The UEFA European football championship was the first European mega-event to take place in post-socialist Europe. Taking this as a departure point, this volume focuses on football as a realm of constructing and negotiating identities using rich ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth media analysis.

Autorentext
Nina Szogs, University of Vienna, Austria Ozgehan Senyuva, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Yagmur Nuhrat, Kadir Has University, Turkey Micha? Buchowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland Ma?gorzata Zofia Kowalska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Negotiating Europeanness: The Euro2012 Championship And Spectator Narratives In An Enlarged European Perspective; Basak Alpan And Alexandra Schwell 2. 'Offside. Or Not Quite: EURO 2012 As A Focal Point Of Identity And Alterity'; Alexandra Schwell 3. 'Loyalty Jungle: Flexible Football Fan Identities In The Framework Of Euro2012'; Nina Szogs 4. 'Does Qualifying Really Qualify? Comparing The Representations Of Euro 2008 And Euro2012 In The Turkish Media'; Basak Alpan And Ozgehan Senyuva 5. 'Up To The Expectations? Perceptions Of Ethnic Diversity In The French And German National Team'; Albrecht Sonntag 6. 'Mediating Turkishness Through Language In Transnational Football; Yagmur Nuhrat 7. 'Doing Ethnography And Writing Anthropology: A Single-Site-Multiple-Ethnography Of A Protest Event Against The 2012 UEFA European Championship In Poznan'; Michal Buchowski And Malgorzata Zofia Kowalska 8. Afterword; Albrecht Sonntag