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"We're always be there, where Sparta will play": corporeality and affective athmosphere at football stadium
Davídek, Richard ; Stöckelová, Tereza (advisor) ; Abu Ghosh, Yasar (referee)
In my diploma thesis I focus on events of football match. I use affect theories which enable me to observe these events as an interplay of persons, bodies, practices, objects, technologies and aspects of spatiality, and I focus on manners by which we can perceive these events as a form of an affective athmosphere. Within an analysis of the events of football match I work with concept of carnival. Gradually, I concern with events which accompany them and I follow their temporal and spatial rhythm, techniques of support by which supporters participate on a process of creating the athmosphere, surveillant technologies which within these events operate, and commemorative practices and protests of supporters as strategies by which relevant actors endeavour to incite a specific form of athmosphere. I demonstrate that affect is not only situational intensity but rather it becomes a form of (pre)disposition of persons, bodies as well as spatiality of the stadium while these (pre)dispositions create different experiences of the events of football match. The thesis results from a long term ethnographic research in a milieu of football supporters of AC Sparta Prague and is sustained by elements of autoethnography. Key words: body and corporeality, affect, affective athmosphere, carnival, football supporters.
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