Call for Papers

The organisers of the international conference 'The Anthropology of European Football' have issued a call for papers. The conference aims at understanding football's impact on everyday lives and identity dynamics in Europe. Proposals for papers on any of the following research themes are welcome, but not confined to these areas:

* How are supporter and fan identities created in the everyday practices of football fan culture? * How do globalisation, commercialisation, and migration exert an influence on football fan culture? * What impact do Europeanisation and the increasing mobility of both supporters and players have on the self-perception of football fans? * How is the "Other" created among fans? How are exclusion and inclusion practices enacted, narrated and reproduced? * What cleavages and loyalties cross-cut European football, such as East vs. West and North vs. South, class, gender or politics?

The event is part of the interdisciplinary European research project FREE - Football Research in an Enlarged Europe (www.free-project.eu), funded by the European Commission's 7th European Framework Programme for Research (FP7).

The submission deadline is 10 May 2013.

For further information, please visit http://www.free-project.eu/news/