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- Provides the first ever research-based monograph dedicated to an in-depth ethnography of fandom in one of the biggest countries in Eastern Europe
- Investigates the internal transformation of fan culture within the context of the post-transformation socio-political environment of contemporary Poland
- Based on an empirical study which features a number of examples, fragments of interviews with informants, and analysis - providing a multidimensional perspective on Polish fan culture
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book is the first comprehensive attempt to identify the deeper causes that have shaped contemporary behaviour patterns and motivations among football fans in Poland.
Fan culture in Poland has long been based on a distinctively grassroots, spontaneous movements that ruled out any cooperation with local authorities and sports organizations. The activity of supporter groups has regularly failed to meet the principles set by official bodies, intentionally breaching the moral and legal standards of the day.
Based on data derived from ethnographic fieldwork, content analysis of fan journals, magazines, social media and online forums, as well as a wide range of qualitative interviews conducted over the years, the book analyses the ways in which fandom culture in Poland has evolved: from its moderate beginnings in the shadows of a communist regime in the 1970’s, through the anomic, ‘uncivilized’ and pathological decade of the 1990’s,to the peculiar culture based on strong cohesion, capabilities of social mobilization and emerging 'resistance identity' in the 21st century.
It thus provides a detailed analysis of Polish fandom’s multi-dimensional structure, and will be of interest to students and academics interested in the growing field of football research, as well as those researching the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, or more generally in European Studies.
Authors and Affiliations
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Institute of Sociology, University of Gdańsk, Gdansk, Poland
Radosław Kossakowski
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hooligans, Ultras, Activists
Book Subtitle: Polish Football Fandom in Sociological Perspective
Authors: Radosław Kossakowski
Series Title: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56607-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56606-7Published: 31 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56609-8Published: 01 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56607-4Published: 30 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 249
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sport Science , Sociology of Culture, Popular Culture