in German Bundesliga? by Uwe Wilkesmann.
