Sport and Crime: Towards a Critical Criminology of Sport, 2022
Sport, Crime, Criminology, Sociology
This is an advanced draft copy of the book '• Millward, P.,... more Sport, Crime, Criminology, Sociology
This is an advanced draft copy of the book '• Millward, P., Ludvigsen, J.A. and Sly, J.M. (2022) Sport and Crime: Towards a Critical Criminology of Sport. Routledge: Abingdon'. It is pre-copy-edit and not the final version published by Routledge.
This book draws upon a relational sociological paradigm to explore the processes of collective ac... more This book draws upon a relational sociological paradigm to explore the processes of collective action in football fandom across Europe and the UK. Through a range of case studies, the authors address pertinent themes in football fandom, including anti-discrimination, ‘home,’ ticketing, name changes, ‘ownership,’ and broader leftist politics. Each of these case studies engages with the theoretical framework of cultural relational sociology, highlighting the different social and cultural changes English and European football has undergone, often over a very short period of time
This chapter lays down seven analytical touchstones to understand the collective actions of footb... more This chapter lays down seven analytical touchstones to understand the collective actions of football fans that can be gathered from the published literature in both the sociology of social movements and the sociology of sport. These analytical touchstones are (i) the structures of and roles in collective action; (ii) affect, emotion, and collective effervescence; (iii) communication, cooperation, and conventions; (iv) mobilizing resources; (v) tactics; (vi) recruitment to collective action and ‘outcomes’ of mobilization; and (vii) the spaces and places of organization and action. Each is relationally defined and discussed.
Despite the localized aspects of football fandom, many fan groups will speak with fans of rival c... more Despite the localized aspects of football fandom, many fan groups will speak with fans of rival clubs in order to share ideas and mobilize around common issues affecting fans of all clubs. This cooperation has begun to occur across Europe. The formation of Football Supporters Europe facilitates this cooperation by providing a wide network for fans from many different countries. More importantly, FSE organizes face-to-face events that physically bring fans together to share ideas and build crucial relationships outside of existing local and national fan organizations.
cases when data in Goodwin and Milazzo (2015) are examined (Boston, Lincolnshire, is the sole exa... more cases when data in Goodwin and Milazzo (2015) are examined (Boston, Lincolnshire, is the sole example given by Eatwell and Goodwin). I am left wondering why so much explanatory importance is attached to immigration here – in contrast, for example, with Goodwin and Heath’s (2016) ‘Brexit vote explained: Poverty, low skills and lack of opportunities’. In conclusion, Eatwell and Goodwin raise important issues, and the long-term trends are clearly salient; but I question how far their sympathetic view of national populism is guided by evidence-based reasoning, vis-a-vis distaste for liberal-left values. Nor is this an intellectual outlier: witness, for example, Eric Kaufmann’s (2018) Whiteshift, and ongoing attempts in the journal Spiked (to which both Kaufmann and Goodwin have contributed) to discredit liberal ‘identitarianism’ and diversity politics. Published (like Whiteshift) under a non-academic imprint, National Populism feels like a contribution to the building of a ‘contrarian’ ...
This chapter centrally unpicks the uses and descriptions of ‘relational sociology’, ‘collective a... more This chapter centrally unpicks the uses and descriptions of ‘relational sociology’, ‘collective action’, and ‘football fandom’ in the social scientific literature. In doing so, it lays down the foundations for the concepts and dynamics (these are (i) relations/relationships, (ii) interaction, (iii) networks, (iv) social actors, and (v) power/counter-power) that are core to cultural relational sociology and discusses them up in a way that can be applied to issues emerging in the study of both collective action and football fandom.
This is a short research note prepared by Dr Dan Parnell and Dr Peter Millward, of ConnectSport, ... more This is a short research note prepared by Dr Dan Parnell and Dr Peter Millward, of ConnectSport, which offers an insight into a recent special issue on sport management in an era of austerity, published in the European Sport Management Quarterly journal.
This chapter shows how football supporters are embedded in social networks and how these networks... more This chapter shows how football supporters are embedded in social networks and how these networks are mobilized for a protest movement against economic elements of football. The chapter starts by highlighting that the neo-classical economic assumptions of rationality and perfect competition are problematic in the football marketplace, especially as the chapter goes on to show how supporters are socially embedded in social networks. From there, Twitter networks of two prominent fan movements against economic factors in football were analysed. The results show that these online network structures created by supporters were structured through weak ties and short information paths, which were central network mechanisms to facilitate efficient communication and resistance.
Non-league football fandom has become a key site of social activism in recent years. This chapter... more Non-league football fandom has become a key site of social activism in recent years. This chapter provides an ethnographic account of fans of two clubs—Dulwich Hamlet and Whitehawk—whose fans organize various political campaigns through their club. They see each other in friendly terms and regularly interact to share ideas and celebrate their particular style of fandom. Over time, personal relationships form that encourage further dialogue and support.
Sport and Crime: Towards a Critical Criminology of Sport, 2022
Sport, Crime, Criminology, Sociology
This is an advanced draft copy of the book '• Millward, P.,... more Sport, Crime, Criminology, Sociology
This is an advanced draft copy of the book '• Millward, P., Ludvigsen, J.A. and Sly, J.M. (2022) Sport and Crime: Towards a Critical Criminology of Sport. Routledge: Abingdon'. It is pre-copy-edit and not the final version published by Routledge.
This book draws upon a relational sociological paradigm to explore the processes of collective ac... more This book draws upon a relational sociological paradigm to explore the processes of collective action in football fandom across Europe and the UK. Through a range of case studies, the authors address pertinent themes in football fandom, including anti-discrimination, ‘home,’ ticketing, name changes, ‘ownership,’ and broader leftist politics. Each of these case studies engages with the theoretical framework of cultural relational sociology, highlighting the different social and cultural changes English and European football has undergone, often over a very short period of time
This chapter lays down seven analytical touchstones to understand the collective actions of footb... more This chapter lays down seven analytical touchstones to understand the collective actions of football fans that can be gathered from the published literature in both the sociology of social movements and the sociology of sport. These analytical touchstones are (i) the structures of and roles in collective action; (ii) affect, emotion, and collective effervescence; (iii) communication, cooperation, and conventions; (iv) mobilizing resources; (v) tactics; (vi) recruitment to collective action and ‘outcomes’ of mobilization; and (vii) the spaces and places of organization and action. Each is relationally defined and discussed.
Despite the localized aspects of football fandom, many fan groups will speak with fans of rival c... more Despite the localized aspects of football fandom, many fan groups will speak with fans of rival clubs in order to share ideas and mobilize around common issues affecting fans of all clubs. This cooperation has begun to occur across Europe. The formation of Football Supporters Europe facilitates this cooperation by providing a wide network for fans from many different countries. More importantly, FSE organizes face-to-face events that physically bring fans together to share ideas and build crucial relationships outside of existing local and national fan organizations.
cases when data in Goodwin and Milazzo (2015) are examined (Boston, Lincolnshire, is the sole exa... more cases when data in Goodwin and Milazzo (2015) are examined (Boston, Lincolnshire, is the sole example given by Eatwell and Goodwin). I am left wondering why so much explanatory importance is attached to immigration here – in contrast, for example, with Goodwin and Heath’s (2016) ‘Brexit vote explained: Poverty, low skills and lack of opportunities’. In conclusion, Eatwell and Goodwin raise important issues, and the long-term trends are clearly salient; but I question how far their sympathetic view of national populism is guided by evidence-based reasoning, vis-a-vis distaste for liberal-left values. Nor is this an intellectual outlier: witness, for example, Eric Kaufmann’s (2018) Whiteshift, and ongoing attempts in the journal Spiked (to which both Kaufmann and Goodwin have contributed) to discredit liberal ‘identitarianism’ and diversity politics. Published (like Whiteshift) under a non-academic imprint, National Populism feels like a contribution to the building of a ‘contrarian’ ...
This chapter centrally unpicks the uses and descriptions of ‘relational sociology’, ‘collective a... more This chapter centrally unpicks the uses and descriptions of ‘relational sociology’, ‘collective action’, and ‘football fandom’ in the social scientific literature. In doing so, it lays down the foundations for the concepts and dynamics (these are (i) relations/relationships, (ii) interaction, (iii) networks, (iv) social actors, and (v) power/counter-power) that are core to cultural relational sociology and discusses them up in a way that can be applied to issues emerging in the study of both collective action and football fandom.
This is a short research note prepared by Dr Dan Parnell and Dr Peter Millward, of ConnectSport, ... more This is a short research note prepared by Dr Dan Parnell and Dr Peter Millward, of ConnectSport, which offers an insight into a recent special issue on sport management in an era of austerity, published in the European Sport Management Quarterly journal.
This chapter shows how football supporters are embedded in social networks and how these networks... more This chapter shows how football supporters are embedded in social networks and how these networks are mobilized for a protest movement against economic elements of football. The chapter starts by highlighting that the neo-classical economic assumptions of rationality and perfect competition are problematic in the football marketplace, especially as the chapter goes on to show how supporters are socially embedded in social networks. From there, Twitter networks of two prominent fan movements against economic factors in football were analysed. The results show that these online network structures created by supporters were structured through weak ties and short information paths, which were central network mechanisms to facilitate efficient communication and resistance.
Non-league football fandom has become a key site of social activism in recent years. This chapter... more Non-league football fandom has become a key site of social activism in recent years. This chapter provides an ethnographic account of fans of two clubs—Dulwich Hamlet and Whitehawk—whose fans organize various political campaigns through their club. They see each other in friendly terms and regularly interact to share ideas and celebrate their particular style of fandom. Over time, personal relationships form that encourage further dialogue and support.
Recent debates in sociology consider how Internet communications might catalyse leaderless, open-... more Recent debates in sociology consider how Internet communications might catalyse leaderless, open-ended, affective social movements that broaden support and bypass traditional institutional channels to create change. We extend this work into the field of leisure and lifestyle politics with an empirical study of Internet-mediated protest movement, Stand Against Modern Football. We explain how social media facilitate communications that transcend longstanding rivalries, and engender shared affective frames that unite diverse groups against corporate logics. In examining grassroots organisation, communication and protest actions that span online and urban locations, we discover sustained interconnectedness with traditional social movements, political parties, the media and the corporate targets of protests. Finally, we suggest that Internet-based social movements establish stable forms of organisation and leadership at these networked intersections in order to advance instrumental progr...
This article explores the relational power and responsibilities to migrant workers on physical in... more This article explores the relational power and responsibilities to migrant workers on physical infrastructure projects in Qatar connected to the sovereign state hosting the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup 2022. Currently, these construction workers operate under the Kafala system, which is upheld in Qatar. However, large numbers of Qatar’s visiting migrant construction workers were recorded as injured or killed through incidents that were related to their work. Further still, many other migrant workers reported poor, unsanitary living conditions and being ‘trapped’ by their Kafil with passports withheld or wages not forthcoming, prompting criticism from international non-governmental organizations. This article adopts a relational sociological approach to discuss how ‘responsibilities’ for deaths, injuries and illnesses are passed between key actors that include the State of Qatar, FIFA, World Cup sponsors, building contractors and sub-contractors,...
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This is an advanced draft copy of the book '• Millward, P., Ludvigsen, J.A. and Sly, J.M. (2022) Sport and Crime: Towards a Critical Criminology of Sport. Routledge: Abingdon'. It is pre-copy-edit and not the final version published by Routledge.
I have found a finalised version of the book at: https://bibis.ir/chosen-books/sport/2022/Sport%20and%20Crime%20Towards%20a%20Critical%20Criminology%20of%20Sport_bibis.ir.pdf. I did not upload this finalised version.
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This is an advanced draft copy of the book '• Millward, P., Ludvigsen, J.A. and Sly, J.M. (2022) Sport and Crime: Towards a Critical Criminology of Sport. Routledge: Abingdon'. It is pre-copy-edit and not the final version published by Routledge.
I have found a finalised version of the book at: https://bibis.ir/chosen-books/sport/2022/Sport%20and%20Crime%20Towards%20a%20Critical%20Criminology%20of%20Sport_bibis.ir.pdf. I did not upload this finalised version.
If you like the book and are an academic, please consider ordering copies for your university library.