Tim Crabbe – författare

The everyday makeup of contemporary sport is increasingly characterised by a perceived explosion of ''deviance'' - violence, drug taking, racism, homophobia, misogyny, corruption and excess. Whereas once these behaviours may have been subject to the moral judgments of authority, in the face of dramatic socio-cultural change they become more a matter of populist consumer gaze.

In addressing these developments this book provides a new and insightful approach toward the study of ''deviance'' in the realm of sport.

New Perspectives in Sport and ''Deviance'' awakens the sociology of sport to the possibilities of re-imagining ''deviance'' and offers an evocative approach which will appeal both to academics and students in the field of sociology of sport and sociology of deviance.

The everyday makeup of contemporary sport is increasingly characterised by a perceived explosion of ''deviance'' - violence, drug taking, racism, homophobia, misogyny, corruption and excess. Whereas once these behaviours may have been subject to the moral judgments of authority, in the face of dramatic socio-cultural change they become more a matter of populist consumer gaze.

In addressing these developments this book provides a new and insightful approach toward the study of ''deviance'' in the realm of sport.

New Perspectives in Sport and ''Deviance'' awakens the sociology of sport to the possibilities of re-imagining ''deviance'' and offers an evocative approach which will appeal both to academics and students in the field of sociology of sport and sociology of deviance.

Football clubs across the world continue to embody many of the collective symbols, identifications and processes of connectivity which have long been associated with the notion of ‘community’. In recent years, however, the very term ‘community’ has become the focus of renewed interest within popular discourse and amongst academics, politicians and policy makers. It has become something of a ‘buzz’ word, wheeled out as both a lament to more certain times and as an appeal to a better future: a term imbued with all the richness associated with human interaction.

‘Community’ has also been employed increasingly within football, for instrumental reasons concerned with policy and stadium redevelopment, and in broader rhetoric about clubs, their localities and fans.

This book brings together a range of key debates around contemporary understandings of ‘community’ in world football. Split into four sections, it considers

This book was published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.

Football clubs across the world continue to embody many of the collective symbols, identifications and processes of connectivity which have long been associated with the notion of ‘community’. In recent years, however, the very term ‘community’ has become the focus of renewed interest within popular discourse and amongst academics, politicians and policy makers. It has become something of a ‘buzz’ word, wheeled out as both a lament to more certain times and as an appeal to a better future: a term imbued with all the richness associated with human interaction.

‘Community’ has also been employed increasingly within football, for instrumental reasons concerned with policy and stadium redevelopment, and in broader rhetoric about clubs, their localities and fans.

This book brings together a range of key debates around contemporary understandings of ‘community’ in world football. Split into four sections, it considers

This book was published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.