New Ethnographies of Football in Europe

Exploring how football impacts on people's everyday lives, this volume uses anthropological research methods to scrutinize the social fields of football fans and the specific socio-cultural contexts in which they are embedded, taking into account processes of Europeanization, globalization, commercialization and migration.

Alexandra Schwell is an Assistant Professor at the Department of European Ethnology, University of Vienna, Austria. She is part of the FREE project consortium and is sub-project leader for 'Doing World Heritage', funded within the Sparkling Science Programme of the Austrian Ministry of Science, Research, and Economy. Nina Szogs is a researcher at University of Vienna, Austria and Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany and is part of the interdisciplinary European project FREE: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe (FP7). Her research focuses on intersectionality, gender and migration.  Ma?gorzata Kowalska is a Researcher at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. As part of the Football Research in an Enlarged Europe project, she conducted ethnographic research on the legacy of Euro 2012 and her research interests include hegemonic business discourses and strategies, and the anthropology of political economies. Michal Buchowski is a Professor and Chair of Social Anthropology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland and at European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/O, Germany. His interests focus on the anthropology of postsocialism, migration, multiculturalism, and football and his publications include Polish Ethnology (2012) and a co-edited volume entitled Colloquia Anthropologica (2014).