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Euro 2016 and its security legacy for football supporters : a conceptual blurring of hooligans and terrorists?

DIVIŠOVÁ, Vendula

Základní údaje

Originální název

Euro 2016 and its security legacy for football supporters : a conceptual blurring of hooligans and terrorists?

Vydání

Soccer & Society, Abingdon, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2019, 1466-0970

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50601 Political science

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ne

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

EID Scopus

Klíčová slova anglicky

Fan; Football; Football fans

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 24. 4. 2020 15:10, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

This essay debates how the 2016 European Football Championship in France together with the acute terrorist threat served to pass quickly and with minimal opposition in the Parliament a controversial ‘counter-hooligan’ law. For this purpose, debates in both parliamentary chambers were explored. It is shown that in the discourse, hooliganism and terrorism were intermingled as both became part of one pervasive line of reasoning based on a sense of urgency and a need to suppress any activities that could disrupt the desired image of a successful hosting country that does not succumb to the fear of terrorism. However, the relation between the proposed ‘counter-hooligan’ measures and security at the tournament could not be satisfactorily explained by the legislators. Also, the politicians rarely attempted to understand the football-related violence and rather resorted to ‘genuine supporters/bad hooligans’ dichotomy which, however, largely ignores the complexity of the phenomenon in the country.