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[...]... Bournemouth violence elicited further Opposition contrasts between swingeing Government reactions and the presence of football violence overseas While listing fan disorder in Holland and Greece in detail, Robert Wareing further maintained: 26 FOOTBALL, VIOLENCE AND SOCIAL IDENTITY The argument that England is unique or has the worst problem is wrong… We tend to take all the stick, as we did for the... ‘continuity’ and SOCIAL IDENTITY AND PUBLIC ORDER 27 ‘change’ on football hooliganism The ‘change’ lobby is comprised most prominently of Ian Taylor (see Dunning, this volume) and Steve Redhead (1991a and b; see Giulianotti, this volume), In the wake of Hillsborough, Taylor (who had been reared on football at the ground) sought to reclaim some of his earlier works’ socialist praxis on soccer violence and social. .. Stadium Disaster: final report, London: HMSO Chapter 2 Social Identity and public order Political and academic discourses on football violence Richard Giulianotti INTRODUCTION Although the world’s leading team sport, it was not until the 1960s that the social significance of football received substantive and separate attention from social scientists and historians (Harrington, 1968; Lever, 1969; I Taylor,... Stage 1: A latent and continued prevalence of the prospective policy area; little or no research is undertaken, the issue being considered an adjunct to more pressing problems or inequalities 12 FOOTBALL, VIOLENCE AND SOCIAL IDENTITY Stage 2: Alarming discovery and excited investigation of the social phenomenon; the professions are invited to investigate its manifestations, likely causes and possible remedies... and convicted, a schema which inaugurated a lengthy debate in sociological circles on the political economy of modern football and the class background of its deviant subcultures (Archetti and Romero, this volume; Cohen, 1972; Dal Lago and De Biasi, this volume; Dunning et al.‚ 1988 and this volume; Giulianotti, 1994; Hobbs and Robins, 1991; I Taylor, 1971a; Trivizas, 1980) 14 FOOTBALL, VIOLENCE AND. .. Williams and Steve Redhead As a postscript to Heysel, the Leicester researchers had maintained that 1985 did not inaugurate a fundamental 20 FOOTBALL, VIOLENCE AND SOCIAL IDENTITY change in English terrace culture (Dunning et al., 1988:246–9) John Williams of the Leicester group took this a stage further, forwarding a pessimistic and darkly ironic piece on the cohabitation of English fan racism and violence. .. doubting Douglas Hogg then reaffirmed executive faith in the membership scheme, now to be mandatory for all English league clubs: ‘The Government believe that the proposed national membership 22 FOOTBALL, VIOLENCE AND SOCIAL IDENTITY scheme will help to break the link between violence and football by excluding from grounds, and thereby deterring from travelling to matches, those who cause trouble’ (Hansard,... academic disciplines and methodologies The authors are from Argentina, Norway, Italy, the Netherlands, the United States, Scotland and England Between them, their papers broach a range of perspectives—anthropological, psychological and sociological Methods deployed include qualitative studies of primary and secondary data, through fieldwork and case histories; statistical data compilation and analysis; the... Italian football fan identity and culture Drawing on research with AC Milan, Internazionale and Genoa supporters, they argue that the Italian tifo (football fanaticism) harbours strong, often conflicting intra-city and regional animosities The most fundamental, macrocultural conflicts involve major sides divided by the mezzogiorno (see Dunning, this 4 FOOTBALL, VIOLENCE AND SOCIAL IDENTITY volume); but... produced less structural findings Pratt and Salter’s (1984:214) open-ended conclusions on football hooliganism stated that it represented ‘a meeting point for a variety of social conflicts, hostilities and prejudices’ And the first systematic, participant observation study of the policing of (Aston Villa) football SOCIAL IDENTITY AND PUBLIC ORDER 17 fans, a social dynamic central to many English writers . London: HMSO. 8 FOOTBALL, VIOLENCE AND SOCIAL IDENTITY Chapter 2 Social Identity and public order Political and academic discourses on football violence Richard. Bonney and Mike Hepworth 1 2 Social identity and public order: political and academic discourses on football violence Richard Giulianotti 9 3 Death and violence