Sports Fans and Fan Culture: A Critical Reflection on Fandom as Communicative Leisure in a Commodified World

Spracklen, Karl

doi:10.1007/s41978-021-00093-4

Int J Sociol Leis

2021

DOI: 10.1007/s41978-021-00093-4

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Sports Fans and Fan Culture: A Critical Reflection on Fandom as Communicative Leisure in a Commodified World

Karl Spracklen

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“…With regard more specifically to fans and the studies focused in the scoping review on this aspect of NASCAR, the results analyzed and the conclusions drawn concur with Spracklen (2021) that "being a sports fan is to be a part of an elective community. You choose to be in it, and others judge your belonging by your actions.…”

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Nascar and tourism : Analyses based on a scoping review of the literature

Roult¹

2022

Journal of Tourism Leisure and Hospitality

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Many countries, provinces and cities around the world use major sporting events as a catalyst for tourism development. The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), through its championships and racing events, has for many years, chosen to integrate itself into capitalist and neoliberal tourism and economic models. As a motorsport industry with strong historical, economic and media roots in American culture and certain values, NASCAR generates a myriad of tourism impacts on the territories hosting these races. This study, therefore, aims, through a scoping review of the scientific literature, to take stock of the scientific knowledge produced on NASCAR and its tourism impacts. This approach allowed the analysis of 28 scientific articles in depth and to draw several analytical conclusions. First of all, an observation was noted regarding a very strong involvement of sponsors and the media in this industry, which undeniably contributes to the creation of forms of sporting imagery around the teams and drivers). These sporting imaginaries undoubtedly colour the partisan cultures and even the fan communities that are created and evolve around and within this sporting ecosystem. The study of the tourist spin-offs of NASCAR has been studied in the scientific literature but appears to be rather limited or circumscribed, and must, therefore, be widely developed empirically.. FACULTY OF TOURISM https://toleho.anadolu.edu.tr/ 2022, 4(1): 61-69

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Nascar and tourism : Analyses based on a scoping review of the literature

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2022

Journal of Tourism Leisure and Hospitality

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A Comparison of Football Fan Activism in Ukraine and Germany

2023

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During the last decade, football fans in Germany and Ukraine have become increasingly active in the struggle for their interests. This article compares their respective activism based on reasons, tactics and spaces of activism over a span of eight years. The comparison shows that national politics are a dominant motive for Ukrainian fan activism, especially after the so-called Revolution of Dignity (Euromaidan) in 2014, including the Russian invasion. Politics is so important that activism is politically framed in this context even if non-political players like club management or the football association are addressed. In Germany, football’s governance is the major reason for fan activism, as fans strive to preserve or extend their influence on clubs’ and associations’ decisions. This difference emphasises the influence of national settings on fan activism. Concerning space and tactics, the samples show similarities, as in both countries ultras are the dominant type of fan group, an intersection of global ultra culture and activism tactics exists and activism mainly takes place in football stadiums. Therefore, fan activism can be understood as a globally connected movement that is nonetheless highly determined by the respective local context.

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“13 Goals are Cool, Equal Pay is Cooler!”: Fan Activism and Leisure Identities at the 2019 Women’s World Cup

Allison

2023

Int J Sociol Leis

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Sports Fans and Fan Culture: A Critical Reflection on Fandom as Communicative Leisure in a Commodified World

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Nascar and tourism : Analyses based on a scoping review of the literature

Nascar and tourism : Analyses based on a scoping review of the literature

A Comparison of Football Fan Activism in Ukraine and Germany

“13 Goals are Cool, Equal Pay is Cooler!”: Fan Activism and Leisure Identities at the 2019 Women’s World Cup

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