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The Ghost in the Constitution
A book that offers new directions in the study of memory in Spain, written by one of the world's leading scholars of contemporary Spanish culture.
El Clasico: Barcelona V Real Madrid
An investigation of the intrigue, politics and culture behind El Clásico - the hard-fought, long-running contest between two of the world's biggest football clubs - explaining the place sport's greatest rivalry has in Spanish life and the world of football.
The Barcelona Reader
Over the last twenty years there has been a growing international interest in the city of Barcelona. This has been reflected in the academic world through a series of studies, courses, seminars, and publications. The Barcelona Reader hinges together a selection of the best academic articles, written in English, about the city, and its main elements of identity and interest: art, urban planning, history and social movements. The book includes scholarly essays about Barcelona that can be of interest to the student and the general public alike. It focuses on cultural representations of the city: the arts (including literature) provide a complex yet discontinuous portrait of the city, similar to a patchwork. The authors selected create a kaleidoscope of views and voices thus presenting a diverse yet inclusive Barcelona portrait. The Barcelona Reader offers a multifaceted assessment that will be essential reading for anyone interested in this iconic city.
Barca
The story of FC Barcelona, written by the author of the internationally acclaimed Hand of God: The Life of Diego Maradona and updated with a new preface 'Burns' examination of the club's fates and fortunes always goes well beyond the game itself ... Burns is a brilliant journalist ... Unmissable' Total Football 'Anyone who really wants to know Barcelona should read Burns. A cracker – part sports book, part travelogue' Daily Mirror Barça is més que un club: more than a club. It is a social and political phenomenon, successful on the football field and emblematic of the proud region of Catalonia off it. Founded in 1898, FC Barcelona is today the world's biggest football club. To unravel the background to the Barça phenomenon, Jimmy Burns has travelled with supporters, talked to people intimately linked to the club, unearthed police files and long-forgotten newspaper reports. Barça: A People's Passion is much more than a book about football – it is a story of more than a hundred years of obsessive national pride and has now been brought right up to date.
The Political Football Stadium
This book focuses on the football stadium as a political space and examines how stadiums can be viewed as the objects and catalysts of political change. Rather than acting as functional constructions designed merely to host football games, stadiums stand out in the urban landscape as landmarks that serve as gathering points for large communities. The manifestation of the political in football stadiums can be heard in the discontent voiced by supporter activism; in the use of stadiums for national and local identity politics; in attempts to instrumentalize emotions by both totalitarian and democratic regimes; among fan groups in political uprisings, and in the surveillance of fans through e-tickets and seat allocation. This edited collection brings together a variety of case studies from a wide range of different contexts. Contributors stem from political science, sociology, history, anthropology, human geography and urbanism. As such, the book redefines and broadens what we understand as the political dimension of the football stadium.
Lluís Llach
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Who's who in Spain
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Die Königlichen
Der spanische Rekordmeister Real Madrid ist zugleich der erfolgreichste Klub der Welt und schaut auf stolze 120 Jahre Vereinsgeschichte zurück. Diese ist bewegend und voller Brüche: Historisch wegen der Rolle des Klubs während des Spanischen Bürgerkriegs. Der Klub stand in dieser Zeit kurz vor der Aufl ösung. Umso erstaunlicher seine Wiederauferstehung in den 1950er Jahren mit einer Mannschaft und Spielweise, die als das "weiße Ballett" bekannt wurden. Doch auch sportlich ging es auf- und abwärts, mussten Dursttrecken auch im Wettkampf mit dem FC Barcelona um die Vormachtposition in der spanischen Primera Division durchlaufen werden. Den Thron erklomm Real Madrid spätestens seit 2009 wieder und gewann seitdem allein fünf Champions-League-Titel der insgesamt 33 internationalen Titel. Die ganze sportpolitische Geschichte des königlichen Klubs Real Madrid – für alle Vereinsfans, aber auch jeden Liebhaber schönen Fußballs, der mit Stars wie Alfredo di Stefano und Ferenc Puskas, Zinedine Zidane, David Beckham und Ronaldo oder Luka Modric, Karim Benzema und Toni Kroos groß geworden ist.
In from the Margins
Produced by an independent group of policy makers, researchers & cultural managers, this book is a contribution to the debate initiated by the World Commission on Culture & Development (UN/Unesco) on the role of culture within society. It addresses various questions such as bridging the global cultural gap, mobilising human resources through culture & living & working in the communications society. Includes case studies, statistics & indicators.
