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Machine generated contents note: ch. I Introduction and Background -- My Football Journey Begins -- Why Football Fandom? -- Methodological Framework -- Football Fandoms in Zimbabwe -- Structure of the Book -- ch. II Understanding the Processes of Becoming a Football Team Fan in an African Context: The Case of Dynamos Football Club Fans in Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- Brief Background of Dynamos Football Club -- Understanding Fandom: An International Perspective -- Defining a Fan in the Context of Present Research -- Process of Becoming a Fan among Dynamos Football Club Fans -- Group one (40 years and above) -- Group two (below 40 years) -- Explaining the process of becoming a fan -- a sociological analysis -- Socialization into a van -- Basking in reflected glory -- Structure-agency dichotomy -- Conclusion -- ch. III Till Death Do Us Part: Football as Part of Everyday Life Amongst Dynamos Football Club Fans in Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- Social Identity and Fan Identities -- Football and Social Identity -- Findings and Discussion -- Background to Dynamos Football Club -- Fandom as part of everyday life -- MuDembare: in group identities among Dynamos fans -- Conclusion -- ch. IV Football Rivalries in Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- Harare Derby: When the City Turns Blue or Green -- Battle of Zimbabwe: Football and Ethnicity In Dynamos versus Highlanders -- Mining Towns and Small Town Fan Identities -- Conclusion -- ch. V One of the Boys: Female Fans Responses to Masculine and Phallocentric Nature of Football Stadiums -- Introduction -- Patriarchal Nature of Fandom -- Women Fans From Across the World -- Findings and Discussion -- Singing with the boys: Women as active agents within stadiums -- We are here for the football: Forget about the singing -- Stadium is not for us: women who love football but forego the stadium -- Conclusion -- ch. VI Of Goals and Whores: Football Fandom and Misogynistic Songs at the Rufaro Stadium in Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- Football Chants and Songs: Global Vulgarity -- Songs and Language of the Stadium in Zimbabwe -- Symbols, Chants, Language and Behaviors of Stadium -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- ch. VII Creation and Meaning of Symbols among Dynamos Football Club Fans in Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- Symbolic Interactionism and the Creation of Meaning -- Symbols and Metaphors Used to Describe the Team -- Creation, Recreation and Meaning of Symbols: A Contested Enterprise -- Zora (Spread) Butter Phenomenon -- Rufaro Stadium: Spiritual Home for Dynamos Fans -- Conclusion -- ch. VIII Cyber-Fandoms in Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- Conceptual Framing of Online Fan Identities -- Organize in the Virtual and Meet in the Real: Facebook and Fan Groups -- Ethnicity and Football Identities -- Gender dimensions of online identities -- Online Fans as Imagined Communities -- Online Fan Identities as Globalized Identities -- Conclusion.

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