The left and the rest? Fan cosmologies and relationships between Celtic’s Green Brigade and Dinamo Zagreb’s Bad Blue Boys | Zendy

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The left and the rest? Fan cosmologies and relationships between Celtic’s Green Brigade and Dinamo Zagreb’s Bad Blue Boys

Author(s) -

Andrew Hodges

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

glasnik etnografskog instituta

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2334-8259

pISSN - 0350-0861

DOI - 10.2298/gei1602305h

Subject(s) - celtic languages , football , politics , rest (music) , term (time) , history , sociology , political science , law , ancient history , archaeology , physics , quantum mechanics , acoustics

Through examining ethnographic material alongside a forum discussion on the website ultrastifo, this paper relates fan solidarities occasionally asserted between certain members of Green Brigade (Celtic FC) and the Bad Blue Boys (NK Dinamo Zagreb) to what I term fan cosmologies. I first describe my theoretical positioning with respect to fan activist groups and initiatives, before making some notes concerning the two fan groups’ political contexts. I then consider the empirical material, concluding with a brief discussion of fan cosmologies as an approach to studying football fan groups anthropologically

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