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Abstract
Elite sport is the vehicle for global interactions via both its shared practices and the relations engendered by its governing bodies and its global tournaments. This capability has attracted the attentions of those seeking both nation‐building and reconciliation in war‐damaged nations. The narrative that follows has global implications, telling as it does the story of George Weah, a Liberian‐born footballer who became a humanitarian ambassador, and later aspired to become his country's president. Weah's story informs debates on globalization, illustrating the transnational career of a man who developed a keen understanding of institutional politics and patronage and who allowed himself to be courted by various global figures. These scenarios took place in Liberia, a war‐devastated African nation. This tale thus provides for reflection on how sport can encourage and undermine practises of nationhood. As a former World Footballer of the Year, Weah was a Liberian success story and well aware of his populist appeal. However, the issue of who a people are and who is to be their national political representative has proven to be a very fraught issue in the Liberian context. Whether global sporting networks have made the world smaller and the people more knowing in the Liberian context is an issue this article raises in considering its most famous citizen.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Guru And Genius -- Chapter 3: City Of Champions -- Chapter 4: Building On Success -- Chapter 5: Fixers And Makers -- Chapter 6: Legacy And Leverage -- Chapter 7: Decline And Revival -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: The Final Round.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Rings of Stee -- Chapter 2: A Champion In Town -- Chapter 3: The Attraction Of 'Fisti-Cuffs' -- Chapter 4: The Gloves Are On -- Chapter 5: Sheffield's First Contender -- Chapter 6: Prejudice, War And Poverty -- Chapter 7: Hitting Hard -- Chapter 8: Make Do And Mend -- Chapter 9: Punch-Drunk Humanity.

R.H. Tawney is an iconic thinker in British left-wing circles, whose writings during the early-mid 20th century helped to forge the direction of democratic socialist thinking and Labour Party policies.This book provides a fresh and accessible guide to the ideas of Tawney for new readers and to set straight the record of what Tawney's political thought really is, warts and all, in place of the rather over-simplified picture painted by the major commentators. It shows how Tawney's ideas changed over nearly 40 years of writing, as his own life experiences and the traumatic events of the two World Wars and their aftermaths drew him to a more secular and practical interpretation of politics.The book renders a service to scholarship, being based on original research, including examination of the Tawney Archive at the LSE, and makes use of unpublished works of Tawney.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Images of Social Control -- 1 Introduction: Visions of Surveillance -- 2 A History of Photographic Surveillance and the Rise of CCTV -- 3 The Ever Present Gaze: CCTV Surveillance in Britain -- 4 The Selling of CCTV: Political and Media Discourses -- Part II: The Unforgiving Eye -- 5 Introduction: Watching the Watchers - Theory and Method -- 6 The Watchers and the Watched: The Social Structuring of Surveillance -- 7 Working Rules and the Social Construction of Suspicion -- 8 Communications and Consequences -- 9 From Images to Action: From the Control Room to the Street -- Part III: Seeing the Future -- 10 Towards the Maximum Surveillance Society -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- Football in the Making -- Part I: The Old World Superpowers: Veteran Players -- 1 Associating with Football: Social Identity in England 1863-1998 -- 2 Hooligans and Carnival Fans: Scottish Football Supporter Cultures -- 3 The Coming of Age: the World Cup of France '98 -- 4 Football Identity and Youth Culture in Germany -- Part II: Glory and Innovation: Pre-eminent Players -- 5 Everything in Moderation: the Swedish Model -- 6 Post-Modern Times: Identities and Violence in Argentine Football -- 7 The Brazilian Style of Football and its Dilemmas -- Part III: Waiting in the Wings: Marginal Players -- 8 Making the Maltese Cross: Football on a Small Island -- 9 Beyond Edirne: Football and the National Identity Crisis in Turkey -- 10 View from the Periphery: Football in Indonesia -- Part IV: Contested Decisions: Disunited Players -- 11 The Generation Game: Football among the Baga of Guinea -- 12 The Territorial Politics of Soccer in Northern Ireland -- 13 Team Selection and the Chosen People in Israel: the Case of Hapoel Taibeh -- 14 From Ends to Trenches, and Back: Football in the Former Yugoslavia -- Part V: New Tactics: Contemporary Players -- 15 Bhola Lethu: Football in Urban South Africa -- 16 No Longer Worlds Apart? British Influences in Norwegian Football -- 17 The Suburban Soccer Field: Sport and America's Culture of Privilege -- 18 The Japanese Dream: Soccer Culture towards the New Millennium -- References -- Index.

Since 1995, the Italian Lega Nord (LN) political party has depicted itself as the defender of Padania, a territory that covers the mainly affluent regions of Northern Italy. Around this politico-spatial territory, the LN has shaped an identity based on the notion of Popolo Padano (the Padanian People). Since the new millennium, LN rhetoric has increasingly focused—stemming more from the demands of realpolitik than those of conviction—on opposing irregular immigration per se and, more specifically, Islam and Muslim immigration. In the eyes of the LN propagandists and their media, the theology of Islam and its practitioners represent a growing threat to the modern Italian and Padanian identity (and tradition). The LN has not been alone in using the media to oppose Islam; the Italian media has reinforced LN messages; Muslims are generally depicted as dangerous and compared with terrorists and their religion and culture are described as the opposite of Italian/West values. Something approximating to a "moral panic" around this issue has ensued. Integral to this are notions of morality combined with practices of moral entrepreneurship. What follows seeks to highlight the LN's stereotypical depictions of Islam. This evaluation is important because the LN was a major player in former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government (2008-2011) and is still a significant party among the Italian political spectrum. Integral to what follows are the following questions: "Is contemporary Islamic immigration a threat to the Italian (and Padanian) way of life?" and "Are the perceived threats to be found in the periodic uncertainties that societies suffer or might we need to search for wider processes?"

This paper examines two nationally renowned football (il calcio) supporter groups located in the capital city of Rome, the centre of Italian political power. The first the Boys, followers of AS Roma, have been notoriously neo-fascist in character since 1972. The second, the Irriducibili who follow SS Lazio, a club that also play in Rome, have, since 1987, attained a notoriety based on toughness and violence. Defying historical, enmitybased logic the Boys and Irriducibili have shared since 1987 a neo-fascist ideology that has made the two curva (terraces) they occupy in the capital city's Olympic Stadium less hostile to each other. Indeed, the two groups have turned their antagonism against the State and the Italian police. These fan-protagonists exist in groups known throughout Italy as UltraS, the capital S being our neologism to define the neo-fascist-oriented fans and to differentiate them from the wider hardcore football supporters who are referred to as ultra. The analysis herein focuses on these two UltraS entities and considers three central elements in the concept they promote of the 'true' UltraS: the principle of non omologazione (non-conformism), the Tradition versus Modernity opposition so crucial to the make-up of the UltraS cultural identity, and the attempt by such gatherings to live up to the ideal type of the Warrior. This research utilised the ethnographic method and involved the researcher 'being there' amongst the leading players of these two aforementioned groupings during various periods between 2001 and 2009. Those subject to academic inquiry are herein permitted to articulate their story and rationale. At the same time the researchers are concomitantly 'being here', seeking to infer the motivations of the members.