Doing Fandom

Doing Fandom presents a body of knowledge essential to football fandom research, and the study of gender, space, emotions and culture more generally. The analytical framework follows the theory of practice, drawing on three acclaimed sociological concepts to expand current scholarship on fandom: habitus, doing gender, and claiming the right to space.
The authors apply these perspectives to interrogate the development, performative and experiential aspects of fandom, and inform analysis of fans' social and political activism beyond the stadium.
Drawing on several case studies conducted among fans in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, the anthology provides substantial insight into the construction of fandom, and will be invaluable for students and scholars across sociology, anthropology of sport, and cultural studies.

Based on ethnographic research projects in the Middle East and Europe Looks at the acquisition, gendering and embodiment of fandom Analyses the intersections of doing fandom and doing gender, passing, and grass roots political activism

Autorentext

Tamar Rapoport is Professor Emerita of Cultural and Educational Sociology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Klappentext

Doing Fandom presents a body of knowledge essential to football fandom research, and the study of gender, space, emotions and culture more generally. The analytical framework follows the theory of practice, drawing on three acclaimed sociological concepts to expand current scholarship on fandom: habitus, doing gender, and claiming the right to space. The authors apply these perspectives to interrogate the development, performative and experiential aspects of fandom, and inform analysis of fans' social and political activism beyond the stadium. Drawing on several case studies conducted among fans in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, the anthology provides substantial insight into the construction of fandom, and will be invaluable for students and scholars across sociology, anthropology of sport, and cultural studies.

Inhalt

1. An Analytical Framework for Investigating Fandom; Tamar Rapoport.- Part 1: The Genesis of Doing Fandom.- 2. How Children Become Fans Learning fandom via the Cody; Tali Friedman, Tamar Rapoport.- 3. A Fan's Emotional Pendulum; Tali Friedman.- 4. Contesting Love Through Commodification: Soccer Fans, Affect, and Social Class in Turkey; Yagmur Nuhrat.- Part 2: The Gendering of Fandom.- 5. Each "Woman Fan" Has Her Own Story: Three Fandom Autoethnographies; Tamar Rapoport, Efrat Noy.- 6. Women Do Fandom Their Way; Tamar Rapoport, Daniel Regev.- 7. Fair to Swear? Gendered Formulations of Fairness in Football in Turkey; Yagmur Nuhrat.- 8. Threatened Masculinities Marginalise Women in Israeli Football; Tamir Sorek.- Part 3: Claiming a Foothold in Spaces beyond the Stadium.- 9. "Representing HaPoel, Not Israel": Hapoel Tel Aviv Fans Alternate Between Local and National Identifications; Daniel Regev.- 10. Saving Red Flora: The Political Mobilisations of Sankt Pauli Fans; Roy Siny.- 11. Football Arenas in the Middle East and North Africa: Battlegrounds for Political Control; James B. Dorsey.