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'Playing on the break : Karl Polanyi and the double-movement 'Against Modern Football'

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Webber, David M. (2017) 'Playing on the break : Karl Polanyi and the double-movement 'Against Modern Football'. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 52 (7). pp. 875-893. doi:10.1177/1012690215621025

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Abstract

While the popularity of English football increases worldwide, there has been a marked rise in the discontent expressed by a small but growing group of domestic fans. This dissent has led to the emergence of a movement broadly defined as being ‘Against Modern Football’ (AMF), a banner under which fans of rival clubs have gathered in an attempt to challenge the poor governance, commercialism and greed that has come to dominate the English game. This article offers a conceptualisation of what it means to be ‘against modern football’ based upon Karl Polanyi’s analysis of the market society. Developing the dialectic of the ‘double-movement’ that appears in Polanyi’s most famous work, The Great Transformation, this article demonstrates how these governing principles might be useful in explaining both the complex cultural political economy of English football and the possibilities that exist for the AMF movement to socially re-embed the modern game.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Journal or Publication Title: International Review for the Sociology of Sport
Publisher: Sage
ISSN: 1012-6902
Official Date: 1 November 2017
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DateEvent
1 November 2017Published
23 December 2015Available
Volume: 52
Number: 7
Page Range: pp. 875-893
DOI: 10.1177/1012690215621025
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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