Mark Doidge is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Brighton, UK. His research focuses on political activism among football fans across Europe, particularly anti-racism and supporting refugees, and the broader political identities associated with football fandom. He is the author of Ultras: The Passion and Performance of Contemporary Football Fandom (2020), Collective Action and Football Fandom (2018) and Football Italia (2015).

Martin Lieser is an independent scholar and Senior Concept Manager at a Munich-based sports marketing agency. Before transitioning into business, he pursued a PhD in Japanese Studies from the University of Vienna, Austria. Throughout his studies his research has focused on sports culture and more particularly on the social and cultural dimensions of football fandom in Japan.

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Mark Doidge and Martin Lieser

1. Openers, witnesses, followers, and 'good guys'. A sociological study of the different roles of female and male ultra fans in confrontational situations

Bérangère Ginhoux

2. Polish ultras in the post-socialist transformation

Rados¿aw Kossakowski, Tomasz Szlendak and Dominik Antonowicz

3. Ultras in Turkey: othering, agency, and culture as a political domain

Yämur Nuhrat

4. 'The East' strikes back. Ultras Dynamo, hyper-stylization, and regimes of truth

Daniel Ziesche

5. The (Re)Constitution of football fandom: Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem and its supporters

Netta Ha-Ilan

6. Ultras in Indonesia: conflict, diversification, activism

Andy Fuller and Fajar Junaedi

7. 'Supporters, not consumers.' Grassroots supporters' culture and sports entertainment in the US

Markus Gerke

8. Social agency and football fandom: the cultural pedagogies of the Western Sydney ultras

Jorge Knijnik

9. Carnival supporters, hooligans, and the 'Against Modern Football' movement: life within the ultras subculture in the Croatian context

Benjamin Perasovi¿ and Marko Mustapi¿

10. Ethnography and the Italian Ultrà

Matthew Guschwan