Forbidden football in Ceausescu's Romania
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Forbidden football in Ceausescu's Romania
（Global culture and sport / series editors Stephen Wagg and David Andrews）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book presents an ethnographic description and sociological interpretation of the 'football gatherings' that evolved out of central Romania in the late twentieth century. In the 1980's, Romanian public television did not broadcast football mega-events for economic and political reasons. In response, masses of people would leave their homes and travel into the mountains to pick-up the TV broadcast from neighbouring countries. The phenomenon grew into a social institution with a penetrating force: it produced an alternative social space and a dissident public that pointed to a form of resistance taking place through football.
Forbidden Football in Ceausescu's Romania provides an insight into the everyday life under the pressure of dictatorship and, through the special patterns of sports consumption, it tells a social history through small individual stories related to football.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction the Ethnography and Research of Football Gatherings in Romania .- 2. Ciumani. The Sport Takes the Community to the Mountains .- 3. Balan. Angry Men in the Night .- 4. Cluj. Big City Versions of the Football Gatherings .- 5. South-Transylvania. Further Faces of the Extended Phenomenon .- 6. The Social and Political Signifiance of Football Gatherings. Escape for Freedom .- 7. Lessons and Conclusions .-
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