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  • Africa's World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space
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  • Edited by Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann
  • 2013
  • Published by: University of Michigan Press
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Africa’s World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space focuses on a remarkable month in the modern history of Africa and in the global history of football. Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann are well-known experts on South African football, and they have assembled an impressive team of local and international journalists, academics, and football experts to reflect on the 2010 World Cup and its broader significance, its meanings, complexities, and contradictions.

The World Cup’s sounds, sights, and aesthetics are explored, along with questions of patriotism, nationalism, and spectatorship in Africa and around the world. Experts on urban design and communities write on how the presence of the World Cup worked to refashion urban spaces and negotiate the local struggles in the hosting cities. The volume is richly illustrated by authors’ photographs, and the essays in this volume feature chronicles of match day experiences; travelogues; ethnographies of fan cultures; analyses of print, broadcast, and electronic media coverage of the tournament; reflections on the World Cup’s private and public spaces; football exhibits in South African museums; and critiques of the World Cup’s processes of inclusion and exclusion, as well as its political and economic legacies.

The volume concludes with a forum on the World Cup, including Thabo Dladla, Director of Soccer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Mohlomi Kekeletso Maubane, a well-known Soweto-based writer and a soccer researcher, and Rodney Reiners, former professional footballer and current chief soccer writer for the Cape Argus newspaper in Cape Town. This collection will appeal to students, scholars, journalists, and fans.

Cover illustration: South African fan blowing his vuvuzela at South Africa vs. France, Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein, June 22, 2010. Photo by Chris Bolsmann.

Table of Contents

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  1. Cover
  2. p. C
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Preface and Acknowledgments
  2. pp. vii-x
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. xi-xiii
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  1. Map
  2. p. xiv
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-18
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  1. Part 1: Refashioning Urban Spaces and Local Struggles in Host Cities
  1. World Cup Finale on Long Street
  2. pp. 21-30
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  1. Integration, Marginalization, and Exclusion in World Cup Johannesburg
  2. pp. 31-41
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  1. The World Cup Geography of Durban: What Will Endure?
  2. pp. 42-51
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  1. Cape Town, the City without and within the White Lines
  2. pp. 52-58
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  1. Part 2: World Cup Sounds, Visual Culture, and Aesthetics
  1. World Cup Music and Football Noise: The Lion King, Waka Waka, and the Vuvuzela
  2. pp. 61-69
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  1. The Vuvuzela as Paradox of Leisure and Noise: A Socioculture Perspective
  2. pp. 70-76
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  1. Halakasha! The Time Has Come! : Exhibiting the Art of Football Fandom
  2. pp. 77-86
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  1. Soccer Bleu: The View from Paris
  2. pp. 87-96
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  1. Part 3: Spectatorship, Patriotism, Nationalism, and Pan-Africanism
  1. Ghana's Black Stars: A Fifty-Year Journey to the World Cup Quarterfinals
  2. pp. 99-108
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  1. To Sing or Not to Sing? : National Anthems, Football Obsessions, and Bafana Bafana's World Cup
  2. pp. 109-118
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  1. An Aficionado's Perspectives on the Complexity and Contradictions of Rooting for a Team in the 2010 World Cup
  2. pp. 119-131
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  1. Chronicling the Uruguayan World Cup Experience across South Africa
  2. pp. 132-147
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  1. Screaming U-S-A! (and Other Imagined Things): Us versus Them at South Africa 2010
  2. pp. 148-158
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  1. Three Lions Ate My Shirt: England Fans in South Africa
  2. pp. 159-167
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  1. Mexi-co, Mexi-co, Ra, Ra, Ra! : Invented Traditions and the Cultural Performance of Mexican Fans at the 2010 World Cup
  2. pp. 168-175
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  1. The Road to 2010: A Soccer Journey from Marrakech to Johannesburg
  2. pp. 176-186
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  1. Part 4: Political Discourses and Economic Rationales of World Cup Hosting
  1. Worlds Apart? : The 1995 Rugby World Cup and the 2010 FIFA World Cup
  2. pp. 189-199
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  1. South Africa Welcomes the World: The 2010 World Cup, Xenophobia, and South Africa's Ubuntu Dream
  2. pp. 200-209
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  1. In the Theater of the World Cup
  2. pp. 210-218
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  1. Forum on the 2010 World Cup: Perspectives from South African Practitioners
  2. pp. 219-234
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  1. Images
  2. pp. Image 1-Image 16
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  1. Selected Bibliography
  2. pp. 235-242
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 243-246
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 247-256
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