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GLOBALISATION, TRADITION AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN SPANISH FOOTBALL: REFLECTIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
GLOBALISATION, TRADITION AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN SPANISH FOOTBALL: REFLECTIONS AND OBSERVATIONS

Author(s): Jim O’Brien
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Editura Sitech
Keywords: football; identity; mass populism; world cup; iconography;

Summary/Abstract: This article offers some reflections and observations on the complex relationship between the forces of Globalisation and Spanish football, posing the key question as to whether the impact of Globalisation has been a quintessentially corrosive dynamic, eroding the quasi – sacrosanct traditions of the Spanish game to fashion a distinctive post- modern pastiche of elitism and inequality based on an orgy of consumption and commodity.

  • Issue Year: 3/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 3-12
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English