Prelims

Steve Redhead (Flinders University, Australia)

Theoretical Times

ISBN: 978-1-78714-669-3, eISBN: 978-1-78714-668-6

Publication date: 20 November 2017

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Redhead, S. (2017), "Prelims", Theoretical Times, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xiii. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78714-668-620171008

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Copyright © Steve Redhead, 2018


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THEORETICAL TIMES

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THEORETICAL TIMES

BY

STEVE REDHEAD

Flinders University, Australia

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Also by Steve Redhead

Football and Accelerated Culture: This Modern Sporting Life

We Have Never Been Postmodern: Theory at the Speed of Light

The Jean Baudrillard Reader

Relocating the Leisure Society: Media, Consumption and Spaces (with Jayne Caudwell and Alan Tomlinson)

The Paul Virilio Reader

Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture

Repetitive Beat Generation

Subculture to Clubcultures: An Introduction to Popular Cultural Studies

The Clubcultures Reader: Readings in Popular Cultural Studies (with Derek Wynne and Justin O’Connor)

Post-Fandom and the Millennial Blues: The Transformation of Soccer Culture

Unpopular Cultures: The Birth of Law and Popular Culture

Rave Off: Politics and Deviance in Contemporary Youth Culture

The Passion and the Fashion: Football Fandom in the New Europe

Football with Attitude

The End-of-the-Century Party

Sing When You’re Winning: The Last Football Book

Dedication

This book is dedicated to the memory of my grandfathers.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to my wife Professor Tara Brabazon for all her love, brilliance, companionship and inspiration.

I would like also to thank all the people around the world who have given me very helpful feedback on ideas and concepts from the books which were also previously trailed in personal website blog posts, Facebook and Linkedin messages, Skype conversations, tweets, podcasts, seminars and vodcasts as well as multiple essays for journals and websites.

Finally, thanks to my editor Philippa Grand and all at Emerald Publishing.

Quotes

I really think we are living in very dangerous, interesting times … Today is the time for theory … There is hard work to be done. It is a unique task.

– Slavoj Žižek