The Last of the Working-Class Subcultures to Die? Real Tales of Football Hooligans in the Global Media Age

摘要: This chapter revisits long-term research work on aspects of the social, cultural and legal phenomenon football hooliganism, part a new theoretical trajectory in criminology sociology which my book We Have Never Been Postmodern: Theory at Speed Light (Red- head, 2011) I have called ‘post-theory’, ‘claustropolitan criminology’ sociology’. Elsewhere, suggested tentatively what such (re-)thinking might mean for directions general, hooligan particu- lar (Redhead, 2004; 2008; 2009; 2010; 2012). For research, moreover, there is chance, last, to move away from per- spectives dominated decades by Norbert Elias’s ‘civilizing process’ theory (Dunning et al., 1984; 1988; 1991; Dunning 2002; Gibbons, 2014) but also ‘idealist’ perspectives history critical criminological hooliganism. A realist beckons (Hall, 2012; Hall Winlow, 2014).