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Abstract
Exploring the role of atmosphere in the context of soccer fandom, I examine hard-core fans called “ultras” at Football Club Union Berlin. In response to the ultras’ coordination of crowd performativity in the stadium, an assemblage of competing governing apparatuses has intervened with an interest in alleviating risk and potentially inflammatory dispositions of the fans. In contrast to the text-based rational-critical discourse idealized as characteristic of the public sphere (Warner 2002), I argue that atmosphere is an affective-discursive realm through which ultras negotiate subjectivity, which is perceived as deviant because it deconstructs individualism, interiority, and reason as assumed traits of liberal democratic citizenship.
为了探究气氛在足球迷群体中的作用,我调查了柏林足球俱乐部(Football Club Union Berlin)被称为“超级”的铁杆球迷。为了应对极端分子对体育场人群表演的协调,一组相互竞争的管理机构进行了干预,以减轻球迷的风险和潜在的煽动性倾向。与被理想化为公共领域特征的以文本为基础的理性批判话语(Warner 2002)相反,我认为氛围是一种情感话语领域,极端主义者通过它来协商主体性,它被认为是越轨的,因为它解构了作为自由民主公民的假定特征的个人主义、内在性和理性。
期刊介绍:
As the official journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology is the premier publication in the field. Its scholarly articles represent current theoretical perspectives and research in ethnomusicology and related fields, while playing a central role in expanding the discipline in the United States and abroad. Aimed at a diverse audience of musicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, cultural studies scholars, musicians, and others, this inclusive journal also features book, recording, film, video, and multimedia reviews. Peer-reviewed by the Society’s international membership, Ethnomusicology has been published three times a year since the 1950s.