Forbidden Football in Ceausescu's Romania

• Main Author: Péter, László (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Global Culture and Sport Series,
• Subjects: Sports-Sociological aspects.; Ethnicity.; Political sociology.; Ethnology-Europe.; Sociology of Sport and Leisure.; Ethnicity Studies.; Political Sociology.; European Culture.

This book presents an ethnographic description and sociological interpretation of the 'football gatherings' that evolved out of central Romania in the late twentieth century. In the 1980's, Romanian public television did not broadcast football mega-events for economic and political re...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction the Ethnography and Research of Football Gatherings in Romania
• 2. Ciumani. The Sport Takes the Community to the Mountains
• 3. Bălan. Angry Men in the Night
• 4. Cluj. Big City Versions of the Football Gatherings
• 5. South-Transylvania. Further Faces of the Extended Phenomenon
• 6. The Social and Political Signifiance of Football Gatherings. Escape for Freedom
• 7. Lessons and Conclusions
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