Theorizing surveillance and social spacing through football
The fan‐opticon and beyond
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12912435 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Turner (0000-0002-8029-1703, Southampton Solent University), Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen (0000-0002-0085-2321, Liverpool John Moores University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soc4.13055 |
| OpenAlex | W4311297618 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 40 |
This article critically examines the temporal mobilizations of a 25‐year football supporter social movement against the all‐seating (stadia) legislation in England and Wales, to unpack, and advance, (neo‐)Foucauldian panoptic theorizations of surveillance power and counter‐power. Drawing upon prior empirically informed analysis of this movement; ‘Safe Standing’, the article interrogates new policy‐based outcomes, including the early adoption of ‘licensed (Safe) Standing’ technology in 2022, to argue, that whilst publicly framed as a movement victory, it simultaneously serves to prefigure a new regulatory regime in football; one which extends the regulation and surveillance of fans within the wider social and corporate lifeworld . Introducing our new concept; the ‘fan‐opticon’, the article discusses how Safe Standing continues to normalize a momentum of surveillance in sport and highlights the contradictory nature of security‐related projects in the twenty‐first century. We conclude that the governmentality of the state through football, to be characteristic of temporally sensitive hermeneutic struggles of power and resistance, through the discipline, and self‐discipline of social actors. New forms of subjectivity are remoulded in ways which extend the power of surveillance and regulation, despite multiple counter‐conduct, and discursive, resistance practices
Biopower · Epistemology · Football · Governmentality · Panopticon · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Resistance (ecology · Social movement · Sociology · Subjectivity · Victory · Doping in Sports · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
Beyond ‘good’ and ‘bad’ fans
Coordinating security, managing crowds, and marketing social control
Graphic heritage calling
Only a game? The politics of football, the English Premier League, and its wider international relations
Safety and Security Battles
Towards a Beckian Approach to Social Movements
Locating the Supporter Liaison Officer in the football field
Generations, events, and social movement legacies
Football Fans and Social Spacing
An ethnography of English football fans
Football Fans, Activism and Social Change
The Subject and Power
The theory of communicative action
Foucault
The Global Football League
Sport Mega-Events, Security and Covid-19
Social Movements and Protest
British Football & Social Exclusion
Consuming Sport
Individualization
Critique and power
Reassembling the Social
Social media and the doping of sport surveillance
Transnational Crime and Transnational Policing
New Media, Web 2.0 and Surveillance
The Viewer Society
The discourse of Olympic security
Sport Mega Events, Urban Football Carnivals and Securitised Commodification
Spatialities of security and surveillance
Saying Something
Images from a Neoliberal City
Discipline and Punish
The Governmentalities of Neoliberalism
The Safe Standing movement
Avenues of contestation. Football hooligans running and ruling urban spaces
The Spatial Development of the Modern Stadium
Protests and Policies
After Snowden
The Sociology of Sociability
The Talk and Back Talk of Collective Action
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |