Tag: John Konuk Blasing

Telling an important story about the development of modern Turkey, John Konuk Blasing’s Nationalism and Globalization in Turkish Football: Voices from Fan Culture (Routledge) examines the place of football in Turkish society and the relationship between Turkish sport, nationalism, and globalization. Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen finds much to enlighten him in Blasing’s well-researched, theory-driven ethnographic study. A strong contribution to the sociology of football, his book should also be read for its wider scope of cultural sociology and its impressive writing style.