Football and Discrimination

This book takes a close look at discrimination in football in order to illuminate our understanding of the interaction between sport and wider society, politics and culture, particularly in terms of the (re)production of identity.

Auteur

Pavel Brunssen is a PhD candidate at the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, USA, where he is also pursuing a graduate certificate in Judaic Studies at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. His main research interests include antisemitism and antigypsyism in European football fan cultures. In 2011, Pavel cofounded a magazine called Transparent, of which he was editor in chief until 2017, that focuses on the political aspects of soccer fan cultures. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum is a historian and Director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism, Germany. She is also Co-Director of the Selma-Stern- Center for Jewish Studies, Germany, and directs the Berlin branch of the Center for Research on Social Cohesion. Her fields of research include Jewish, German, and Spanish history.

Contenu

Introduction 1

PAVEL BRUNSSEN AND STEFANIE SCHÜLER-SPRINGORUM PART I

Prologue 9 1 Collective identity and forms of abuse and discrimination in football fan culture: A case study on antisemitism 11 EMMA POULTON PART II

Ressentiment 35 2 The image of the "Judenklub" in interwar European soccer: Myth or reality? 37 RUDOLF OSWALD 3 The sociopolitical roots of antisemitism among football fandom: The real absence and imagined presence of Jews in Polish football 47 JACEK BURSKI AND WOJCIECH WOZNIAK 4 Antisemitism in German football since the 1980s 65 FLORIAN SCHUBERT 5 Antisemitic ressentiment-communication directed at RB Leipzig in German football fan culture: The third other 81 PAVEL BRUNSSEN

**PART III

Identity 95

6 Self-directed racialized humor as in-group marker among migrant players in a professional football team: "Dude, Just

Draw the Racist Card!" 97 SOLVEJG WOLFERS 7 Racism and interethnic conflict in Amateur football: The case of migrant sports clubs in Germany 111 SILVESTER STAHL 8 Struggling to belong in the face of otherness: The Atlanta Fútbol club of Buenos Aires 127 RAANAN REIN PART IV

(Anti-)discrimination 139 9 Appealing to a common identity: The case of antisemitism in Dutch football 141 JORAM VERHOEVEN AND WILLEM WAGENAAR 10 Eintracht Frankfurt fans and the museum: Football history, remembrance culture, and the fight against antisemitism 152 MATTHIAS THOMA AND MARTIN LIEPACH 11 A comment on several specific aspects of remembrance and education projects in football 166 ANDREAS KAHRS 12 The twofold American exceptionalism in soccer fandom: Anti-discriminatory activism among organized soccer supporters in the US 179 MARKUS GERKE

**PART V

Epilogue 197 13 What is it about association football - the arrogantly self-appointed "Beautiful Game" - that renders most (though not all) of its fan cultures so ugly? 199 ANDREI S. MARKOVITS