Ultras : the passion and performance of contemporary football fandom / Mark Doidge, Radosław Kossakowski and Svenja Mintert.
Ultras have become the most dominant style of football fandom in the world having spread from Southern Europe across North Africa to Northern and Eastern Europe, SE Asia and North America. This book argues that ultras are an important site of enquiry into understanding contemporary society. They are...
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2020.
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Table of Contents:
- 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