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Football Fandom and Migration

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This chapter serves as an introductory chapter to become familiar with the state of the art in the field of anthropological and sociological football fan research with regard to discourses on migration, gender and transnationality. It specifically discusses literature on and about these frameworks due to the fact that these are the central aspects of this research on football fandom. In a second step, central theoretical concepts for this project will be clarified, critically discussed and defined for the use in this ethnographic study. This particularly concerns concepts and theories of migration and related socially constructed categories. This reflection includes an introduction to the concept of intersectionality and its value for the analysis of ethnographic fieldwork.

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  1. 1.

    The literary review does neither seek to be a comprehensive overview of football fan literature nor of ethnographic approaches to fan cultures or to Turkish-Austrian migration. It instead aims to highlight the crossings where these three threads meet. The literary review furthermore particularly discusses the works that have deeply impacted the underlying research by either having added valuable perspectives to the topic or by helping to dismiss a certain approach. Since this book is institutionally, methodologically and theoretically affiliated with the discipline of the German-speaking European Ethnology, I will particularly also discuss research that stems from this academic strand.

  2. 2.

    One of Richard Giulianotti’s articles (2002) on football fandom pays special attention to the categorisation of supporters. By dividing them in ‘supporters’, ‘followers’, ‘fans’, and ‘flaneurs’, he offers a framework for the understanding of different spectator types. His approach, however, neglects the situational and contextual notion of fan practices and is therefore not entirely helpful to this anthropological study.

  3. 3.

    A major argument of Honneth’s theory is that every single individual experiences ‘disrespect’; it is not specific to migrant contexts (Honneth 1990, 1992, 1996).

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    Binder and Hess (2011) offer a comprehensive overview of this problem in recent research.

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Szogs, N. (2017). Approaching the Field. In: Football Fandom and Migration. Football Research in an Enlarged Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50944-0_2

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