Some Reflections on Discourses on Football Hooliganism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3334853
AutoresSteve Redhead (Faculty of Humanities Manchester Polytechnic, autor de correspondencia)
Año1991
Volumen39
Número3
Páginas479-486
Fecha de publicación1991-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-954x.1991.tb00863.x
OpenAlexW2104836373
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas3

This essay is partly a response to the recent ethnographic research carried out by Armstrong and Harris, and partly a survey of a more general set of interconnected discourses about football hooliganism as a social phenomenon over the past thirty years into which the work of Armstrong and Harris fits. Discourses on football hooliganism seemed to have proliferated just as the 'object' in question seems to have disappeared from public view; at least in Britain, if not in other parts of Continental Europe. Part of the problem lies in the difficulty of defining accurately what we mean by the highly contentious phrase 'football hooliganism', a term which has no specific referent in English or Scottish law and whose boundaries, or 'field', are demarcated by these various discourses or 'disciplines' themselves: namely legal, sociological, psychological, criminological, geographical, architectural and so on. The essay offers examples of approaches which might overcome some of the difficulties experienced in researching football hooliganism

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