Critical Research in Football

 About the Series

The Critical Research in Football book series was launched in 2017 to showcase the inter- and multi-disciplinary breadth of debate relating to football. The series defines ‘football’ as broader than association football, with research on rugby, Gaelic and gridiron codes also featured. Including monographs, edited collections, short books and textbooks, books in the series are written and/or edited by leading experts in the field whilst consciously also affording space to emerging voices in the area, and are designed to appeal to students, postgraduate students and scholars who are interested in the range of disciplines in which critical research in football connects. The series is published in association with Routledge.

The books in these series:

Football Fandom, Sexualities and Activism: A Cultural Relational Sociology – Prof Peter Milward 

Critical Issues in Football: A Sociological Analysis of the Beautiful Game - Edited By Will Roberts, Stuart Whigham, Alex Culvin, Daniel Parnell

Football and Discrimination: Antisemitism and Beyond - Edited By Pavel Brunssen, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum

Football and Popular Culture: Singing Out from the Stands - Edited By Stephen R. Millar, Martin J. Power, Paul Widdop, Daniel Parnell, James Carr

Football, Family, Gender and Identity: The Football Self - By Hanya Pielichaty

Football, Politics and Identity - Edited By James Carr, Daniel Parnell, Paul Widdop, Martin J. Power, Stephen R. Millar

The UEFA European Football Championships: Politics, Media Spectacle and Social Change - By Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen, Renan Petersen-Wagner

Diego Maradona: A Socio-Cultural Study - Edited By Pablo Brescia, Mariano Paz

Integrated Marketing Communications in Football - By Argyro Elisavet Manoli

Football and Risk: Trends and Perspectives - By Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen

Russia and the 2018 FIFA World Cup - Edited By Richard Arnold

Fan Activism, Protest and Politics: Ultras in Post-Socialist Croatia - By Andrew Hodges

Politics, Ideology and Football Fandom: The Transformation of Modern Poland -  By Radosław Kossakowski, Przemysław Nosal, Wojciech Woźniak

The Development of Women's Soccer: Legacies, Participation, and Popularity in Germany - By Henk Meier

Football as Medicine: Prescribing Football for Global Health Promotion - Edited By Peter Krustrup, Daniel Parnell

African Footballers in Europe: Migration, Community, and Give Back Behaviours - By Ernest Yeboah Acheampong, Malek Bouhaouala, Michel Raspaud

Football in Fiction: A History - By Lee McGowan

Football Fandom, Protest and Democracy: Supporter Activism in Turkey - By Dağhan Irak

Football, Fandom and Consumption - By Oliver Brooks