‘It's not just about the football’: leading social change in a Sunday league football team

Tucker, Lee

doi:10.1080/17430437.2015.929296

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“…Republica (and its affiliated network of DIY political football clubs) have also been found to provide a 'practical education' of what 'socialist sport' can mean in the twenty-first century for players and coaches attempting to foster inclusive anti-racist sporting values within the hyper competitive atmosphere of local amateur football league structures (Totten, 2011;. Crucially, these studies locate 'praxis' and forms of pedagogy within the dayto-day life of the club, where dogmatic political theory is confronted with, and augmented by, the necessary pragmatism involved in nurturing equitable social relations on the ground (Tucker, 2015).…”

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Three-sided football: DIY football and social transformationalism

Pollock

2021

Sport, Education and Society

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Devised as an illustrative example of 'triolectics', Danish artist and philosopher Asger Jorn first conceived of three-sided football (3SF) in 1962 as a way to radically transform the world. However, 3SF remained a purely abstracted philosophical concept until 1994 when a group of anarchists, architects and artists decided to play the game for the first time. Since these early experiments, 3SF has been played and developed across the globe, from anti-racist football festivals in Germany, contemporary art installations in France, through to youth outreach programs in Colombia. Far beyond its emergent context, the game continues to resonate for a myriad of social actors in search of bottom-up ways to enact transformational change in contemporary culture. Drawing from forty-four semi-structured interviews with players, coaches, curators and activists, this paper provides the first ethnography into 3SF and privileges much needed perspectives into how 'DIY Football' initiatives are actively redefining individual and collective relationships to sport and politics in informal volunteer settings. Utilising the work of Bourdieu as a useful conceptual heuristic, it details how participants reflect upon, and negotiate, the challenges of reaching beyond the 'doxic logics' of binary competitive team sport. Moreover, how the democratic 'desportised' spaces of 3SF transcend quotidian sporting contexts and offer distinct forms of political renewal, social inclusion and practical education. This study further contends that the horizontalist non-hierarchical nature of the game develops critical consciousness and community leadership for those involved in the play.

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Three-sided football: DIY football and social transformationalism

Pollock

2021

Sport, Education and Society

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Stakeholders leadership approaches in soccer context: a systematic review

2021

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The Big Story of a “Small” Football Club: Gümüşlükspor as an Alternative Model Experience for Turkey

İnal

2023

Sociology of Sport Journal

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This article argues that counter-hegemony, which is at the heart of sports activism, is not just an action but also the construction of alternative institutional structures. For this purpose, it investigates the practices of an amateur football club and discusses the structural problems of the Turkish amateur football league. The data, collected during a 6-month field study, were interpreted from a critical perspective, using a dialectical dialogue method to apply the theory of hegemony in sports by applying Antonio Gramsci’s concept of the “organic intellectual.” Consequently, this sports club has provided socialization and free football training for children while creating an alternative football culture with local characteristics that are opposed to class and gender inequalities and to homophobic attitudes common in sport.

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‘It's not just about the football’: leading social change in a Sunday league football team

Cited by 3 publications

References 26 publications

Three-sided football: DIY football and social transformationalism

Three-sided football: DIY football and social transformationalism

Stakeholders leadership approaches in soccer context: a systematic review

The Big Story of a “Small” Football Club: Gümüşlükspor as an Alternative Model Experience for Turkey

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