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Doing Fandom
Tamar Rapoport Editor
Doing Fandom Lessons from Football in Gender, Emotions, Space
Editor Tamar Rapoport The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel All chapters originally authored in Hebrew were translated into English and edited for the present anthology by Hadas Rin, [email protected].
ISBN 978-3-030-46869-9 ISBN 978-3-030-46870-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46870-5
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Preface: A Woman Researcher’s Journey into Fandom
I had never been to a football match until one Friday afternoon in October 2007 when I attended my first Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem FC1 game. I went at the urging of a close friend who had told me that something interesting had happened in Jerusalem during my yearlong absence for academic work outside Israel—the first fan-owned football club in Israel had formed. “With your interest in feminism, social movements and change, you need to have a look.” “I will think about it,” I responded hesitantly, yet, being curious, I went to the first football match of my life and was immediately captivated by the festive, embracing atmosphere in the stands, the red flags and the club emblem depicting “the Hammer and the Sickle”, the old socialist symbol that represents the social, democratic, non-nationalistic values of the club. The fans’ red banners and singing resonated deeply, aroused pleasant, significant memories and conjured up my adolescence in the socialist youth movement, the idealistic kib
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