Routledge handbook of sport fans and fandom

Recommended by: Anirudh Kalia

Content:

Part I: What is a fan and how do we know? -- Imagining the citizen-fan : sport metaphor in American politics and implications for democratic culture / Michael Butterworth -- Using sport fandom to fulfill personal and societal needs / Daniel L. Wann -- Experiences of female fans in a female-defined sport : central, valued and visible / Toni Bruce and Margaret Henley -- Understanding demand for women's sports begins with understanding men's sports history / David Berri -- Comparing the cost of fandom in European football / Selçuk Özaydın and Cem Tinaz -- Building civic identity around a suburban ballpark district / Tim Kellison and Beth A. Cianfrone -- Studying sports fans through ethnographic method : walk a mile in their shoes / Jessica Richards, Keith Parry and Daniela Spanjaard -- Media coverage of sports fans : a framing analysis / Mark Turner -- Rebounding as praxis : interrogating positionality and proximity in sporting fieldwork / Courtney M. Cox -- Should we admire athletes? / Ben Bradley -- Centering race in sport fan research: a call to action / Anne C. Osborne and Danielle Sarver Coombs -- Part II: Who fans are -- Sport fandom : the complexity of performative role identities / Shannon Kerwin and Larena Hoeber -- Women sports fans / Katharine Jones, Stacey Pope and Kim Toffoletti -- The sports fanship lifecycle / Irene I. van Driel, Walter Gantz and Lawrence A. Wenner -- The Olympics sports fan : a distinctive demographic / Andrew C. Billings, Samuel Hakim and Qingru Xu -- Para sport fandom : fans and followers of paralympians / Linda K. Fuller -- English football, sexuality, and homophobia : gay fans' perspectives on governance and visibility / David Letts and Rory Magrath -- Photography, autoethnography & mapping sporting transformations : a discussion of Stuart Roy Clarke's work on British football / John Williams -- The ecosystem of football supporter groups in Brazil : traditions, innovation, and hybridity / Ana Carolina Vimieiro -- Disabled athletes' use of social media to cultivate fandom / Joshua R. Pate and Robin Hardin -- Engaging the non-local sport fan / Dorothy Collins --
Part III: What fans do -- Digital sport fandom / Heather Kennedy, Josh Gonzales and Ann Pegoraro -- Online performances of fandom : selective self-presentation, perceived affordances, and parasocial interactions on social media / Kathryn Coduto -- The construction of sports fandom by sports betting companies / Jason Kido Lopez -- Fandom in the realm of fantasy sport / Brody J. Ruihley and Robin Hardin -- Understanding sport videogames : the extensions of fan / Steven Conway -- Sports fans hunt for women's games : beyond news media coverage / Anji L. Phillips and Dunja Antunovic -- Twitter discourse in the Southeaster conference : the Nick Saban effect / Vincent L. Benigni and Lance V. Porter -- Football fan reactions to video assistant referee : no more hand of God / Yuya Kiuchi -- Reconfiguring transnational fan experience through digital media : European football in China / Yuan Gong -- The commodification and mediatization of fandom : creating executive fandom / Brett Hutchins, David Rowe and Andy Ruddock -- Football fans and food : feeding the desire / Keith D. Parry and Jessica Richards -- Fan reactions to athlete activism : "stick to sports" -- Stephen Warren.