The Crowd in Flux: Atmosphere and the Governance of Public Affects at FC Union Berlin
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In: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 65, No. 3, 01.10.2021, p. 497-518.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The Crowd in Flux
T2 - Atmosphere and the Governance of Public Affects at FC Union Berlin
AU - Jack, Max
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Society for Ethnomusicology. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/10/1
Y1 - 2021/10/1
N2 - Exploring the role of atmosphere in the context of soccer fandom, I examine hard-core fans called "ultras" at Football Club Union Berlin. In response to the ultras' coordination of crowd performativity in the stadium, an assemblage of competing governing apparatuses has intervened with an interest in alleviating risk and potentially inflammatory dispositions of the fans. In contrast to the text-based rational-critical discourse idealized as characteristic of the public sphere (Warner 2002), I argue that atmosphere is an affective-discursive realm through which ultras negotiate subjectivity, which is perceived as deviant because it deconstructs individualism, interiority, and reason as assumed traits of liberal democratic citizenship.
AB - Exploring the role of atmosphere in the context of soccer fandom, I examine hard-core fans called "ultras" at Football Club Union Berlin. In response to the ultras' coordination of crowd performativity in the stadium, an assemblage of competing governing apparatuses has intervened with an interest in alleviating risk and potentially inflammatory dispositions of the fans. In contrast to the text-based rational-critical discourse idealized as characteristic of the public sphere (Warner 2002), I argue that atmosphere is an affective-discursive realm through which ultras negotiate subjectivity, which is perceived as deviant because it deconstructs individualism, interiority, and reason as assumed traits of liberal democratic citizenship.
KW - Didactics of art education
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85127928300&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5406/ethnomusicology.65.3.0497
DO - 10.5406/ethnomusicology.65.3.0497
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 65
SP - 497
EP - 518
JO - Ethnomusicology
JF - Ethnomusicology
SN - 0014-1836
IS - 3
ER -