by Kate Zambon
University of Michigan Press, 2025
Cloth: 978-0-472-07738-0
Paper: 978-0-472-05738-2
eISBN: 978-0-472-90498-3 (OA)
“Interrogating Integration offers a timely intervention in debates on ethnicity and race under neoliberal regimes, the biopolitics thereof, and postmigrant citizenship within its mandates.”
— Kasturi Chatterjee, Transit“Zambon takes domains often dismissed as ”mere entertainment" and demonstrates how these domains are deeply entangled with the political project of integration. For those in sport business and management, this book reveals that sport is not only about competition and commerce; it is also a cultural space wherein anxieties about identity, belonging, and national values are constantly negotiated."
— Sangchul Park, Global Sports Business Journal“Interrogating Integration provides valuable analytical tools for understanding the concept and politics of intergration in Germany, explored through history, sporing events, national policies, and public debates. This engaging and illuminating book will be of particular interest to readers seeking to understand the foundations of Germany's contemporary integration policies, the roles that sport and celebrity have played in their development, and how these policies have come to function as guiding concepts for regulating.”
— Bastian Heinsohn, German Studies Review“Zambon’s book captures the paradox that soccer has often been hierarchical, patriarchal, and authoritarian, and not without elements of sexism, misogyny, homophobia, or racism, but at the same time has clearly and often indisputably emerged as an integrating force in society. Zambon’s critical review is a welcome correction in this regard. She commendably places soccer in its contemporary context and clarifies historical lines of development.”
— Jens Ljunggren, IdrottsforumLicense: CC BY-NC
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