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- Title
Hooligan Writing and the Study of Football Fan Culture: Problems and Possibilities.
- Authors
Redhead, Steve
- Abstract
This essay looks at problems and possibilities associated with research into football hooligan memoirs, or what has been called hit and tell literature. It captures material from a continuing research project on the link between football hooligans writing their own (his)tories and the history of British football hooligan subcultures, especially with regard to 'casual' youth culture. Interviews with the writers of these football hooligan memoirs illuminate a number of complex issues around oral history and working class writing. The research is situated at the intersection between oral history, leisure studies, cultural criminology, and post-subcultural studies. The essay considers some implications for the study of male dominated youth subcultures and the methodologies to be employed. The essay claims that the study of hooligan literature might lead, ultimately, to better informed ethnographies of subcultures.
- Subjects
SOCCER hooliganism; HOODLUMS; FOOTBALL fans; FOOTBALL; ETHNOLOGY
- Publication
Nebula, 2009, Vol 6, Issue 3, p16
- ISSN
1449-7751
- Publication type
Article