Abstract

CABRERA, Nicolás. Violence, Stigmatization and Displacement: The Social and Moral Reshaping of the Fans of the “Pirates” Soccer Team, from a Procedural Perspective. Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol. [online]. 2018, n.30, pp.129-150. ISSN 1900-5407.  https://doi.org/10.7440/antipoda30.2018.07.

In this paper we seek understand and explain a particular social phenomenon: the reshaping of the social and moral behavior of a group of fans of the “Club Atlético Belgrano” soccer team of Córdoba, Argentina, which is known as Los Piratas (The Pirates). In more specific terms, we aim to show that it became possible for those fans to change their habitually violent behavior to one that is relatively peaceful now. For this purpose, the first section discusses the effectiveness of certain symbolic acts which helped to overturn the fans´ tolerance of violence in the most important sector of the moral universe of Los Piratas: the tribunal popular or section of the stadium, with the cheapest tickets, where young fans sit. The second section relates the “case of Belgrano” to broader social phenomena in the context of violence by young soccer fans, policies for safe sports events and the mechanisms of social control used by our contemporary societies. An approach to these social phenomena cannot be reductionist and simplistic, hence our study follows an integral and combinatory approach which links a situational and ethnographic analysis of the fans of the Belgrano team with a holistic one. We do not refer to "representativeness" or a linear relationship between the "micro" and the "macro": instead, we think of it in terms of an “interactive overlap” of such processes (Geertz 2006, 53). We likewise propose a methodological triangulation, where quantitative and the qualitative techniques complement each other.

Keywords : anthropology; sociology; sport; violence; security; moral; stigmatization..

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