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Fan protest and activism: football from below in South-Eastern Europe

This conceptual introduction seeks to frame and provide a context for the following special issue on “Football from below in South-Eastern Europe”. The special issue focus on fan activism and protest aims to understand, theorize and interpret the efforts of football fans both visible as (sub-)political actors in public space and/or as collectives engaged in experiments with new forms of club ownership and direct/participatory democracy. This introduction first details various features of the South-Eastern European context, before exploring how the texts relate to each other in terms of fan, activist and academic positionalities. Following this, one dimension to the concept of protest ‘from below’ - namely that of a strict ‘people/politics' (narod/politika) opposition - is explained and critiqued. Finally, thematic gaps within the special issue are identified and possible areas for future research are discussed.

football, activism, protest, South-Eastern Europe

Cilj je ovog konceptualnog uvoda pružiti kontekst i okvir za tematski broj „Nogomet odozdo u jugo-istočnoj Europi”. Tematski broj usredotočuje se na navijački aktivizam i protest s ciljem boljeg razumijevanja, teoretiziranja i tumačenja djelovanjâ navijača kao vidljivih (sub)političkih aktera u javnom prostoru i/ili kolektivâ koji eksperimentiraju s novim oblicima klupskog upravljanja i direktnom/participativnom demokracijom. Uvod najprije navodi neke značajke u kontekstu jugoistočne Europe, a zatim propitkuje odnos jednih tekstova prema drugim u pogledu navijačkih, aktivističkih i akademskih pozicija. Nakon toga, objašnjava se i kritizira jedna dimenzija pojma „protest odozdo”, odnosno stroga dihotomija „narod/politika”. Na kraju, utvrđuju se teme izostavljene iz tematskog broja te se raspravlja o mogućim područjima budućih istraživanja.