Black chicken, white chicken: patriotism, morality and the aesthetics of fandom in the 2008 African Cup of Nations in Ghana<sup>1</sup>

Fumanti, Mattia

doi:10.1080/14660970.2012.640506

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“….spectatorship transforms the sports ground from an institutionally defined space into a space where agents can practise their politics of identity and allegiance” (Fletcher, 2012: 622). Other studies on fandom also identified how spectatorship and allegiance to different teams (whether professional or nation-state specific) allowed for opportunities to build a diaspora collective community and identity (Burdsey, 2006; Davis and Upson, 2004; Fumanti, 2012; Kraszewski, 2008).…”

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“…Various studies, using Brah’s (1996) conceptualization of diaspora space, explored how diasporic imagined communities are created (Joseph, 2011, 2014) and how diaspora identities are constructed through the use of sport events, competitions, and fandom (Fumanti, 2012; Kraszewski, 2008; Whigham, 2015). For example, Spaaij and Broerse (2019) examined the embodied practices of Somali migrants in community sport events that make diasporic imaginations tangible (i.e.…”

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The “diaspora” diaspora in sport? A systematic literature review of empirical studies

McSweeney

Nakamura

2019

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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The study and application of the concept of diaspora has grown from its original references to a particular group to encapsulate any individual or group living in a collective community. In the sociological study of sport, diaspora is applied in innovative but potentially problematic ways insofar as the concept of “diaspora” may lose its conceptual and theoretical roots. Given this – as well as the call for greater scholarly examination of diaspora and sport – this article offers a systematic literature review on studies concerned with diaspora and sport. Specifically, we critically discuss: (1) How was diaspora conceptualized? (2) What populations were studied and in what context? (3) How was diaspora examined (i.e. methodology)? (4) What were the results of the study (i.e. main findings and discussion)? In conclusion, we offer theoretical and conceptual dialogue and questions about the future study of diaspora and sport, as well as the application of the term diaspora to dispersed groups in sport contexts.

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The “diaspora” diaspora in sport? A systematic literature review of empirical studies

McSweeney

Nakamura

2019

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…Део организације датог тамичења представљали су, одатле, медијски едукативни утицаји на домаћу публику да навијање за свој тим не пређе границу према ниподаштавању и вређању противника, а поготово да страсти изазване фудбалским такмичењем остану у фудбалским контекстима -на стадионима и око њих, те током оних дана у којима се играју утакмице. Полазиште таквих акција била је идеја да, ако фудбал представља оно најбоље што има Гана, онда и све везано за представљање тог фудбала свету треба да буде најбоље (Fumanti 2012).…”

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The Anthropology of Football

Kovačević¹,

Žikić²

2014

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Anthropological interest in football has been on the rise since the beginning of the century, which can be attested to by the rising number of studies, papers, collective publications and scientific conferences on the topic. Seeing as anthropology is no longer the study of the culturally bizarre and exotic, it is clear that the first anthropological studies of football as a cultural phenomenon are linked to those environments in which football figures as an important cultural trait, which is the reason why this sub discipline thrived in Europe or in places where football was treated as an esoteric phenomenon and where there as a longer tradition of anthropological study of native cultures. From the first analogies between the game of football and its rules with rituals of so called primitive cultures, the anthropological study of football developed into a relatively encompassing approach which includes interest in all the actors who establish the game as a public, cultural good – players, experts, supporters, journalists, organizers etc. – as well as its various cultural manifestations, in the form of a tool for the construction of identity and cultural symbol, a leisure activity with ties to economy, to a specific apotheosis of the concepts of globalization and commodification of culture. Anthropological studies of football are present in Serbia as well, and their subject matter corresponds to the role and position held by football, as a cultural artefact, in Serbian society and other countries in the region.

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“…Broadly speaking, studies on African fandom have focused on Nigeria (Adetunji, 2010), South Africa (Fletcher, 2010), Ghana (Fumanti, 2012), Zambia (Komakoma, 2005), and Zimbabwe (Manase, 2011). Studies specific to African fandom of the EPL (via satellite television) have generally submitted that these fans identify mainly with consistently successful teams (Adetunji, 2010; Komakoma, 2005).…”

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A discursive construction of teasing in football fandom: The context of the South-Western Nigerian viewing center

Adetunji

2013

Discourse & Society

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Previous research on the linguistics of football fandom has said little on the value of teasing in this popular public space. This qualitative study, however, highlights the discourse of teasing as realized by Nigerian fans of the English Premier League (EPL), from a pragmatic perspective. In all, 12 teases or teasing expressions, ascribed three judgmental values – positive, neutral, and negative – as assigned by both the teaser and the teased are identified and analyzed. It is discovered that when other-directed, the tease is usually either neutral or negative, but when self-directed, the tease is either neutral or positive. First, I observe that fans often use a tease when their team is in a position of advantage. Second, the teaser–target relationship is ever-fluid: the teasers could become the targets at any time during the course of a match, depending on the in situ performance of the teams playing the game. I argue that despite the face threats expressed by most of the teases, the performance of teasing in this fandom is essentially face-supportive, since the fans, on the whole, enjoyed the teases, and forgot about or discountenanced them almost as soon as the game was over. I also submit that the context of football fandom in the viewing center is mainly a macro-level instantiation of ‘jocular mockery’, more of relational connectedness than separateness, since the fans usually remain friends/acquaintances after each game and would return, sooner or later, to watch and tease one another during another game.

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Black chicken, white chicken: patriotism, morality and the aesthetics of fandom in the 2008 African Cup of Nations in Ghana¹

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

The “diaspora” diaspora in sport? A systematic literature review of empirical studies

The “diaspora” diaspora in sport? A systematic literature review of empirical studies

The Anthropology of Football

A discursive construction of teasing in football fandom: The context of the South-Western Nigerian viewing center

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Black chicken, white chicken: patriotism, morality and the aesthetics of fandom in the 2008 African Cup of Nations in Ghana1

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The “diaspora” diaspora in sport? A systematic literature review of empirical studies

The “diaspora” diaspora in sport? A systematic literature review of empirical studies

The Anthropology of Football

A discursive construction of teasing in football fandom: The context of the South-Western Nigerian viewing center

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