Routledge Handbook of Sport Fans and Fandom (Paperback, 1)

1. Editors’ Introduction,  Part I: What Is a Fan and How Do We Know?,  2. Imagining the Citizen-Fan: Sport Metaphor in American Politics and Implications for Democratic Culture,  3. Using Sport Fandom to Fulfill Personal and Societal Needs,  4. Experiences of Female Fans in a Female-Defined Sport: Central, Valued and Visible,  5. Understanding Demand for Women’s Sports Begins with Understanding Men’s Sports History,  6. Comparing the Cost of Fandom in European Football,  7. Building Civic Identity Around a Suburban Ballpark District,  8. Studying Sports Fans Through Ethnographic Method: Walk a Mile in Their Shoes,  9. Media Coverage of Sports Fans: A Framing Analysis,  10. Rebounding as Praxis: Interrogating Positionality and Proximity in Sporting Fieldwork,  11. Should We Admire Athletes?,  12. Centering Race in Sport Fan Research: A Call to Action,  Part II: Who Fans Are,  13. Sport Fandom: The Complexity of Performative Role Identities,  14. Women Sports Fans,  15. The Sports Fanship Lifecycle,  16. The Olympics Sports Fan: A Distinctive Demographic,  17. Para Sport Fandom: Fans and Followers of Paralympians,  18. English Football, Sexuality, and Homophobia: Gay Fans’ Perspectives on Governance and Visibility,  19. Photography, Autoethnography and Mapping Sporting Transformations: A Discussion of Stuart Roy Clarke’s Work on British Football,  20. The Ecosystem of Football Supporter Groups in Brazil: Traditions, Innovation and Hybridity,  21. Athletes with Disabilities and their Use of Social Media to Cultivate Fandom,  22. Engaging the Non-Local Sport Fan,  Part III: What Fans Do,  23. Digital Sport Fandom,  24. Online Performances of Fandom: Selective Self-Presentation, Perceived Affordances, and Parasocial Interactions on Social Media,  25. The Construction of Sports Fandom by Sports Betting Companies,  26. Fandom in the Realm of Fantasy Sport,  27. Understanding Sport Videogames: The Extensions of Fan,  28. Sports Fans Hunt for Women’s Games: Beyond News Media Coverage,  29. Twitter Discourse in the Southeastern Conference: The Nick Saban Effect,  30. Football Fan Reactions to Video Assistant Referee: No More Hand of God,  31. Reconfiguring Transnational Fan Experience Through Digital Media: European Football in China,  32. The Commodification and Mediatization of Fandom: Creating Executive Fandom,  33. Football Fans and Food: Feeding the Desire,  34. Fan Reactions to Athlete Activism: “Stick to Sports”