1st Edition

Fan Activism, Protest and Politics Ultras in Post-Socialist Croatia

By Andrew Hodges Copyright 2019
206 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In what sense can organized football fans be understood as political actors or participants in social movements? How do fan struggles link to wider social and political transformations? And what methodological dilemmas arise when researching fan activism? Fan Activism, Protest and Politics seeks ethnographic answers to these questions in a context – Zagreb, Croatia – shaped by the recent... Read more

Introduction: Football Fandom in the European Semi-Periphery

1. Football Fandom and Post-Socialist Transformation in Zagreb, Croatia: a Historical Sociology

2. Ethnography: Positionality, Approach, Methods

3. Everyday Fandom in Zagreb

4. Police Practices and Repression

5. Political Ideologies and the Fan Movement

6. Gender, Sexuality and Violence

7. Banter, Urban-Rural Hierarchies and Political Correctness

8. Fan Authenticity and International Networks

Conclusion: The ‘New’ Europe in Crisis?

 

Biography

Andrew Hodges is a social anthropologist working at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg, Germany. His main research interests include the anthropology and sociology of football fandom, minority language activism, and the politics of knowledge production. He has written extensively about left and progressive fan initiatives in Zagreb, Croatia, and about Croatian minority activist networks in Serbia, analyzing them both as social movements.