{"product_id":"9783030745349-football-fans-and-social-spacing","title":"Football Fans and Social Spacing","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePower and Control in a Modernising Landscape. liquid modernity and the post-1989 transformation of English football,  are managed via the distinct and oft-competing processes of social spacing in  football. This book is about the relationship between leisure and power. More specifically, it theorizes a group of supporters’ attempts to control social space within and around English football stadiums. Not only is football a popular leisure form, it is also one which has undergone a remarkable process of transformation during the last 30 years. Advance surveillance techniques, all seater-stadia, rising ticket prices,  and a growing intolerance to expressive modes of fandom have all transformed the experience of watching the professional game.\u003cbr\u003eThrough these five chapters, Ian Woolsey asks how the collective responses of  travelling football supporters to these major societal currents and changes within  the game; liquid modernity and the post-1989 transformation of English football,  are managed via the distinct and oft-competing processes of social spacing in  football. An important inspiration for the book is the work of Zygmunt Bauman,  particularly his ideas on cognitive, aesthetic, and moral ‘spacings’ as a social  production. Ian Woolsey’s powerful and persuasive application of these ideas not  only extends Bauman’s focus on the ‘politics’ of power in public space to include  a consideration of leisure but in so doing shows that ethnography, selectively  conducted and theoretically informed, can provide data for a rich, sociological  account of a football world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book will be of interest to researchers and scholars of sociology of leisure,  sociology of sport, criminology, and cultural studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40138944774241,"sku":"9783030745349","price":112.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/a806003bc5e3648a931aeff681e31dcd.jpg?v=1657075200","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9783030745349-football-fans-and-social-spacing","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}