Football, Power, and Politics in Europe

​Timm Beichelt is Professor of European Studies at European University Viadrina, Germany.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Football as a symbolic space of possibilities.- Chapter 2. Subjects in the field of football: Preference formation in the pre-political space.- Chapter 3. Politics beyond political institutions: Football as an organizational field.- Chapter  4. On the dependence of politics and public on the commercial sphere: Public welfare orientation of football on trial.- Chapter  5. Community Formation in the Context of Hyperliberalization: An Inherent Contradiction?.- Chapter 6. International Football Politics: In Fatal Proximity to Autocratic Regimes and Practices.- Chapter 7. Football, Economy and Politics in Russia.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Football as Selective Homeland.- Chapter 9. Bibliography.