All the hot, sweaty bodies collapsed domino-like onto the searing heat of the concrete stand.
The home team, Livorno, had just scored against Pisa, their hated local rivals. The joy …

Given the contemporary growth of 'populist'political parties and movements in a number of
highly developed democratic states in Europe and North America, there has been a …

The article explores the intersection between politics and football focusing on political
activism in football fandom starting from its origin in late 1970s to the contemporary mass …

This article used a critical sampling approach to investigate a series of football forums which
respond to and discuss racism and Islamophobia. A thematic analysis of 1,064 forum posts …

How has football hooliganism in England, largely, been successfully managed or displaced
over the past 30 years, while violence and disorder caused by sections of the ultras …

Rationale: Despite the extant literature on sport fandom and the prevalence of corruption in
sport, fans' responses to it remain widely understudied. This study focuses on fans and …

This book employs men's football as a lens through which to investigate questions relating to
immigration, racism, integration and national identity in present-day Sweden. Specifically …

There is currently a lack of sociological research surrounding the analysis of discriminatory
memes on social media, with it appearing that their usage now has a home online, often …

Purpose Recently, efforts to fight discriminatory behaviour in many sports and to eliminate
racial preferences among fans have intensified. However, uncovering discriminatory …

Community participation is increasingly advocated as a promising approach to cultural
heritage management. One of the main justifications for doing so is to challenge the …