CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Loncar, Karlo |
|---|---|
| Title | "When Injustice becomes the Law, Resistance becomes a Duty!" Hooligans, Political Extremists or a Social Movement: Case Study of Croatian Football Fandom |
| Summary | The main research goal of the thesis is to explore if Croatian football fandom through its contention with Croatian Football Federation (HNS) developed and established itself as a social movement and an important social actor in Croatian society, thereby transcending the usual labels that the fandom has been attributed with, such as hooligans, political extremists or thugs. To properly address the research goal, the thesis implements a combination of research methods, primarily focusing on the qualitative method of semi-structured in-depth expert interviews, which the thesis complements with discourse analysis, historical analysis, and narrative analysis. With the help from the data acquired through seven expert interviews conducted during fieldwork in Croatia in April 2017, the thesis managed to confirm that Croatian football fandom does develop through its contention with Croatian Football Federation as a social movement. Also, the thesis managed to find out that the fandom as a social movement uses a variety conventional and unconventional means of contention to articulate its claims, such as protests, boycotts, specialized associations to more unconventional means such as instrumentalization of hooliganism and nationalism. Considering this, Croatian football fandom develops as a fluid, heterogeneous and flexible social movement. |
| Supervisor | Pap, András László |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/loncar_karlo.pdf |
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