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Geoff Pearson - An Ethnography of English Football Fans: Cans, Cops and Carnivals - 9780719087219 - V9780719087219
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An Ethnography of English Football Fans: Cans, Cops and Carnivals

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Description for An Ethnography of English Football Fans: Cans, Cops and Carnivals Hardback. Ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years' participant observation. Series: New Ethnographies. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; JHBS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.

This book is an ethnographic account of English football fans, based upon sixteen years' of participant observation. The author identifies a distinct sub-culture of supporter – the ‘carnival fan’ – who dominated the travelling support of the three teams observed - Manchester United, Blackpool and the England National Team. This accessible account follows these groups home and abroad, describing their interpretations, motivations and behaviour and challenging a number of the myths about ‘hooliganism’ and crowd control.

The text will be of value to anyone studying, researching or interested in ethnographic modes of enquiry or the behaviour of football ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Series
New Ethnographies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719087219
SKU
V9780719087219
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Geoff Pearson
Geoff Pearson is Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool’s Management School -- .

Reviews for An Ethnography of English Football Fans: Cans, Cops and Carnivals
"...Pearson has provided us with a much needed fresh perspective on football fan research. It should become a leading text in the field. There are three excellent participation observation studies presented here, all conducted by the author, from a period of fifteen years of fieldwork." "The book is outstanding." "It is a subtle, engaging account of the interaction ... Read more

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