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Putting the city on the map: a social history of football in Trabzon to 1967

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dc.contributor Graduate Program in Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History.
dc.contributor.advisor Kırlı, Cengiz.
dc.contributor.author Tunç, Sevecen.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-10-22T04:19:50Z
dc.date.available 2023-10-22T04:19:50Z
dc.date.issued 2009.
dc.identifier.other HTR 2009 T86
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/20056
dc.description.abstract This study, exploring the social history of football in Trabzon, seeks the roots of the identification of the city with football in the period before the establishment of the city club Trabzonspor. Unlike the popular history accounts of sport in Trabzon, this thessis analyzes the development of football in the city by taking into account other social and economic dynamics. The thesis argues that the social meaning of football as a middle-class activity before the 1950s and as a popular mass sport after the 1950s for Trabzon has possessed a persistent character. In line with this, it is argued that the social function attributed to the game is closely bound up with the socio-economic position of Trabzon. Football, since its early inception in the 1920s, has been a means of the cultural expression of the city at the national level. Trabzon as a city experiencing a sharp decline in its former preeminence has instrumentalized football to restore its hurt “civic pride”. Therefore, football did not only functioned just as a sport, a game or a recreational activity, but it also acquired an important role of carrying the city onto the national agenda. In this context, this study aims to shed light both on the history of football in Trabzon and on the history of the city itsef.
dc.format.extent 30cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University.Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2009.
dc.relation Includes appendices.
dc.relation Includes appendices.
dc.subject.lcsh Football -- Turkey -- History.
dc.subject.lcsh Soccer -- Social aspects -- Turkey.
dc.title Putting the city on the map: a social history of football in Trabzon to 1967
dc.format.pages viii, 132 leaves;


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