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The Social and Political Significance of Football Gatherings: Escape to Freedom

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Forbidden Football in Ceausescu’s Romania

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The chapter grasps the theory of forbidden football, more precisely the social-political significance of football gatherings as special form of consumption of transboundary media transmission . The phenomenon presented itself along three dimensions: sports consumption; the expression of ethnic/community identity; and resistance against the Romanian political system of the time. Football gatherings created and alternative social space characterised by volunteer co-operation (as opposed to the compulsory activities imposed by the system), openness (as opposed to closed society) and coercion-free discourse (as opposed to coercive discourse). The opposition of alternative expert networks and legitimate and illegitimate counter-expert networks stood in the field of forces of the grassroots movement .

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Péter, L. (2018). The Social and Political Significance of Football Gatherings: Escape to Freedom. In: Forbidden Football in Ceausescu’s Romania. Global Culture and Sport Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70709-9_6

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