Professional Fights, Pacts and Ways of Conduct: The Hermetic World of Polish Hooligans
This chapter reveals the ambiguous image of Polish hooligan groups. Due to ‘functional differentiation’ in the world of fandom, they have become more professionalized and focused on their own activity. Many hooligans engage in arranged fights which take p
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Hooligans, Ultras, Activists Polish Football Fandom in Sociological Perspective Radosław Kossakowski
Football Research in an Enlarged Europe
Series Editors Albrecht Sonntag ESSCA School of Management EU-Asia Institute Angers, France Dàvid Ranc ESSCA School of Management EU-Asia Institute Angers, France
This series publishes monographs and edited collections in collaboration with a major EU-funded FP7 research project ‘FREE’: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe. The series aims to establish Football Studies as a worthwhile, intellectual and pedagogical activity of academic significance and will act as a home for the burgeoning area of contemporary Football scholarship. The themes covered by the series in relation to football include, European identity, memory, women, governance, history, the media, sports mega-events, business and management, culture, spectatorship and space and place. The series is highly interdisciplinary and transnational and the first of its kind to map state-of-the-art academic research on one of the world’s largest, most supported and most debated socio- cultural phenomenona. Editorial Board Richard Giulianotti (Loughborough University, UK) Kay Schiller (Durham University, UK) Geoff Pearson (Liverpool University, UK) Jürgen Mittag (German Sport University Cologne, Germany) Stacey Pope (Durham University, UK) Peter Millward (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) Geoff Hare (Newcastle University, UK) Arne Niemann (Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany) David Goldblatt (Sports writer and broadcaster, UK) Patrick Mignon (National Institute for Sports and Physical Education, France). More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14987
Radosław Kossakowski
Hooligans, Ultras, Activists Polish Football Fandom in Sociological Perspective
Radosław Kossakowski Institute of Sociology University of Gdan´sk Gdansk, Poland
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