The Safe Standing Movement in Football

Auteur

Mark Turner is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Texte du rabat

This book tells the important story of the 30-year social movement against all-seated stadia in football in England and Wales that developed in the wake of the Hillsborough stadium disaster and the wider European and international significance of that movement.

Contenu

PART I

Theoretical and historical frameworks

1 The ritual of watching football: an introduction

2 Relational sociology and temporality: theorising social movements as networks

PART II

The origins of contemporary supporter movements in football

3 The neoliberal timescape of English and European football

PART III

A social movement analysis of Safe Standing

4 The moral shock and networking a coalition of football supporters: 1985-99

5 The emergence of Rail Seating: 1999-2009

6 Building diplomacy and breaking down the state: 2009-23

A critical juncture for the future of football

7 Safe Standing and the new regulatory regime of English and European football: the victory paradox