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Football and climate change

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This book is the first in-depth academic effort to explore football’s role in causing climate change, as well as its potential to address it. Football matters as an industry, but above all, as cult...
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Football and climate change is the first comprehensive academic engagement tackling the relationship between the beautiful game and climate change. Bridging Environmental Politics, Environmental Sociology and Sports Management Studies, the book has broad appeal across academia and for practitioners. It explores the history and present of football’s relationship to fossil capital, and then delves deep into how ecological sustainability is understood in football. The book is based on interviews with key actors working to make the sport more sustainable. It points to the roles of petrostates in hosting international tournaments and owning major football clubs as particularly problematic instances of sportswashing. Ultimately, Football and climate change sets out a research agenda for scholars across disciplines and suggests actions for actors with a stake in the sport to make it more sustainable.
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Price: £85.00
Pages: 240
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Globalizing Sport Studies
Publication Date: 02 March 2027
ISBN: 9781526196620
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate change, SPORTS & RECREATION / Football, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Capitalism, Sustainability, Capitalism
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James Jackson is Hallsworth Research Fellow in Politics at the University of Manchester
Mark Doidge is Reader in Sociology of Sports at the University of Loughborough
Oscar Berglund is Senior Lecturer in International Public & Social Policy at the University of Bristol
Jennifer Amann is Doctoral Researcher in Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences at the University of Loughborough
Samuel Toscano is Doctoral Researcher in Politics at the University of Manchester

Introduction: A missing piece in the climate puzzle
1 Historicising football and industrial capitalism
2 The flow of fossil capital through football
3 Actually existing unsustainability within football
4 Managing sustainability in football
5 The state of play: Fans
6 The state of play: Players
Conclusion
References
Appendix: List of interviews