Let's Kick Racism Out of Football— and the Lefties Too!: Responses to Lee Bowyer on a West Ham  

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Ruddock, Andy

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Sport and Social Issues vol. 29 no. 4 (Nov. 2005), page 369-385.
Topik: cultural citizenship; fans; football; pleasure; populism; racism; resistance
Fulltext: 369.pdf (118.06KB)

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This article examines how the empirical study of football fans can inform contemporary debates in critical audience research, particularly around issues of pleasure and cultural citizenship. In January 2003, West Ham United signs Lee Bowyer; a controversial move, given the accusations of racism surrounding the player. Although football is often championed as a potent arena for debate and negotiation in cultural politics, Web-based responses to Bowyer amongWestHamfans demonstrate how these issues can be subordinated within essentially conservative discourses of belonging. This is due, in part, to structural similarities between fandom and populism, stressing negative modes of identification and desire to return to a mythic past. Consequently, pleasure and politics coexist but do not meet in a West Ham supporting vernacular that has little to say about racism.

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