Lower League Football in Crisis Issues of Organisation and Legitimacy in England and Germany
While the field of football studies has produced an abundance of literature on professional, top-league football, there is little research output to do with the non-top level football. This book explores the relationship between the top and lower leagues, laying open the drastic schisms that exist b...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2020, 2020
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020 |
| Series: | Football Research in an Enlarged Europe
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Football Clubs, Community and Legitimacy
- Chapter 2. Setting the Scene: Structural Differences and Theoretical Considerations
- Part I: A Threefold Dilemma of Legitimacy. Chapter 3. Economic Crisis: Number Games
- Chapter 4. Cultural Crisis: The Great Divide
- Chapter 5. Social Crisis: Building Bridges
- Part II: Ways of the Crises. Chapter 6. Case Studies from England and Germany
- Chapter 7. Economic Coping Mechanisms: Professionalisation, or: Creating Sustainable Structures
- Chapter 8. Cultural Coping Mechanisms: Communitisation, or: (Re-)Engaging with Communities
- Chapter 9. Social Coping Mechanisms: Societisation, or: Improving Credibility as Social Institutions
- Chapter 10. One Size Does Not Fit All: Comparison and Results
- Chapter 11. Conclusion: Towards Hybrid Organisations and Supermodern Football