SANKT PAULI. ANOTHER FOOTBALL IS POSSIBLE
by Carles Viñas i Natxo Parra
Description
This is not a book about football. It is more than a collection of anecdotes, data, goals and players of a club. Carles Viñas and Natxo Parra follow the story of St. Pauli through German history, from the unification of the country in the 19 th Century to its present. The field is itself a metaphor: of social struggles, worker’s demands, resistance to Nazism and ecological and anti- nuclear militant demonstrations. From promotions and relegations, squatters, popular empowerment, the founding of the Bundesliga, gentrification, club culture, anti-racism, anti- fascism and anti-sexism. St. Pauli is more than a football club. It is a way of understanding football, its ties with the community and the neighbourhood, to everyday. It’s a metaphor of a city, Hamburg. But not everything is as nice as it sounds. Even for the St. Pauli, a club between professional football, navigating through the contradictions of modern football, where money is everything. Viñas and Parra shows us what is hidden behind the skull and bones of the St. Pauli, the pirates of the Bundesliga.
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Author Biography
Carles Viñas (Barcelona) has a PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Barcelona (UB), where he teachers and is member of the Grup de Recerca I Anàlisi del Món Actual (GRANMA). He specializes in political extremism and political groups in sport organizations, and youth subcultures. Viñas also regularly contributes to several newspapers and has written Sankt Pauli. Un altre futbol és possible (Tigre de Paper, 2017), Una història de la ciutat a través del Barça (2012), Tolerància zero. La violència a l’esport (Angle, 2006), Skinheads a Catalunya (Columna, 2004). Natxo Parra (Barcelona, 1981) is a political scientist and attorney, who currently works for Col·lectiu Ronda. He has extensively written about social movements, trade-unionism and islamic extremism.
Tigre de Paper Edicions
The main publishing house of critical thinking in Catalan language with almost ten years of experience. Specialized in fiction and non-fiction we also publish comics and children's books.
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- Publisher Tigre de Paper Edicions
- Orginal LanguageCatalan
- ISBN/Identifier 9788416855032
- FormatPaperback
- Pages320
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleSankt Pauli, un altre futbol és possible
- Edition3rd
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