Ultras : The Passion and Performance of Contemporary Football Fandom Paperback / softback
by Mark Doidge, Radoslaw Kossakowski, Svenja-Maria Mintert
Part of the Manchester University Press series
Paperback / softback
Description
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. -- .
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:12/04/2022
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- ISBN:9781526163714
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:12/04/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781526163714
