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'Mercenaries', 'cheats', 'destroying the soul of (English) football', 'destroying the link between football clubs and their supporters': foreign football players have been accused of being at the origin of all the ills of contemporary football. How true is this? Foreign players and football supporters: The Old Firm, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain is the first academic book to look at supporters' reactions to the increase in the number of foreign players in the very clubs they support week in week out. It shows that football supporters identify with their club through a variety of means, which may change or be replaced with others, and provides the most comprehensive view on football supporters' attachment to their club in the European Union, following the increase in European legislation. Divided into three case studies on Glasgow (Celtic and Rangers), Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal in London, the book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to chart the evolution of the link between supporters and club between 1995 and today. It is based on extensive research through the press of three nations, as well as interviews with officials and supporters. It provides an excellent read for students and researchers in Sports Studies, Politics, European Studies, French Studies and other Social Sciences, or to anyone interested in one of the most original institutions of contemporary western societies: mass spectator sports.
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On October 14th, the game between Albania & Serbia in Belgrade had to be stopped shortly before h... more On October 14th, the game between Albania & Serbia in Belgrade had to be stopped shortly before half-time. A drone was flown over the stadium. It carried a flag which has been widely reported as…
Invented in the inter-war period by French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs (Halbwachs, 1925 and 195... more Invented in the inter-war period by French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs (Halbwachs, 1925 and 1950), the notion of collective memory (memoire collective) surmises that the act of remembering is never entirely solitary and that, instead, even personal memories are shaped by the values and norms of a collective, expressed both in what that collective has decided to remember or forget and in the ways that items are remembered (or, conversely, forgotten). The notion was soon taken up by historians. In Jacques Le Goff’s groundbreaking La Nouvelle Histoire (1978), Pierre Nora’s chapter considered the contribution that an analysis of a collective group’s memory could make to cultural history. This is the same Pierre Nora who initiated and directed a gigantic study on the cultural collective memory of a quintessentially political object France, Les lieux de memoire (Nora, 1984–1992), published over eight years in three volumes (La Republique, La Nation and Les Frances) between 1984 and 1992. Though criticised by Henry Rousso for its vagueness (Rousso, 1987), the notion of lieu de memoire can be construed as any item (material or immaterial) which has been saved from oblivion by a collective, especially local or national, and which has also been invested with values (in a broad sense) that still make sense in the contemporary context. A lieu de memoire is the consequence of the existence of a collective memory.
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'Mercenaries', 'cheats', 'destroying the soul of (English) football', 'destroying ... more ""Description
'Mercenaries', 'cheats', 'destroying the soul of (English) football', 'destroying the link between football clubs and their supporters': foreign football players have been accused of being at the origin of all the ills of contemporary football. How true is this? Foreign players and football supporters: The Old Firm, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain is the first academic book to look at supporters' reactions to the increase in the number of foreign players in the very clubs they support week in week out. It shows that football supporters identify with their club through a variety of means, which may change or be replaced with others, and provides the most comprehensive view on football supporters' attachment to their club in the European Union, following the increase in European legislation. Divided into three case studies on Glasgow (Celtic and Rangers), Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal in London, the book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to chart the evolution of the link between supporters and club between 1995 and today. It is based on extensive research through the press of three nations, as well as interviews with officials and supporters. It provides an excellent read for students and researchers in Sports Studies, Politics, European Studies, French Studies and other Social Sciences, or to anyone interested in one of the most original institutions of contemporary western societies: mass spectator sports.
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On October 14th, the game between Albania & Serbia in Belgrade had to be stopped shortly before h... more On October 14th, the game between Albania & Serbia in Belgrade had to be stopped shortly before half-time. A drone was flown over the stadium. It carried a flag which has been widely reported as…
Invented in the inter-war period by French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs (Halbwachs, 1925 and 195... more Invented in the inter-war period by French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs (Halbwachs, 1925 and 1950), the notion of collective memory (memoire collective) surmises that the act of remembering is never entirely solitary and that, instead, even personal memories are shaped by the values and norms of a collective, expressed both in what that collective has decided to remember or forget and in the ways that items are remembered (or, conversely, forgotten). The notion was soon taken up by historians. In Jacques Le Goff’s groundbreaking La Nouvelle Histoire (1978), Pierre Nora’s chapter considered the contribution that an analysis of a collective group’s memory could make to cultural history. This is the same Pierre Nora who initiated and directed a gigantic study on the cultural collective memory of a quintessentially political object France, Les lieux de memoire (Nora, 1984–1992), published over eight years in three volumes (La Republique, La Nation and Les Frances) between 1984 and 1992. Though criticised by Henry Rousso for its vagueness (Rousso, 1987), the notion of lieu de memoire can be construed as any item (material or immaterial) which has been saved from oblivion by a collective, especially local or national, and which has also been invested with values (in a broad sense) that still make sense in the contemporary context. A lieu de memoire is the consequence of the existence of a collective memory.
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'Mercenaries', 'cheats', 'destroying the soul of (English) football', 'destroying the link between football clubs and their supporters': foreign football players have been accused of being at the origin of all the ills of contemporary football. How true is this? Foreign players and football supporters: The Old Firm, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain is the first academic book to look at supporters' reactions to the increase in the number of foreign players in the very clubs they support week in week out. It shows that football supporters identify with their club through a variety of means, which may change or be replaced with others, and provides the most comprehensive view on football supporters' attachment to their club in the European Union, following the increase in European legislation. Divided into three case studies on Glasgow (Celtic and Rangers), Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal in London, the book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to chart the evolution of the link between supporters and club between 1995 and today. It is based on extensive research through the press of three nations, as well as interviews with officials and supporters. It provides an excellent read for students and researchers in Sports Studies, Politics, European Studies, French Studies and other Social Sciences, or to anyone interested in one of the most original institutions of contemporary western societies: mass spectator sports.
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Papers by David Ranc
'Mercenaries', 'cheats', 'destroying the soul of (English) football', 'destroying the link between football clubs and their supporters': foreign football players have been accused of being at the origin of all the ills of contemporary football. How true is this? Foreign players and football supporters: The Old Firm, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain is the first academic book to look at supporters' reactions to the increase in the number of foreign players in the very clubs they support week in week out. It shows that football supporters identify with their club through a variety of means, which may change or be replaced with others, and provides the most comprehensive view on football supporters' attachment to their club in the European Union, following the increase in European legislation. Divided into three case studies on Glasgow (Celtic and Rangers), Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal in London, the book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to chart the evolution of the link between supporters and club between 1995 and today. It is based on extensive research through the press of three nations, as well as interviews with officials and supporters. It provides an excellent read for students and researchers in Sports Studies, Politics, European Studies, French Studies and other Social Sciences, or to anyone interested in one of the most original institutions of contemporary western societies: mass spectator sports.
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