Football Fans and Social Spacing, 1st ed. 2021
Power and Control in a Modernising Landscape
Leisure Studies in a Global Era Series

Through these five chapters, Ian Woolsey asks how the collective responses of travelling football supporters to these major societal currents and changes within the game; liquid modernity and the post-1989 transformation of English football, are managed via the distinct and oft-competing processes of social spacing in football. An important inspiration for the book is the work of Zygmunt Bauman, particularly his ideas on cognitive, aesthetic, and moral ?spacings? as a social production. Ian Woolsey?s powerful and persuasive application of these ideas not only extends Bauman?s focus on the ?politics? of power in public space to include a consideration of leisure but in so doing shows that ethnography, selectively conducted and theoretically informed, can provide data for a rich, sociological account of a football world.