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  • Football, Fascism and Fandom

    The UltraS of Italian Football

    by Alberto Testa, Gary Armstrong ...
    Not to be confused with the English football 'hooligan', the UltraS are the hardcore subculture of fans at the two main Rome football clubs - AS Roma and SS Lazio. With neo-fascist sympathies, these groups (the Boys at Roma and the Irriducibili at Lazio) are political and well-organised.Following years of work inside the groups and interviews with the leading figures within the organisations, Gary ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Football and Violent Extremism

    An Ethnographic Study of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Ultras

    by Alberto Testa, Massimiliano Maidano, Hadidža Borović ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This book examines the ways that nationalist leaders and extremist groups have used football to advance their often-violent ideological narratives and to recruit and radicalise young people.Drawing on applied ethnographic research with the Ultra fan groups of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), the book explores the behavioural dynamics of the BiH Ultras both on, and outside of, the football terraces. ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Corruption, Mafia Power and Italian Soccer

    by Alberto Testa, Anna Sergi ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Whilst corruption and organized crime have been widely researched, they have not yet been specifically linked to sport. Corruption, Mafia Power and Italian Soccer offers an original insight into this new research area. Adopting a psycho-social approach based mainly on Pierre Bourdieu's praxeology, the book demonstrates that corruption and the mafia presence in Italian soccer reflect the Italian ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Sport, Welfare and Social Policy in the European Union

    Edited by Stefano Martelli, Alberto Testa, Nicola Porro ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Sport is often seen as an indicator of the civic maturity of a community, an aspect of the rights of citizens to health, education and social integration. This book examines the relationships between participation in sport and physical activity, and welfare policies across Europe.It argues that the success of campaigns for the promotion of sport depend on the existence of dedicated welfare ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Sport in Islam and in Muslim Communities

    Edited by Alberto Testa, Mahfoud Amara ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    As Islam’s visibility in global society increases, Muslim populations grow, and Muslim countries compete to take up positions at the heart of global sport, the interplay between sport and Islam becomes ever more illuminating. Sport in Islam and in Muslim Communities is the first book to analyse this relationship through a pluralist lens, exploring the questions it raises about contemporary Islam, ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

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  • Sport Italia

    The Italian Love Affair with Sport

    by Dr Simon Martin ...
    The Italian love affair with sport is passionate, voracious, all-consuming. It provides a backdrop and a narrative to almost every aspect of daily life in Italy and the distinctively pink-coloured newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport is devoured by almost half a million readers every day. Narrating the history of modern Italy through its national passion for sport, Sport Italia provides a completely ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Storming Heaven

    Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism

    by Steve Wright, Riccardo Bellofiore, Massimiliano Tomba ...
    Storming Heaven is the only book which looks at Italian workerist theory and practice, from its origins in the anti-Stalinist left of the 1950s to its heyday twenty years later. It focuses on the theme of workerism, or 'operaismo', which includes the refusal of work, class self-organisation, mass illegality and the extension of revolutionary agency, of of which are still practiced today by workers ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women and the Reinvention of the Political

    Feminism in Italy, 1968-1983

    by Maud Anne Bracke ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and History
    This is the first in-depth study of the feminist movement that swept Italy during the "long 1970s" (1968-1983), and one of the first to use a combination of oral history interviews and newly-released archive sources to analyze the origins, themes, practices and impacts of "second-wave" feminism. While detailing the local and national contexts in which the movement operated, it sees this movement ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • Nationalism in Italian Politics

    The Stories of the Northern League, 1980-2000

    by Damian Tambini ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in European Politics
    This book is the first full-length study available in English to trace the extraordinary history of the Italian Northern Leagues during the 1980s and 1990s. At a time when the postwar First Republic entered a crisis amid corruption scandals, the Leagues acted as one of the main protest actors and grew at an unprecedented rate.Drawing on electoral and survey data, existing research, eyewitness ... Read more

    $72.82 CAD

  • Marketing Modernity

    Italian Advertising from Fascism to Postmodernity

    by Adam Arvidsson ...
    In Marketing Modernity, Adam Arvidsson traces the development of Italy's postmodern consumer culture from the 1920s to the present day. In so doing, Arvidsson argues that the culture of consumption we see in Italy today has its direct roots in the social vision articulated by the advertising industry in the years following the First World War. He then goes on to discuss how that vision was further ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Calcio

    A History of Italian Football

    by John Foot ...
    The first history of Italian football to be written in English, ‘Calcio’ is a mix of serious analysis and comic storytelling, with vivid descriptions of games, goals, dives, missed penalties, riots and scandals in the richest and toughest league in the world.‘Calcio’ tells the story of Italian football from its origins in the 1890’s to the present day. It takes us through a history of great ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • We Need To Talk About Xi

    What we need to know about the world’s most powerful leader

    by Michael Dillon ...
    Meet the most powerful leader in the world.Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our television screens and news headlines on a regular basis. But even after a decade in power, he remains shrouded in mystery.From growing up with a father purged in Mao's Cultural Revolution and his mission to eradicate poverty, to his persecution of Uyghur Muslims and paranoia about being likened to Winnie-the-Pooh, Xi ... Read more

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