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Supporters, followers, fans and flaneurs: a taxonomy of spectator identities in football
World football (or soccer) has undergone an intensive hypercommodification over the past
decade or so. This article examines the impact of this process on forms of spectator
identification with top professional football clubs. Drawing upon previous analyses by Taylor
and Critcher (on football) and the theories of Bryan Turner (on body culture), the article
advances four ideal types of spectator identity: supporters, followers, fans, and flâneurs. The
broad trend in sports identification is away from the supporter model (with its hot, traditional
identification with local clubs) and toward the more detached, cool, consumer-orientated
identification of the flâneur.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
Journal of Sport and Social IssuesVolume
26Issue
1Pages
25 - 46Citation
GIULIANOTTI, R., 2002. Supporters, followers, fans and flaneurs: a taxonomy of spectator identities in football. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 26 (1), pp. 25-46.Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2002ISSN
0193-7235eISSN
1552-7638Publisher version
Language
- en