Publisher's Synopsis
Doing Fandom presents a body of knowledge essential to football fandom research, and the study of gender, space, emotions and culture more generally.
The analytical framework follows the theory of practice, drawing on three acclaimed sociological concepts to expand current scholarship on fandom: habitus, doing gender, and claiming the right to space.
The authors apply these perspectives to interrogate the development, performative and experiential aspects of fandom, and inform analysis of fans' social and political activism beyond the stadium.
