What is it about?
Football fans in Western Sydney chant to show their proud of their team, their region, to display their cultural mix and to resist to Australia's mainstream fandom culture.
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Why is it important?
This is one of the first critical studies on football chants and multiculturalism.
Perspectives
This is a very engaging research, where by joining the fans in their chants and social struggles, I have been able to capture the essence of their carnivalesque football activity.
Dr Jorge Knijnik
Western Sydney University
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This page is a summary of: Imagining a multicultural community in an everyday football carnival: Chants, identity and social resistance on Western Sydney terraces, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, September 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1012690216665356.
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