Mark Doidge is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Brighton, UK. His research focuses on political activism among football fans across Europe, particularly anti-racism and supporting refugees, and the broader political identities associated with football fandom. He is the author of Ultras: The Passion and Performance of Contemporary Football Fandom (2020), Collective Action and Football Fandom (2018) and Football Italia (2015). Martin Lieser is an independent scholar and Senior Concept Manager at a Munich-based sports marketing agency. Before transitioning into business, he pursued a PhD in Japanese Studies from the University of Vienna, Austria. Throughout his studies his research has focused on sports culture and more particularly on the social and cultural dimensions of football fandom in Japan.

• IntroductionMark Doidge and Martin Lieser1. Openers, witnesses, followers, and ‘good guys’. A sociological study of the different roles of female and male ultra fans in confrontational situationsBérangère Ginhoux2. Polish ultras in the post-socialist transformationRadosław Kossakowski, Tomasz Szlendak and Dominik Antonowicz3. Ultras in Turkey: othering, agency, and culture as a political domain Yağmur Nuhrat4. ‘The East’ strikes back. Ultras Dynamo, hyper-stylization, and regimes of truthDaniel Ziesche5. The (Re)Constitution of football fandom: Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem and its supportersNetta Ha-Ilan6. Ultras in Indonesia: conflict, diversification, activismAndy Fuller and Fajar Junaedi7. ‘Supporters, not consumers.’ Grassroots supporters’ culture and sports entertainment in the USMarkus Gerke8. Social agency and football fandom: the cultural pedagogies of the Western Sydney ultrasJorge Knijnik9. Carnival supporters, hooligans, and the ‘Against Modern Football’ movement: life within the ultras subculture in the Croatian context Benjamin Perasović and Marko Mustapić10. Ethnography and the Italian UltràMatthew Guschwan

Mark Doidge is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Brighton, UK. His research focuses on political activism among football fans across Europe, particularly anti-racism and supporting refugees, and the broader political identities associated with football fandom. He is the author of Ultras: The Passion and Performance of Contemporary Football Fandom (2020), Collective Action and Football Fandom (2018) and Football Italia (2015). Martin Lieser is an independent scholar and Senior Concept Manager at a Munich-based sports marketing agency. Before transitioning into business, he pursued a PhD in Japanese Studies from the University of Vienna, Austria. Throughout his studies his research has focused on sports culture and more particularly on the social and cultural dimensions of football fandom in Japan.

• IntroductionMark Doidge and Martin Lieser1. Openers, witnesses, followers, and ‘good guys’. A sociological study of the different roles of female and male ultra fans in confrontational situationsBérangère Ginhoux2. Polish ultras in the post-socialist transformationRadosław Kossakowski, Tomasz Szlendak and Dominik Antonowicz3. Ultras in Turkey: othering, agency, and culture as a political domain Yağmur Nuhrat4. ‘The East’ strikes back. Ultras Dynamo, hyper-stylization, and regimes of truthDaniel Ziesche5. The (Re)Constitution of football fandom: Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem and its supportersNetta Ha-Ilan6. Ultras in Indonesia: conflict, diversification, activismAndy Fuller and Fajar Junaedi7. ‘Supporters, not consumers.’ Grassroots supporters’ culture and sports entertainment in the USMarkus Gerke8. Social agency and football fandom: the cultural pedagogies of the Western Sydney ultrasJorge Knijnik9. Carnival supporters, hooligans, and the ‘Against Modern Football’ movement: life within the ultras subculture in the Croatian context Benjamin Perasović and Marko Mustapić10. Ethnography and the Italian UltràMatthew Guschwan

Mark Doidge is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Brighton, UK. His research focuses on political activism among football fans across Europe, particularly anti-racism and supporting refugees, and the broader political identities associated with football fandom. He is the author of Ultras: The Passion and Performance of Contemporary Football Fandom (2020), Collective Action and Football Fandom (2018) and Football Italia (2015). Martin Lieser is an independent scholar and Senior Concept Manager at a Munich-based sports marketing agency. Before transitioning into business, he pursued a PhD in Japanese Studies from the University of Vienna, Austria. Throughout his studies his research has focused on sports culture and more particularly on the social and cultural dimensions of football fandom in Japan.

• IntroductionMark Doidge and Martin Lieser1. Openers, witnesses, followers, and ‘good guys’. A sociological study of the different roles of female and male ultra fans in confrontational situationsBérangère Ginhoux2. Polish ultras in the post-socialist transformationRadosław Kossakowski, Tomasz Szlendak and Dominik Antonowicz3. Ultras in Turkey: othering, agency, and culture as a political domain Yağmur Nuhrat4. ‘The East’ strikes back. Ultras Dynamo, hyper-stylization, and regimes of truthDaniel Ziesche5. The (Re)Constitution of football fandom: Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem and its supportersNetta Ha-Ilan6. Ultras in Indonesia: conflict, diversification, activismAndy Fuller and Fajar Junaedi7. ‘Supporters, not consumers.’ Grassroots supporters’ culture and sports entertainment in the USMarkus Gerke8. Social agency and football fandom: the cultural pedagogies of the Western Sydney ultrasJorge Knijnik9. Carnival supporters, hooligans, and the ‘Against Modern Football’ movement: life within the ultras subculture in the Croatian context Benjamin Perasović and Marko Mustapić10. Ethnography and the Italian UltràMatthew Guschwan