Cultural Politics Of Youth Football Fans

This article mainly discusses the daily cultural practice of the young fans of Shanghai Shenhua Team in the Chinese Super League.It uses Foucault’s micro-power perspective and the research paradigm of political anthropology to observe the significance of this subculture group in daily football-related behaviors.And through the dialogue of the Birmingham School’s youth subculture theory to interpret the connotation of cultural politics of the young fans’interaction on the court and Internet space.By adopting ethnographic methods such as anthropological participation in observation,the author divided the field points of this study into online and offline parts.Online field work is mainly carried out in the virtual space where fans gather in the Internet,collecting relevant empirical materials through long-term online interaction and observation.The offline field work is mainly done around the Shanghai Hongkou Stadium,the home of Shenhua.Through the completion of the pre-match,mid-game and post-match linear participation in the fans’ activities,catch the interpretation of the meaning of football from those people.Finally,integrate and analyze the empirical materials collected online and offline,and then write them into papers.The author find that the youth subculture theory is combined with the empirical materials of this research.The meanings of cultural politics expressed by the youth fans’subculture can indeed be interpreted by analyzing the cultural style,resistance and collection of Shenhua fans.However,there are some doubts about the romantic interpretation of the "resistance" meaning of subculture in this theory.At the same time,the author found that the use of online and offline field methods in the re-study process has certain reliability in the study of subculture.In addition,the author also tried to give the academic community a new vision to interpret subcultures.