'Ultras The passion and performance of contemporary football fandom by Mark Doidge, Radoslaw Kossakowski & Svenja Mintert sheds light on the very complex subculture of ultras, which makes it a highly welcome addition to the existing sociological studies on ultras and football fandom. '
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Mark Doidge is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Brighton
Radoslaw Kossakowski is Assistant Professor at the University of Gdansk
Svenja-Maria Mintert is Professor for Business and Sports Marketing at the Fresenius University in Hamburg
Introduction
1 The ultras' performance
2 It's only a game? Centralising emotions in football fandom
3 The formation of the ultras
4 Social media as a space of continuous performance
5 Ultras and the performance of gender
6 Violence and the world of the ultras
7 Ultras and politics
The ultras: a conclusion
References
Index