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Ultras: The Passion and Performance of Contemporary Football Fandom

Hardback

Main Details

Title Ultras: The Passion and Performance of Contemporary Football Fandom
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Mark Doidge
By (author) Radoslaw Kossakowski
By (author) Svenja-Maria Mintert
SeriesManchester University Press
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:232
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreSporting events, tours and organisations
Soccer (football)
ISBN/Barcode 9781526127624
ClassificationsDewey:796.334
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 31 January 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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 -- .

Reviews

'Ultras The passion and performance of contemporary football fandom by Mark Doidge, Radoslaw Kossakowski & Svenja Mintert sheds light on the very complex subculture of ultras, which makes it a highly welcome addition to the existing sociological studies on ultras and football fandom. ' idrotts forum -- .