支持欧洲俱乐部的非洲年轻人:来自加纳阿克拉的足球迷的案例

IF 1.3 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI:10.1080/21681392.2023.2238096
Kofi Akpabli
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欧洲足球联赛在非洲,特别是在城市青年中拥有大量的追随者,这是非洲青年文化的一个方面,学术界尚未充分研究。本文探讨了这一现象及其对年轻人日常身份政治的影响,重点关注非洲流行文化如何利用全球文化趋势来吸引整个非洲大陆当地环境中的城市青年。具体来说,研究分析的是年轻人如何通过他们所选择的欧洲足球队的命运来表达他们的抱负和欲望,从而融入全球现代化。使用问卷访谈法,我采访了居住在加纳首都阿克拉的九名加纳青年,那里目前存在着一个充满活力的青年支持外国俱乐部的运动。采访结果显示,欧洲联赛的魅力引发了非洲年轻人的身份认同、归属感和政治问题。虽然有些人认为他们参加欧洲联赛是一种逃避,是对欧洲大陆相对缺乏吸引力的足球景观的一种强烈抗议,但其他人认为这是他们全球公民身份和归属感的一种表达。认识到年轻人从欧洲足球狂热中获得的乐趣,文章认为,外国足球的娱乐价值不仅“赦免”了年轻人对外国利益的忠诚,而且还为他们提供了一个强大的文化途径,让他们间接参与到他们在当地无法获得的现代性特权中。
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Young Africans supporting European clubs: the case of football fans from Accra, Ghana
The massive following that European soccer leagues enjoy in Africa, especially among urban youth, is an aspect of African youth cultures that scholarship has not adequately addressed. This paper explores the phenomenon and its implications for young people’s everyday identity politics, by focusing on how African popular cultures draw on global cultural trends to appeal to urban youth in local settings across the continent. Specifically, what is being analysed is how young people engage with global modernity by projecting their aspirations and desires through the fortunes of their adopted European soccer teams. Using the questionnaire interview method, I talked to nine Ghanaian youths living in Accra, Ghana’s capital, where there currently exists a vibrant youth support movement for foreign clubs. Findings from the interviews reveal that the glamour of European leagues trigger issues of identity, belonging, and politics among young Africans. While some consider their involvement in European leagues as an escape and a powerful protest to the comparatively unattractive soccer landscape on the continent, others perceive it as an expression of their global citizenship and belonging. Recognizing the enjoyment that young people elicit from the European soccer craze, the article argues that not only does the entertainment value of foreign soccer ‘absolve’ youth of their allegiance to foreign interests, but it also provides a powerful cultural avenue for them to vicariously participate in a modernity whose privileges they cannot access locally.
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Critical African Studies
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期刊介绍: Critical African Studies seeks to return Africanist scholarship to the heart of theoretical innovation within each of its constituent disciplines, including Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, History, Law and Economics. We offer authors a more flexible publishing platform than other journals, allowing them greater space to develop empirical discussions alongside theoretical and conceptual engagements. We aim to publish scholarly articles that offer both innovative empirical contributions, grounded in original fieldwork, and also innovative theoretical engagements. This speaks to our broader intention to promote the deployment of thorough empirical work for the purposes of sophisticated theoretical innovation. We invite contributions that meet the aims of the journal, including special issue proposals that offer fresh empirical and theoretical insights into African Studies debates.
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