Passion and violence

expression of emotions in the narratives of football organized supporters groups

Abstract

This article aims at contributing to the academic debate on the conflicts among Brazilian football contemporary organized supporters groups through a discussion, guided by the sociology of emotions, on the ways they produce meaning and express their affections. To accomplish this task, the narratives the organized supporters groups create in order to attribute significance to their practices and dispute the current discourses produced about them on the public debate were analysed. These narratives, collected between 2013 and 2018, were found in the organized supporters groups’ websites. We have observed that the organized supporters groups have their own particular methods to publicly manifest their feelings, which are connected not only to the social processes by which they attribute meaning to their experiences, but also to the social relations they stablish between themselves – mostly marked by mutual antagonism – and to the clubs they represent, and that pass through the construction of their community feeling.