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Football memory in a European perspective: the missing link in the European integration process
Fußball-Erinnerungskultur aus Europäischer Perspektive: der Missing Link im europäischen Integrationsprozess
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Abstract The missing link in the process of European integration seems to be a sense of a European collective identity. The article therefore analyzes how European football might add some cultural substance to the European institutional frame. Indeed, football appears to be very suitable to fill the gap as i... view more
The missing link in the process of European integration seems to be a sense of a European collective identity. The article therefore analyzes how European football might add some cultural substance to the European institutional frame. Indeed, football appears to be very suitable to fill the gap as it receives wide media coverage and succeeds in touching many people around Europe emotionally. The central question is, if there are already some lieux de mémoire which have been established by European football and which have turned into pan-European narratives. In the light of recent research on European football, several cultural phenomena are examined if they could work as realms of a shared European memory: historic matches on the European scene have to be taken into account as well as stadiums themselves as sites of memory or even a disaster like the catastrophe of Heysel in 1985.... view less
Keywords
collective memory; culture of remembrance; collective identity; Europeanization; historical development; European integration; soccer
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Leisure Research
European Politics
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 255-269
Journal
Historical Social Research, 40 (2015) 4
Issue topic
Football history: selected contributions to sport in society
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed