Ultras - The Passion and Performance of Contemporary Football Fandom

Ultras are the most prominent form of football fandom in the 21st century, from their origins in Italy in the 1960s, this style of fandom has spread across Europe and then across the globe. This book provides the first European-wide monograph on the ultras phenomenon.

List 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

About the author

Mark Doidge is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Brighton

Radoslaw Kossakowski is Assistant Professor at the University of Gdansk

Svenja-Maria Mintert is Professor for Business and Sports Marketing at the Fresenius University in Hamburg

Summary

Ultras are the most prominent form of football fandom in the 21st century, from their origins in Italy in the 1960s, this style of fandom has spread across Europe and then across the globe. This book provides the first European-wide monograph on the ultras phenomenon. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Mark Doidge, Mark Kossakowski Doidge, Rados¿aw Kossakowski, Radoslaw Kossakowski, Svenja-Maria Mintert
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781526127624
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2762-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Manchester University Press
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Miscellaneous; Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Fussball, Europa, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Sport: Veranstaltungen und Event Management