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Purity and danger: policing the Italian Neo-Fascist football UltraS
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Abstract The rise of the Far-Right in Europe over the past decade has attracted the attention of both academics and police. Popular sports tend to reflect societal trends so it is not bizarre that a popular European cultural practice such as football has seen a rise in supporters with neo-fascist sympathies.... mehr
The rise of the Far-Right in Europe over the past decade has attracted the attention of both academics and police. Popular sports tend to reflect societal trends so it is not bizarre that a popular European cultural practice such as football has seen a rise in supporters with neo-fascist sympathies. Football (Soccer in the USA), specifically in Italy, has been linked since the beginning to politics (Porro, 2001;2008) and its stadiums have always been one of the most efficient public Agorá for the socialization of the Italian youth. In recent years, together with an ideologisation of the football terraces, there has been a noticeable increase in conflict between hardcore Football supporters and the Italian police at and around the stadium. These conflicts often involve the UltraS as the main participants. The final capital S identifies neo-fascist oriented fans, distinguishing them from mainstream hardcore Football supporters, known as ultrá (Testa and Armstrong 2008; Testa 2009; Testa and Armstrong 2010). This paper is the result of ethnographic research lasting six years (2003 to 2009). The research aimed to investigate the world of the UltraS by using two notorious national and international UltraS as case study. The groups, the Boys and the Irriducibili, support the AS Roma and SS Lazio, respectively. Both are located in the Italian capital city of Rome. The present paper aims to investigate the relationship between the neo-fascist UltraS and the institutions that they identify as their enemies namely the Italian State and the police.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Fan; Fußball; politische Rechte; Hooligan; Gesetzgebung; Prävention; Gewalt; Italien; Neofaschismus; Polizei; Radikalismus
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freizeitforschung, Freizeitsoziologie
soziale Probleme
Freie Schlagwörter
UltraS; Anti-UltraS Legislation
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2010
Seitenangabe
S. 219-237
Zeitschriftentitel
Criminal Justice Studies: a Critical Journal of Crime, Law and Society, 23 (2010) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/1478601X.2010.502345
ISSN
1478-601X
Status
Preprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)