Agergaard, Sine

Alber, Erdmute

Booth, Sara

Botelho, Vera

Claussen, Detlev

Darby, Paul

Engh, Mari

Liston, Katie

McCree, Roy

Mueller, Julianne

Nieland, Joerg-Uwe

Poli, Raffaele

Pfister, Gertrud

Rial, Carmen

Saavedra, Martha

Schaaf, Daniela

Schokkaert, Jeron

Spitaler, Georg

Tiesler, Nina Clara

Ungruhe, Christian

v. d. Meij, Nienke

Weedon, Gavin

Williams, Jean

Members

Department of Political Science
University of Vienna
Email: Georg.Spitaler@univie.ac.at
Study Groups: FM

Research area & expertise:

As a political scientist I am interested in intersections between politics and popular culture, especially sport, and political aspects of popular representative claims.

Current reasearch interests & projects:

• political theory,
• sport and populism,
• sport and racism,
• football and migration,
• football and masculinity
• football history

I am also on the editorial board of the Austrian football magazine ‘ballesterer’.
With Barbara Liegl I have conducted a research project on migration in Austrian professional football between 1945 and 2008 for the Austrian Science Fund FWF (2006-2008).

With Jakob Rosenberg I have recently conducted a research project on the history of Rapid Vienna Football Club during the Nazi-years (1938-45). http://fairplay.vidc.org/forschung/migration/

Interview with Barbara Liegl and Georg Spitaler on their project findings: http://sciencev1.orf.at/science/news/151264

In 2009-2010 I have coordinated a comparative report on ‘Racism and Ethnic Discrimination in Sport in the EU and preventive initiatives’, commissioned by the European Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA). The FRA’s comparative report on ‘Racism and Ethnic Discrimination in Sport in the EU and preventive initiatives’ (2010) can be downloaded here:
http://www.fra.europa.eu/fraWebsite/news_and_events/infocus10_2810-new_en.htm

In 2008-09 I have done research on the fate of the Viennese Jewish Sports Club Hakoah’s inter-war football champions (with David Forster).

Selected publications:

Books

2011 | Grün-weiß unterm Hakenkreuz. Der Sportklub Rapid im Nationalsozialismus (1938-1945), Vienna: DÖW/SK Rapid, with Jakob Rosenberg, Domenico Jacono, Gerald Pichler

2008 | Legionäre am Ball. Migration im österreichischen Fußball nach 1945, Vienna: Braumüller, with Barbara Liegl

Books editor

2012 | Governance, Citizenship and the New European Football Championships: The European Spectacle, London/New York: Routledge, with Wolfram Manzenreiter

2006 | Arena der Männlichkeit. Über das Verhältnis von Fußball und Geschlecht, Frankfurt/M.: Campus, with Eva Kreisky

Peer reviewed journals: guest editor

2010 | SOCCER & SOCIETY special issue (Taylor & Francis), Vol. 11, No. 6, Governance, Citizenship and the New European Football Championships: The European Spectacle, with Wolfram Manzenreiter.

Chapter in book:
2009 | Die Fußballmeister. Lebenswege der Hakoah-Spieler der Zwischenkriegszeit, in: Betz, Susanne Helene/Löscher, Monika/Schölnberger, Pia (eds.) „…mehr als ein Sportverein“. 100 Jahre Hakoah Wien 1909-2009, Innsbruck/Vienna/Bozen, 114-130, with David Forster

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