”We only sang songs for Serbia – then they started provoking us”: Nationalism, Identity and Violent Discourses among Football Supporters in Post-War Serbia
(2024) FKVK02 20241Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This thesis employs a theoretical framework of everyday nationalism, Social Identity Theory (SIT) and violent discourse theory to examine nationalism and identity-based violence among Serbian post-war football supporters. The Serbian supporter scene is known internationally because of the ideological standpoints brought forward in the stands, motivating a multimodal discourse analysis of these multifaceted messages.
The analysis reveals an ecosystem where nationalistic practices of Serbian supporters mobilize a shared national identity, nurturing violent discourses based on cultural constructions of reality and dynamics of in and out-group differentiation, othering and dehumanization. The analysis shows that more often than not, these... (More) - This thesis employs a theoretical framework of everyday nationalism, Social Identity Theory (SIT) and violent discourse theory to examine nationalism and identity-based violence among Serbian post-war football supporters. The Serbian supporter scene is known internationally because of the ideological standpoints brought forward in the stands, motivating a multimodal discourse analysis of these multifaceted messages.
The analysis reveals an ecosystem where nationalistic practices of Serbian supporters mobilize a shared national identity, nurturing violent discourses based on cultural constructions of reality and dynamics of in and out-group differentiation, othering and dehumanization. The analysis shows that more often than not, these violent discourses target other ethnonational groups, religious communities and the Kosovo independence, but also ’disloyal’ Serbs. This process has an impact on how everyday nationalism is performed among supporters as these practices lie close to matters of identity and cultural violence, consequently existing in the same political and ideological cycle. Moreover, some discursive themes travel across supporter practices – especially ’war legacies’ and anti-Albania sentiments.
As a result, this study proposes a theoretical and methodological framework which can be used in research on nationalist supporter scenes in post-war contexts, and thereby widens the scope of everyday nationalism. (Less)
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- author
- Lång, Norah Anna Felicia LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- FKVK02 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- football supporters, everyday nationalism, violent discourses, social identity, post-war
- language
- English
- additional info
- Thank you to Amar and all the others I have met along the way.
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- 9154015
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- 2024-07-18 14:06:05
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- 2024-07-18 14:06:05
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abstract = {{This thesis employs a theoretical framework of everyday nationalism, Social Identity Theory (SIT) and violent discourse theory to examine nationalism and identity-based violence among Serbian post-war football supporters. The Serbian supporter scene is known internationally because of the ideological standpoints brought forward in the stands, motivating a multimodal discourse analysis of these multifaceted messages.
The analysis reveals an ecosystem where nationalistic practices of Serbian supporters mobilize a shared national identity, nurturing violent discourses based on cultural constructions of reality and dynamics of in and out-group differentiation, othering and dehumanization. The analysis shows that more often than not, these violent discourses target other ethnonational groups, religious communities and the Kosovo independence, but also ’disloyal’ Serbs. This process has an impact on how everyday nationalism is performed among supporters as these practices lie close to matters of identity and cultural violence, consequently existing in the same political and ideological cycle. Moreover, some discursive themes travel across supporter practices – especially ’war legacies’ and anti-Albania sentiments.
As a result, this study proposes a theoretical and methodological framework which can be used in research on nationalist supporter scenes in post-war contexts, and thereby widens the scope of everyday nationalism.}},
author = {{Lång, Norah Anna Felicia}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{”We only sang songs for Serbia – then they started provoking us”: Nationalism, Identity and Violent Discourses among Football Supporters in Post-War Serbia}},
year = {{2024}},
}