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Books by David Ranc
""Description 'Mercenaries', 'cheats', 'destroying the soul of (English) football', 'destroying ... more ""Description
'Mercenaries', 'cheats', 'destroying the soul of (English) football', 'destroying the link between football clubs and their supporters': foreign football players have been accused of being at the origin of all the ills of contemporary football. How true is this? Foreign players and football supporters: The Old Firm, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain is the first academic book to look at supporters' reactions to the increase in the number of foreign players in the very clubs they support week in week out. It shows that football supporters identify with their club through a variety of means, which may change or be replaced with others, and provides the most comprehensive view on football supporters' attachment to their club in the European Union, following the increase in European legislation. Divided into three case studies on Glasgow (Celtic and Rangers), Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal in London, the book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to chart the evolution of the link between supporters and club between 1995 and today. It is based on extensive research through the press of three nations, as well as interviews with officials and supporters. It provides an excellent read for students and researchers in Sports Studies, Politics, European Studies, French Studies and other Social Sciences, or to anyone interested in one of the most original institutions of contemporary western societies: mass spectator sports.
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Papers by David Ranc
Manchester University Press eBooks, Jul 19, 2013
Manchester University Press eBooks, Jul 19, 2013
Football unites all those people who love the game, whether in agreement or disagreement, at the ... more Football unites all those people who love the game, whether in agreement or disagreement, at the same time as it divides the supporters of the different clubs. The more you know about the game, the deeper the enjoyment; the more passionately you support your club, the deeper your involvement. The amount of intellectual energy generated by football is unimaginably massive; the effect of such passion is to dramatise the lives of people who might otherwise be snared in disadvantage, poverty and disability, with very little to look forward to if not their club's promotion. This cultural activity receives no support whatever from government because it needs none.
Sport and the Construction of Identities: Proceedings of the XIth International CESH-Congress, 2007, ISBN 978-3-85132-494-5, págs. 196-205, 2007
Football, Europe et régulations, 2011
The Palgrave International Handbook of Football and Politics, 2018
On October 14th, the game between Albania & Serbia in Belgrade had to be stopped shortly before h... more On October 14th, the game between Albania & Serbia in Belgrade had to be stopped shortly before half-time. A drone was flown over the stadium. It carried a flag which has been widely reported as…
Foreign players and football supporters, 2013
Populärkultur und deutsch-französische Mittler / Culture de masse et médiateurs franco-allemands
European Football and Collective Memory, 2015
Invented in the inter-war period by French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs (Halbwachs, 1925 and 195... more Invented in the inter-war period by French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs (Halbwachs, 1925 and 1950), the notion of collective memory (memoire collective) surmises that the act of remembering is never entirely solitary and that, instead, even personal memories are shaped by the values and norms of a collective, expressed both in what that collective has decided to remember or forget and in the ways that items are remembered (or, conversely, forgotten). The notion was soon taken up by historians. In Jacques Le Goff’s groundbreaking La Nouvelle Histoire (1978), Pierre Nora’s chapter considered the contribution that an analysis of a collective group’s memory could make to cultural history. This is the same Pierre Nora who initiated and directed a gigantic study on the cultural collective memory of a quintessentially political object France, Les lieux de memoire (Nora, 1984–1992), published over eight years in three volumes (La Republique, La Nation and Les Frances) between 1984 and 1992. Though criticised by Henry Rousso for its vagueness (Rousso, 1987), the notion of lieu de memoire can be construed as any item (material or immaterial) which has been saved from oblivion by a collective, especially local or national, and which has also been invested with values (in a broad sense) that still make sense in the contemporary context. A lieu de memoire is the consequence of the existence of a collective memory.
Humanisme et Entreprise, 2013
La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que d... more La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement. Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit.
Foreign Players and Football Supporters, 2012
ASSER International Sports Law Series, 2009
Foreign Players and Football Supporters, 2012
""Description 'Mercenaries', 'cheats', 'destroying the soul of (English) football', 'destroying ... more ""Description
'Mercenaries', 'cheats', 'destroying the soul of (English) football', 'destroying the link between football clubs and their supporters': foreign football players have been accused of being at the origin of all the ills of contemporary football. How true is this? Foreign players and football supporters: The Old Firm, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain is the first academic book to look at supporters' reactions to the increase in the number of foreign players in the very clubs they support week in week out. It shows that football supporters identify with their club through a variety of means, which may change or be replaced with others, and provides the most comprehensive view on football supporters' attachment to their club in the European Union, following the increase in European legislation. Divided into three case studies on Glasgow (Celtic and Rangers), Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal in London, the book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to chart the evolution of the link between supporters and club between 1995 and today. It is based on extensive research through the press of three nations, as well as interviews with officials and supporters. It provides an excellent read for students and researchers in Sports Studies, Politics, European Studies, French Studies and other Social Sciences, or to anyone interested in one of the most original institutions of contemporary western societies: mass spectator sports.
""
Manchester University Press eBooks, Jul 19, 2013
Manchester University Press eBooks, Jul 19, 2013
Football unites all those people who love the game, whether in agreement or disagreement, at the ... more Football unites all those people who love the game, whether in agreement or disagreement, at the same time as it divides the supporters of the different clubs. The more you know about the game, the deeper the enjoyment; the more passionately you support your club, the deeper your involvement. The amount of intellectual energy generated by football is unimaginably massive; the effect of such passion is to dramatise the lives of people who might otherwise be snared in disadvantage, poverty and disability, with very little to look forward to if not their club's promotion. This cultural activity receives no support whatever from government because it needs none.
Sport and the Construction of Identities: Proceedings of the XIth International CESH-Congress, 2007, ISBN 978-3-85132-494-5, págs. 196-205, 2007
Football, Europe et régulations, 2011
The Palgrave International Handbook of Football and Politics, 2018
On October 14th, the game between Albania & Serbia in Belgrade had to be stopped shortly before h... more On October 14th, the game between Albania & Serbia in Belgrade had to be stopped shortly before half-time. A drone was flown over the stadium. It carried a flag which has been widely reported as…
Foreign players and football supporters, 2013
Populärkultur und deutsch-französische Mittler / Culture de masse et médiateurs franco-allemands
European Football and Collective Memory, 2015
Invented in the inter-war period by French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs (Halbwachs, 1925 and 195... more Invented in the inter-war period by French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs (Halbwachs, 1925 and 1950), the notion of collective memory (memoire collective) surmises that the act of remembering is never entirely solitary and that, instead, even personal memories are shaped by the values and norms of a collective, expressed both in what that collective has decided to remember or forget and in the ways that items are remembered (or, conversely, forgotten). The notion was soon taken up by historians. In Jacques Le Goff’s groundbreaking La Nouvelle Histoire (1978), Pierre Nora’s chapter considered the contribution that an analysis of a collective group’s memory could make to cultural history. This is the same Pierre Nora who initiated and directed a gigantic study on the cultural collective memory of a quintessentially political object France, Les lieux de memoire (Nora, 1984–1992), published over eight years in three volumes (La Republique, La Nation and Les Frances) between 1984 and 1992. Though criticised by Henry Rousso for its vagueness (Rousso, 1987), the notion of lieu de memoire can be construed as any item (material or immaterial) which has been saved from oblivion by a collective, especially local or national, and which has also been invested with values (in a broad sense) that still make sense in the contemporary context. A lieu de memoire is the consequence of the existence of a collective memory.
Humanisme et Entreprise, 2013
La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que d... more La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement. Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit.
Foreign Players and Football Supporters, 2012
ASSER International Sports Law Series, 2009
Foreign Players and Football Supporters, 2012
Foreign Players and Football Supporters, 2012