Hated and Proud: Ultras Contra Modernity
| Hated and Proud: Ultras Contra Modernity | |
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| Author(s) | Mark Dyal |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Politics, Sports |
| Publisher | Arktos |
| Publication year | 2018 |
| Pages | 352 |
| ISBN | 1912079232 |
Hated and Proud: Ultras Contra Modernity is a book by American anthropologist and writer Mark Dyal, PhD, published in 2018 by Arktos.
Publisher description
"Wednesday, May 2, 2018. Daniele De Rossi stands in the afterglow of another heartbreaking defeat for the AS Roma soccer team. Disappointed by the loss, the AS Roma captain nonetheless looks elated. He speaks to a reporter about more than the game, describing the sensation of pride, love, and ‘the essence of being Roman,’ that was given him by the crowd. There is no doubt to anyone that De Rossi is speaking of the Ultras in Curva Sud.
Pride. Love. The essence of being Roman.
And yet these same organized, ritualized, aggrandizing, and ‘Ultra’ fanatical soccer fans are invariably described in the media as violent and thuggish, and often racist and fascist.
Violent. Thuggish. Racist. Fascist.
For years Mark Dyal struggled with the evident disparity between the pageantry of the Ultras and their propensity for violence and extreme politics; so much so that he moved to Rome and lived amongst the Ultras for fifteen months, seeking to understand them as an important and instructive phenomenon.
Hated and Proud is the story of what he discovered in Rome, both within Curva Sud and within himself. Neither memoir nor journalistic exposé, Hated and Proud is instead an intense, but academic, engagement with the Ultras and their theoretical, historical, and political influences."[1]
Contents
Acknowledgment and Dedication
1. Ultras Contra Modernity
2. The Everyday Life of the Ultras
3. Ultra Practices and Their Consequences
4. Ultras, the State, and Violence
5. The Agonistic Form of Life of the Ultras: Opposition and Life as War
6. Romanità and the Ultras
7. Globalization and Local Particularity
8. Circo Massimo and the Ultra War Against Calcio Moderno
9. Conclusion
Afterword: Hated and Proud
Bibliography
Index
Publication data
- Hated and Proud: Ultras Contra Modernity, Mark Dyal, 2018, Arktos, ISBN-10: 1912079232, ISBN-13: 978-1-912079-23-0
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