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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Academies of hatredA series of public events in Wrocław, Poland’s European Capital of Culture in 2016, have been disrupted by radicals....
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Proud to be German? Football and the fear of nationalismThough some fans are enthusiastic, even proud of today's multi-ethnic, multi-racial German football teams, taking...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Football in Turkey: A force for liberalisation and modernity?The relationship between football and society in Turkey is unique and complex. Behind the corruption and fanaticism...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?"Red Star Serbia, never Yugoslavia!" Football, politics and national identity in SerbiaIn the years before the war football fans from the former Yugoslavia had a sort of premilitary training in the...
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Published in: HomeTime to show Israel the red card, says Palestinian footballerThere has been a sad catalogue of children falling victim to Israeli bullets and shells while playing football in...
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Published in: openSecurityFootball, politics and protest in BrazilThe protests on the streets of Brazilian cities are by no means anti-Brazil (or even anti-football). Rather, they...
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Published in: HomeThe Nation's Most Holy Institution: football and the construction of Croatian national identityMore than religion or war, it is football that is uniquely shaping Croatian national identity in a post-Yugoslav world
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFootball, fascism and the British
Sunderland manager Di Canio has apparently finally distanced himself from fascism. What can we learn from the...
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Published in: Home'My Turkey': Berlin, immigration and the amateur football sceneBerlin's Turkish football clubs tell the tale of a local struggle for multiculturalism and integration, far away...
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Published in: HomeNot enjoying the football. But ever interested by it
Is football racist to its core? The author starts out having thought so, but his experience of a particular group of...
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Published in: oDRFootball & politics: the legacy of Euro 2012 in UkraineAhead of the Euro 2012 football championships, media attention on political scandal and excessive profiteering has...
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Published in: oDRDangerous allies: when football hooligans and politicans meetFootball hooliganism occurs in societies all over the world - even in the Soviet Union, however much that was...
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Published in: oDRThe Police International vs Russia’s football fansAs Russia’s largest and best organised ‘horizontal’ community in Russia, football fans have found themselves at the...
