Naslov
Carnival fans and hooligans within the ultras subculture: notes from the field in Croatia

Autori
Perasović, Benjamin ; Mustapić, Marko

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
European Association for Sociology of Sport - Conference 2014: Book of Abstracts - Changing Landscapes in Sport: dynamics, hybridities and resistance / Hannu Itkonen ; Remco Hoekman - Utrecht : Mulier Institut - centre for research on sports and society ; Universitet Utrecht ; European Association for Sociology of Sport, 2014, 75-75

Skup
EASS 2014 - Changing Landscapes in Sport: dynamics, hybridities and resistance

Mjesto i datum
Utrecht, Nizozemska, 07.05.2014. - 10.05.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
football; carnival fans; hooligans; Torcida; Croatia

Sažetak
This paper is based on sociological research on Torcida, football supporters of Hajduk football club from Split, Croatia. We used ethnographic method (19 months of fieldwork, 91 extensive diaries and 21 in-depth interviews with hard core members of Torcida).The research has been carried out as a part of large international EU funded FP7 project ‘MYPLACE’. Although there were some signs of ethnographic and qualitative approaches in the 1970s and through the 1980s (Marsh et al. 1978, Williams, Dunning and Murphy 1989), there have been many more ethnographic and other qualitative insights into the world of football supporters in the last two decades (Giulianotti 1991, 1995, Armstrong 1998, Brown 1993, King 2003, Millward 2006, Spaaij 2006, Stott and Pearson 2007, Testa 2009, Pearson 2012). The notion of subculture, rejected by the ‘post-subculturalists’ in the 1990s, has survived in recent studies on football supporters. For example, Pearson (2012) argues that ‘carnival fans’ are a distinct subculture within the wider body of football fans. Giulianotti (1991, 1995) uses the term ‘carnival’ earlier and in a slightly different way in his description of the behaviour of the Scottish ‘Tartan Army’. The activity of carnival fans was regulated by the system and absolutely excluded violence. However, carnivalesque includes the transgression of norms and could include violence as well. In our study, research has shown that the borders between ‘carnival fans’ and ‘hooligans’ are less strict than in Pearson’s study, and significantly less strict than in Giulianotti’s approach. Thus, it has been argued here that, as a social actor, Torcida is most appropriately understood as an ultras subculture.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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