Citizen, consumer, citimer: The interplay of market and political identities within contemporary football fan cultures

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/1469540517744692" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1177/1469540517744692</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1469540517744692" target="_blank" >10.1177/1469540517744692</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Citizen, consumer, citimer: The interplay of market and political identities within contemporary football fan cultures

Original language description

This article examines how football, sport and other cultural fields are characterized by complex interrelations between citizen&apos; and consumer&apos; identities. Our analysis centres specifically on critically examining and developing the concept of citimer&apos; (citizen-consumer) with respect to activist supporter groups within European professional men&apos;s football. First, to establish the structural and cultural context for our analysis, we argue that the emergence of citizen-consumer identities in football has been driven by five underlying processes: globalization, commodification, securitization, mediatization and postmodernization. Critical football fan movements have responded to these changes through greater reflexivization and politicization. Second, drawing on the broad academic literature, we develop the concept of the citizen-consumer (or citimer&apos;) and introduce its relevance to football. Third, to provide a more nuanced understanding of the citizen-consumer, we explore how this citimer&apos; identity is constructed in two ways: from below&apos; (by fan groups themselves at everyday level) and from above&apos; (by clubs, governing bodies, media and other powerful forces within the football system). In both instances, we find that the citizen and consumer aspects of the citimer identity are interrelated in complex ways. Fourth, we conclude by highlighting the political reflexivity of citimers and areas for future research. Our analysis draws on extensive data collection: with football supporters and officials in the Czech Republic, England and Italy and at the wider European level, and through access to diverse primary and secondary documents (e.g. policy papers, fanzines and online forums). Our findings may be applied to examine citimer identities, practices and social relations not just within football and sport but in many other cultural fields, such as art, communication, drama, fashion, film and music.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Consumer Culture

ISSN

1469-5405

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

336-355

UT code for WoS article

000432087600007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85046817115