African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives [electronic resource] : The Legacy of the FIFA 2010 World Cup /
Chari, Tendai.author.
Mhiripiri, Nhamo A.author.
This edited volume addresses key debates around African football, identity construction, fan cultures, and both African and global media narratives. Using the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa as a lens, it explores how football in Africa is intimately bound up with deeper social, cultural and political currents.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Towards an Epistemology of African Football - The Symbolic Significance of the 2010 FIFA World Cup; Part I: FIFA 2010 World Cup and Identity Construction; 1 Nation-Building and the FIFA World Cup, South Africa 2010; 2 To the Cape and Back: Football Tourism, Narratives of South Africa and the FIFA 2010 World Cup; 3 The 2010 World Cup Celebrations in a Non-hosting Location: Voices from the Periphery
4 South Africa FIFA World Cup 2010: African Players' Global Labour Distribution and LegacyPart II: African Fan Cultures; 5 New-found Football Fans; 6 Zimbabwean Female Audiences: Negotiating (En)Gendered Spaces in the 2010 FIFA World Cup; 7 Noisemaker or Cultural Symbol: The Vuvuzela Controversy and Expressions of Football Fandom; Part III: African Media Narratives; 8 Nigeria: Media Narratives and Reports of Football from Within; 9 Unmaking the Dark Continent: South Africa, Africa and the Image Make-Over Narrative in the South African Press
10 Imploding or Perpetuating African Myths through Reporting South Africa 2010 World Cup Stories on Business OpportunitiesPart IV: Global Media Narratives; 11 The Football World Cup 2010 in the German Media: Presenting and Constructing a Major Sporting Event; 12 A Unique Period? An Analysis of the Coverage of Africa during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Selected Western Media; 13 Of Sunsets, Savagery and Soccer: Framing Africa during the Final Days of the 2010 World Cup; 14 Afro-pessimism in the French and British Press Coverage of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This edited volume addresses key debates around African football, identity construction, fan cultures, and both African and global media narratives. Using the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa as a lens, it explores how football in Africa is intimately bound up with deeper social, cultural and political currents.
World Cup (Soccer) 2010 : South Africa)
Culture.
Ethnology-Africa.
Sociology.
Sports-Sociological aspects.
Communication.
Cultural studies.
Sociology of Culture.
African Culture.
Sociology, general.
Sociology of Sport and Leisure.
Media Studies.
Cultural Studies.