The Left and the Rest? Fan Solidarities and Cosmologies – Celtic’s Green Brigade and Dinamo Zagreb’s Bad Blue Boys Cover Image

The Left and the Rest? Fan Solidarities and Cosmologies – Celtic’s Green Brigade and Dinamo Zagreb’s Bad Blue Boys
The Left and the Rest? Fan Solidarities and Cosmologies – Celtic’s Green Brigade and Dinamo Zagreb’s Bad Blue Boys

Author(s): Andrew Hodges
Subject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Sports Studies
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: Football; ultras; fan solidarities; cosmology

Summary/Abstract: Through examining ethnographic material alongside a forum discussion on the website ultrastifo, this paper relates fan solidarities occasionally asserted between certain members of Green Brigade (Celtic FC) and the Bad Blue Boys (NK Dinamo Zagreb) to what I term fan cosmologies. I first describe my theoretical positioning with respect to fan activist groups and initiatives, before making some notes concerning the two fan groups’ political contexts. I then consider the empirical material, concluding with a brief discussion of fan cosmologies as an approach to studying football fan groups anthropologically.

  • Issue Year: LXIV/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 303-319
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English