Consuming sport: fans, sport and culture

Crawford, G ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7499-3864 2004, Consuming sport: fans, sport and culture , Routledge Taylor & Francis.

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Abstract

Consuming Sport offers a detailed consideration of how sport is experienced and engaged with in the everyday lives, social networks and consumer patterns of its followers. It examines the processes of becoming a sport fan, and the social and moral career that supporters follow as their involvement develops over a life-course. The book argues that while for many people sport matters, for many more, it does not. Though for some sport is significant in shaping their social and cultural identity, it is often consumed and experienced by others in quite mundane and everyday ways, through the media images that surround us, conversations overheard and in the clothing of people we pass by. As well as developing a new theory of sport fandom the book links this discussion to wider debates on audiences, fan cultures and consumer practices. The text argues that for far too long consideration of sport fans has focused on exceptional forms of support ignoring the myriad of ways in which sport can be experienced and consumed in everyday life.

Item Type:	Book
Themes:	Subjects / Themes > G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV0557 Sports Subjects / Themes > H Social Sciences > HM Sociology Subjects outside of the University Themes
Schools:	Schools > School of Health and Society Schools > School of Health and Society > Centre for Applied Research in Health, Welfare and Policy
Publisher:	Routledge Taylor & Francis
Refereed:	Yes
ISBN:	9780415288903
Depositing User:	H Kenna
Date Deposited:	30 Jan 2009 15:47
Last Modified:	27 Aug 2021 22:06
URI:	https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/1449

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