2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 11: Sports Spectatorship and Fandom 1

7 Jun 2022, 15:00

Description

Chair: Fabien Ohl
Room: VBN3, Building HZM Basement

36. Aida, Guantanamera and Disco-Polo: On Genesis of Football Chants of Legia Warszawa Fans

Seweryn Dmowski

07/06/2022, 15:00

The subject of the paper is the genesis of football chants sung by Legia Warszawa fans. The author attempts to reconstruct the process of creating these chants and to identify the cultural inspirations that accompany this process.
So far football chants have been considered by social sciences and humanities mainly through the prism of selected textual motifs, most of the published works have...

35. Alcohol Consumption in Football Supporter Cultures: A Participatory Ethnographic Study of Fans in Scotland and England

Comille Bandura, Richard Purves, Richard Giulianotti, Jack Martin, Kate Hunt, Angus Bancroft, Stephen Murrow

07/06/2022, 15:20

This paper explores the role of alcohol consumption for football supporters attending matches in Scotland and England; the implications of current alcohol restrictions for fan practices; and the broader exposure of fans to alcohol sponsorship and marketing in a naturalistic real-world setting. The study utilises participatory ethnographic research methods to yield rich data on contexts, forms,...

37. Researching football fans: A framework for analysis

Maciej Górecki, Seweryn Dmowski, Radosław Kossakowski

07/06/2022, 15:40

The subject of this article is the theoretical and methodological framework of researching the fans’ perception of football rivalries. We attempt to elaborate the optimum and reliable method of investigating football fans in a wide scope and from an international comparative perspective. Despite numerous examples of both qualitative and quantitative research on football fans all around the...

34. Women’s Football Fandom in Ireland: Issues and Challenges

Payam Ansari, Gary Sinclair

There is little empirical research on women’s football (WF) fandom in the literature. A better understanding of WF fandom serves to meaningfully engage fans, ultimately utilising it to the benefit of the sport and its stakeholders to develop social and commercial opportunities. In Ireland, and many other countries, the study of sport has been a ‘male preserve’, and women’s sports has been...