Stadium Worlds

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Stadium Worlds is written by Sybille Frank and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1136949232 (ISBN 10) and 9781136949234 (ISBN 13).

Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. Four thematic sections bring together an international multi-disciplinary range of perspectives with particular focus on the stadium. Examples from architectural design, media studies and archaeology are used while studying advertising, economics, migration, fandom, local identities, emotions, gender, and the sociology of space. Texts and case-studies build up this useful book for lecturers and researchers in sociology, cultural studies, geography, architecture, sport and environment.