Forbidden Football in Ceausescu’s Romania

By:

Laszlo Peter

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Hardback

Series:

Global Culture and Sport Series

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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 reasons. In response, masses of people would leave their homes and travel into the mountains to pick-up the TV broadcast from neighbouring countries. The phenomenon grew into a social institution with a penetrating force: it produced an alternative social space and a dissident public that pointed to a form of resistance taking place through football. Forbidden Football in Ceausescu’s Romania provides an insight into the everyday life under the pressure of dictatorship and, through the special patterns of sports consumption, it tells a social history through small individual stories related to football.

Author Biography:

László Péter is Associate Professor at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj. His areas of research include the sociology of sport and social problems.

Release date NZ

February 20th, 2018

Author

Laszlo Peter

Audience

Undergraduate

Edition

1st ed. 2018

Illustrations

33 Illustrations, color; X, 162 p. 33 illus. in color.

Pages

162

Series

Global Culture and Sport Series

ISBN-13

9783319707082

Product ID

27223740

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