Stadium Worlds Football, Space and the Built Environment Architext Series

Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. Four thematic sections bring together an international multi-disciplinary range of perspectives with particular focus on the stadium.

Examples from architectural design, media studies and archaeology are used while studying advertising, economics, migration, fandom, local identities, emotions, gender, and the sociology of space. Texts and case-studies build up this useful book for lecturers and researchers in sociology, cultural studies, geography, architecture, sport and environment.

Introduction: Football, Space and the Built EnvironmentPart 1: The Politics of Representation and Design 1. The New European Stadium2. "Show Yourself to the People!": Ancient Stadia, Politics and Society 3. Challenging the Stadium: Watching Sport Events in PublicPart 2: Architecture and Media 4. The Stadium as a Cash Machine 5. The Mirror Stage in the Stadium: Media Spaces of Television and Architecture 6. Killing Sports Fields: The Amahora Stadium Complex in Kigali, Rwanda Part 3: When Global Flows Meet Local Cultures 7. Global Players and the Stadium: Migration and Borders in Professional Football 8. Going to the Match: The Transformation of the Match-Day Routine at Manchester City FC 9. "Come Home": The Stadium, Locality and the Community at FC United of Manchester Part 4: Gender and Space 10. Sport, Football and Masculine Identity: The Stadium as a Window onto Gender Construction11. Producting Gender-Normative Spaces in U.S. Women's Professional Soccer12. Football Under Cover in Tehran's Ararat StadiumPart 5: Emotions and the Body 13. Emotions in Sports Stadia14. Heroes, Myths and Magic Moments: Religious Elements on the Sacred Ground 15. ‘Beckhamania’: Promoting Post-modern Celebrities Beyond the Stadium 16. Conclusion: The Stadium – Lense and Refuge

Sybille Frank and Silke Steets are sociologists working at the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany