Football Fans, Activism and Social Change

Dino Numerato is Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He obtained his PhD from Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic) and was a Research Fellow at Loughborough University (Loughborough, UK), Bocconi University (Milan, Italy) and Sapienza University (Rome, Italy). His principal research interests include football fandom, social theory, sport governance, sport policy, mass media and sport, corruption in sport and match-fixing, and the sociology of health-care professionals. His work has also been published in Sociology, Current Sociology, Qualitative Research, Journal of Consumer Culture, Sociology of Health and Illness, Journal of Sport and Social Issues and International Review for the Sociology of Sport.

• 1. Wind of Change: An Introduction 2. The Football Fan Activism Complex 3.Fan Activism in National and Transnational Contexts 4. Reflexivity and Social Change 5. Fans’ Struggle Over Policing, Security Measures and Criminalization 6. Fans’ Struggle Over Socio-Cultural Aspects: Identities, Symbols and Rituals 7. Fans’ Struggle Over Governance: Mismanagement, Involvement and Ownership 8. Discussion and Conclusions

"This book provides a detailed view of fan-based activism and of fans’ response to globalisation and commodification processes that have affected football over the past decades. By analysing fans’ activities, it can be said that some aspects of their struggles can be applied to an analysis of the wider social context. This book, with its extraordinary contribution to this field of social sciences, is an excellent roadmap for further research into the phenomena of fan activism and processes of change in modern sports, especially football." - Dino Vukušić, Institute of Social Sciences ‘Ivo Pilar’