You said verbal violence. The protest songs of the Algerian ultras
Ali-Bencherif, Mohammed Zakaria
You said verbal violence. The protest songs of the Algerian ultras - 2023.
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In Algeria, football fandom has taken off in recent years, despite intensifying violence in the stadiums. When the ultras appeared, so too did a form of symbolic contestation. Mounting a secondary display on the stadium bleachers, these fans chant scathing lyrics, full of satire and irony, directed at their political leaders. This article combines discourse analysis with analysis of urban sociolinguistics, and it addresses the question of verbal violence and the power of words. It reveals, beyond the violence generated by a situation of confrontation and by the limits placed on freedom of expression, a reappropriation of the stadium as a space to express malaise and denounce the practices of a secretive political system.
You said verbal violence. The protest songs of the Algerian ultras - 2023.
47
In Algeria, football fandom has taken off in recent years, despite intensifying violence in the stadiums. When the ultras appeared, so too did a form of symbolic contestation. Mounting a secondary display on the stadium bleachers, these fans chant scathing lyrics, full of satire and irony, directed at their political leaders. This article combines discourse analysis with analysis of urban sociolinguistics, and it addresses the question of verbal violence and the power of words. It reveals, beyond the violence generated by a situation of confrontation and by the limits placed on freedom of expression, a reappropriation of the stadium as a space to express malaise and denounce the practices of a secretive political system.
Réseaux sociaux