Racism and Russian Football Supporters’ Culture

Arnold, Richard; Veth, K. Manuel

doi:10.1080/10758216.2017.1414613

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“…For most Russian soccer clubs, revenues from ticket sales and broadcasting are relatively low in comparison with their budgets [ 25 ], nonetheless, supporters attitudes may affect the decision to sign a player. Research by Coates et al [ 26 ] finds no evidence that Russian fans discriminate against foreign players; however, Arnold and Veth [ 27 ] describe the under-institutionalized Russian fan culture and violent behavior of supporters.…”

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After the Crimea crisis: Employee discrimination in Russia and Ukraine

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This paper examines the issue of employee discrimination after a political crisis: the annexation of Crimea. The annexation, which resulted in a political crisis in Russian-Ukrainian relations, is a setting which allows us to test if a bilateral political issue caused employee discrimination. We use a quasi-experimental approach to examine how the political crisis influenced participation in major sports leagues in Russia and Ukraine. The results show that the employment conditions significantly worsened since the Crimea crisis started.

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“…Numerous studies offer insight into how such a process operates, including Nelson (2005) on how Jews in New York City used basketball as a means of connecting to the local population. Today, sport is used as a vehicle by anti-racism campaigners who seek to rid their sports of nasty associations, such as the Kick It Out campaign, which started in the UK but has since spread over Europe and Russia (Arnold and Veth 2018). Sport is also used as a way of promoting women's rights as well as those of minorities, especially in the Global South.…”

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“…Domestically, sport (especially football) has sometimes been associated with racism and xenophobia. The conventional story about how far right ideas of ethnic exclusivity became associated with football starts in England in the late 1970s, when the militant wing of the British National Party saw in the football terraces a ready source of recruits for their cause (Arnold and Veth 2018). Of course, there were many other contributory factors-such as the location of stadia and increased immigration from the former colonies (Symanski and Zimbalist 2005;Back, Crabbe, and Solomos 1999)-but the main point is that soccer became a vehicle to express an ethnically distinctive and pure form of the nation.…”

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“…Today, most of the concern about xenophobic nationalism and soccer is concentrated on Eastern Europe, where comparatively homogenous nations have existed longer than in the West. Indeed, prior to the Russian World Cup in 2018, numerous journalists and scholars expressed worries about the connections between racism and football culture (Arnold and Foxall 2018;Arnold and Veth 2018;Glathe 2016;Gorshunov and Gorshunova 2015). Similarly, before the 2012 Euro championship finals in Poland and Ukraine, there were concerns about racist fans, which some argued was in fact a reflection of the insecurities of those reporting such concerns (Wawrzyczek, 2017).…”

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Nationalism and Sport: A Review of the Field

Arnold

2020

Nationalities Papers

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The connection between nationalism and sport seems at once both obvious and manifest, with the most lavish praise of the nation often arising at sporting events. While a sizeable body of academic literature exists on the connection between the two concepts, it remains overlapping and unstructured. This state of the field review essay accounts for the major works in this field and categorizes it according to the function it fulfills in the subfield. Specifically, it focuses on sport as a mechanism for the diffusion and creation of nationalism, sport under conditions of globalization at Sporting Mega Events (SMEs), and the connection between sport and the distinction between civic and ethnic definitions of nationality.

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“…This article looks at the 2018 FIFA World Cup hosted by 11 Russian cities from the viewpoint of its multiple visual representations in English and Russian language digital media in 2016–2019. The bulk of the extant academic works on this mega-event analyzes it from the perspectives of security (Ludvigsen, 2018; Wong & Chadwick, 2017), legal issues (Lelyukhin, 2014), sportive fandom (Arnold & Veth, 2018; Glathe & Varga, 2018), identity-making and nation-building (Makarychev & Yatsyk, 2017, 2018), and urban studies (Makarychev & Yatsyk, 2015). Our contribution to the scholarly debate consists in focusing on visual representations of the World Cup hosts and conceptualizing them through the lens of what we term hegemonic regimes of visibility.…”

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The 2018 World Cup in Russia and Its Regimes of Visibility: The Cases of Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan

Makarychev

Yatsyk

2020

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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The article addresses visualizations of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russian and international digital media. Drawing on the scholarship on discoursive hegemony, the authors intoduce a concept of hegemonic regime of visibility as a general frame for understanding the dominant ways of visualizing mega-events which comprise elements of attractiveness and enjoyment, on one hand, and surveillance, control, and security, on the other. Based on the cases of Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan, the authors argue, first, that the 2018 World Cup’s hegemonic regime of visibility, co-administered by FIFA and Russian government, implied a hierarchy of performative roles prescribed to the host cities as major promoters of the event. Second, local authorities in Russia used this regime for self-(re)branding to advertise the cities/regions as parts of the global world and authentically specific spaces with unique folkloric and ethnic traditions. Third, the FIFA hegemonic regime of visibility was challenged by alternative incursions that destabilized and infused new meanings in the dominant visual order.

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Racism and Russian Football Supporters’ Culture

Cited by 9 publications

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After the Crimea crisis: Employee discrimination in Russia and Ukraine

After the Crimea crisis: Employee discrimination in Russia and Ukraine

Nationalism and Sport: A Review of the Field

The 2018 World Cup in Russia and Its Regimes of Visibility: The Cases of Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan

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