From football stadium to revolution and war frontlines

Ukrainian ultras and the conversion of their capital

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ID6297529
AuthorsOlga Ruzhelnyk (0000-0002-8144-189X, Institut des sciences sociales du politique, Universite Paris-Nanterre, France, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume45
Issue2
Pages209-223
Publication date2024-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0192-5121 • E-ISSN: 1460-373X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/01925121231202013
OpenAlexW4387577108
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited8

The behaviour of football fans in Ukraine has often taken the form of public order offences. However, since Maidan, fans have enjoyed a more positive image, linked to their recognition by and assimilation into Ukrainian society through their social and political activities. Eventually becoming one of the driving forces of revolutionary events and contributing to regime change, football fans have taken an active part in hostilities in the east of the country since 2014. This article explores the links between football fans, their collective violent practices and their social transformation before Maidan, at the time of Maidan and in the post-Maidan period. The author presents the idea of the connection between the conversion of various types of capital and the application of different kinds of collective violent practices, which can affect the status of the group within society

Capital (architecture · Football · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Stadium · Ukrainian · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies · History · Law · Martial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education · Sports, Gender, and Society

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