Chapter 3 Football fandom in Cluj: Class, ethno-nationalism and Cosmopolitanism

Double devaluations: Class, value and the rise of the right in the Global North

“…Budapest was obviously a rich intellectual and geographic focal point for the contradictions of neoliberal globalization in Europe, so much so that CEU would subsequently be expelled from a transformed Hungary gripped by a violently assertive neo‐nationalist politics. We shared a critical attitude towards the neoliberal transformations that were working themselves out, piecemeal, incrementally, over a longer period of time, in the sites in Eastern and Western Europe that we were studying: Post‐socialist Györ (Bartha, 2011), Cluj (Faje, 2011; Petrovici, 2011), Wroclaw (Kalb, 2009) and Kikinda (Vetta, 2011) were simultaneously generating right‐wing popular sensibilities and political articulations before our very eyes, embodied variously in neo‐nationalist movements, right‐wing labour unions or (proto‐)party formations. The Marche shoe industrial district (Blim, 2011) and the industrious Alpine regions of northern Italy (Stacul, 2011) were not different.…”