Ultras: The Passion and Performance of Contemporary Football Fandom - Couverture souple

Doidge, Mark; Kossakowski, Radoslaw; Mintert, Svenja-Maria

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1526163713 ISBN 13 : 9781526163714

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Since its emergence in Italy in 1968, one model of football fandom has become the most dominant in the world: the ultras. Producing 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 not only distinguishes ultras from other football fans, but from many other forms of group behaviour. Focusing on their common form of expression, this book shows how members build an emotional attachment to their club that valorises the insignia of that team while mobilising members against opponents. As a collective with 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mark Doidge is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Brighton

Radoslaw Kossakowski is Assistant Professor at the University of Gdansk

Svenja-Maria Mintert is Professor for Business and Sports Marketing at the Fresenius University in Hamburg

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1526163713
• ISBN 13: 9781526163714
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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