Lower League Football in Crisis : Issues of Organisation and Legitimacy in England and Germany / by Daniel Ziesche.
Ziesche, Daniel., author.
2020
H1-970.9
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Title Lower League Football in Crisis : Issues of Organisation and Legitimacy in England and Germany / by Daniel Ziesche.
Author Ziesche, Daniel., author.
Edition 1st ed. 2020.
ISBN 9783030537470
3030537471
9783030537470
3030537463
9783030537463
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XXI, 301 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number H1-970.9
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.48
Summary While the field of football studies has produced an abundance of literature on professional, top-league football, there is little research output to do with the non-top level football. This book explores the relationship between the top and lower leagues, laying open the drastic schisms that exist between the different levels. The study links the developments at the top level of English and German football in the past 30 years to transformational processes in lower league football. Illustrating how the hegemonic status of top football weighs hard on the spheres below, it depicts how it also serves as a blueprint for lower league football clubs' strategies in coping with a threefold dilemma of institutional legitimacy that shows itself in economic, cultural and social dimensions. Taking the different club structures in both national contexts as a starting point, it portrays both the efficacy of institutional frameworks and how these can be challenged from below. This research will be of interest to students and scholars across football studies, sports studies, the sociology of sport, and organisation studies. Daniel Ziesche is Assistant Professor at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany.
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Series Football research in an enlarged Europe.
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Football Clubs, Community and Legitimacy
Chapter 2. Setting the Scene: Structural Differences and Theoretical Considerations
Part I: A Threefold Dilemma of Legitimacy. Chapter 3. Economic Crisis: Number Games
Chapter 4. Cultural Crisis: The Great Divide
Chapter 5. Social Crisis: Building Bridges
Part II: Ways of the Crises. Chapter 6. Case Studies from England and Germany
Chapter 7. Economic Coping Mechanisms: Professionalisation, or: Creating Sustainable Structures
Chapter 8. Cultural Coping Mechanisms: Communitisation, or: (Re-)Engaging with Communities
Chapter 9. Social Coping Mechanisms: Societisation, or: Improving Credibility as Social Institutions
Chapter 10. One Size Does Not Fit All: Comparison and Results
Chapter 11. Conclusion: Towards Hybrid Organisations and Supermodern Football.

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