Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5673/sip.60.3.5
Cheering as an Emotional Practice – Bad Blue Boys and Futsal Dinamo
Dino Vukušić
orcid.org/0000-0002-8544-9610
; Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivan Hrstić
orcid.org/0000-0003-2445-3533
; Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In accordance with the concept of emotional practices by Monique Scheer, the paper analyzes
the involvement of Bad Blue Boys in Futsal Dinamo. At the same time, emotions are understood
as the basis of the fan’s subcultural style, which are defined as embodied practices. In
this context, the analysis of fan rituals and patterns of behaviour enables the recognition of the
emotional nature of Bad Blue Boys as an ultras group. This is recognized through four types
of emotional practices, as conceptualized by Scheer. But this emotional nature does not imply
irrationality, rather the emotional and rational aspects of group life are closely intertwined, and
the dominance of one or the other is situational.
Keywords
emotions; ultras; Bad Blue Boys; Futsal Dinamo; subculture
Hrčak ID:
295205
URI
Publication date:
9.3.2023.
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