Lexington Books
Pages: 160
Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-1-7936-2246-4 • Hardback • July 2020 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-7936-2247-1 • eBook • July 2020 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Roland Benedikter is research professor of multidisciplinary political analysis in residence at the Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wroclaw.
Dariusz Wojtaszyn is professor of history at Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies of the University of Wroclaw.
Chapter 1: Football and Politics in Europe: A Complex Relationship. A Very Short State of the Art
Mirjam Gruber
Chapter 2: Russia’s 2018 Football World Championship: A Case of Imaginal Politics
Roland Benedikter, Mirjam Gruber, Tomasz Sahaj, Dariusz Wojtaszyn
Chapter 3: Football Politics in Central-Eastern Europe: A Symptom of Growing Anti-Europeanism and Anti-Globalization?
Roland Benedikter, Dariusz Wojtaszyn
Chapter 4: “Identity Football” in Poland: A Driver of Tribal Politics and Re-Nationalization? Tomasz Sahaj, Dariusz Wojtaszyn
Chapter 5: Borderline Football in Historically Contested Eastern European Areas: The Case of Lviv-Lemberg, Western Ukraine
Dariusz Wojtaszyn
Chapter 6: Never Just a Game. Football National Team Matches as a Binational Rivalry Game: The Case of Romania-Hungary
Bogdan Popa
Chapter 7: Between East and West: Football in Divided Berlin
Dariusz Wojtaszyn