My last book chapter has been published this very July:
Jean-Michel Roux, Natalia R. de Melo, Cristiane R. de S. Duarte & Elson M. Pereira “The Post-Pandemic Football Stadium In 2050”.
It applies two prospective tools—dystopia and utopia—in order to imagine football stadiums and the cities around them in 2050, 30 years after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The dystopian vision leads to envisage the collapse of the current economy of sports and see the emergence of a new model divided in three distinct worlds with low permeability between each other: closed leagues cut off from the public, national championships with a highly controlled public, and clandestine tournaments in urban space other than stadiums. But since our future may also hold positive surprises, the chapter also presents a utopian scenario according to which both bottom-up social movements and top-down multilateral bodies (such as UNESCO) raise awareness of people’s rights to reclaim sport and stadiums as public utilities. In the utopian world that unfolds, stadiums are planned and managed as a common good for the populations, from their construction to their afterlife.
The text is the outlook chapter of The Political Football Stadium. Identity Discourses and Power Struggles, part of a series (Football research in an enlarged Europe) that publishes monographs and edited collections in collaboration with a major EU-funded FP7 research project ‘FREE’: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe. The series aims to establish Football Studies as a worthwhile, intellectual and pedagogical activity of academic significance and will act as a home for the burgeoning area of contemporary Football scholarship.
The book has been edited by Başak Alpan, Associate Professor in European Politics and Political Sociology (Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey), Katarzyna Herd, researcher at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences (Lund University, Sweden) and Albrecht Sonntag, Professor at the EU-Asia Institute (ESSCA School of Management, Angers, France).
As stated by the publisher, Palgrave Macmillan (Cham, Switzerland): “This book focuses on the football stadium as a political space and examines how stadiums can be viewed as the objects and catalysts of political change. Rather than acting as functional constructions designed merely to host football games, stadiums stand out in the urban landscape as landmarks that serve as gathering points for large communities.
The manifestation of the political in football stadiums can be heard in the discontent voiced by supporter activism; in the use of stadiums for national and local identity politics; in attempts to instrumentalize emotions by both totalitarian and democratic regimes; among fan groups in political uprisings, and in the surveillance of fans through e-tickets and seat allocation.
This edited collection brings together a variety of case studies from a wide range of different contexts. Contributors stem from political science, sociology, history, anthropology, human geography and urbanism. As such, the book redefines and broadens what we understand as the political dimension of the football stadium.”
Book Title: The Political Football Stadium
Book Subtitle : Identity Discourses and Power Struggles
Editors: Başak Alpan, Albrecht Sonntag, Katarzyna Herd
Series Title: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29144-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (Cham)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29143-2, published: 02 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29146-3 (due 16 July 2024)
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-29144-9, published: 01 July 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 304
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Jean-Michel Roux (7 juillet 2023). The Political Football Stadium. Au stade des villes. Consulté le 16 novembre 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/uk7z