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Football Hooligans: Knowing the Score: Explorations in Anthropology

Autor Gary Armstrong
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2003
This book examines how groups of young male fans come to be defined and identified as football `hooligans and challenges the assumption that violence is wholly central to the match-day experience for these supporters. Rather, the creation of identity is at the root of hooliganism, with all the cultural values and rituals, codes of honour and shame, and communal patterns of behaviour and consumption that accompany it. The author locates hooliganism historically within the milieu of an industrial working class culture and examines ideas of performance and ritual encompassed in idealized masculinity. The book is based on a decades in-depth study of the `Blades, a group of football fans supporting Sheffield United, who are notorious for their hooliganism. It contributes to the debate on football hooliganism by challenging many traditionally-held notions of hooliganism and by providing the first anthropological study of football violence. The book also debunks the myth that violence between football fans is organized by `generals operating within hierarchically structured groups. Falsehoods such as this, it is argued, are advanced to augment the powers of the police and media in redefining and controlling particular groups of individuals whose behaviour does not fit easily within increasingly constrictive codes of social conduct. This book represents essential reading not only for undergraduates of social anthropology, sociology and criminology but also for the general reader with an interest in football culture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781859739570
ISBN-10: 1859739571
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: illustrations, bibliography, index
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:First.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Berg Publishers
Seria Explorations in Anthropology

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Also available in hardback, 9781859739525 £55.00 (January, 1998)

Notă biografică

Gary Armstrong Lectures in the Department of Sport Science, Brunel University

Recenzii

This is an intelligently-argued book. If you thought football stands were full of middle-class Hornby-ites congratulating each other on their second car and their commuter-belt homes, then think again. Armstrong makes it clear that hooliganism is still going strong.
An intelligently-argued book.
[Armstrong's] conclusions synthesize and expand other explanations; the result is a more holistic, informed interpretation. . . The monograph's selection for a Guggenheim Foundation Award for Studies on Aggression and Violence attests to its thoroughness and the importance of this perspective. The descriptions and analysis are skilfully crafted. Armstrong's blending of empirical data and theoretical interpretations raise the debate on hooliganism and will provoke further study.