Mark Doidge, Radoslaw Kossakowski, Svenja-Maria Mintert

Ultras (eBook, ePUB)

The passion and performance of contemporary football fandom

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since its emergence in Italy in 1968, one model of football fandom has become the most dominant in the world: the ultras. Producing complex choreography, chants, banners and pyrotechnics, ultras represent a highly organised style of fandom that has an increasing global reach and visibility. Over the last fifty years, ultras fandom has spread from Southern Europe across North Africa to Northern and Eastern Europe, South East Asia and North America. Their collective performance, unity and harmonisation not only distinguish ultras from other football fans, but from many other forms of group behaviour. By focusing on the common form of expression through the performance of choreographies, chants and sustained support throughout the match, this book shows how members build an emotional attachment to their club that valorises the colours and symbols of that team while mobilising members against opponents. This volume seeks to make a clear theoretical shift in studies of football fandom by asking fundamental sociological questions concerning group formation, collective performance and emotional relationships. As a collective that pride themselves on having a shared, coherent sense of identity based on an act of consumption, ultras represent an important site of enquiry into masculinity and nationalism in contemporary society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526127648
• Artikelnr.: 58597104

Autorenporträt

Mark Doidge, Radoslaw Kossakowski & Svenja Mintert

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 The ultras' performance 2 It's only a game? Centralising
emotions in football fandom 3 The formation of the ultras 4 Social media as
a space of continuous performance 5 Ultras and the performance of gender 6
Violence and the world of the ultras 7 Ultras and politics The ultras: a
conclusion References Index