The Construction of Political Representations around the Football Team of Russia
[Konstruirovanie politicheskikh predstavlenii vokrug futbol’noi sbornoi Rossii]
Type of publication: Research Article
Submitted: 26.10.2017
Accepted: 18.12.2017
About author(s)
Ekaterina Gloriozova | http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1129-4756 | eglorioz@ulb.ac.be | Université libre de Bruxelles, CEVIPOL (44, avenue Jeanne, 1050, Bruxelles)
Keywords
Russia, national football team, football clubs, football fans, identification, politicization
Abstract
The article is drawn on semi-structured interviews with Muscovite football fans of “Spartak”, “Dynamo”, “Torpedo” and “TsSKA”, conducted in 2014. Based on the concrete case of the relation towards the national football team, this article aims at analyzing its role in the construction of relations toward politics and its expression in the football sphere. First, the article shows how the support towards the national team can act as a catalyst for patriotic feelings. Second, it focuses on how the relation to the national team can lead to the construction of a critical political discourse.
Citation
Gloriozova, E. 2018. The Construction of Political Representations around the Football Team of Russia [Konstruirovanie politicheskikh predstavlenii vokrug futbol’noi sbornoi Rossii]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 2: 44-57. https://doi.org/10.7868/S0869541518020045
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