%0 Journal Article
%T Football fans and contentious politics: The role of £¿ar£¿£¿ in the Gezi Park protests
%A Burak £¿z£¿etin
%A £¿mer Turan
%J International Review for the Sociology of Sport
%@ 1461-7218
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1012690217702944
%X This article problematizes the role played by a football fan club¡ª£¿ar£¿£¿¡ªin one of the largest social movements in Turkish political history, the Gezi Park protests of June 2013. The authors suggest that as ¡°unusual suspects¡± in social movements, £¿ar£¿£¿¡¯s role in the Gezi Park protests can be understood with the conceptual toolbox provided by theories of contentious politics. Since action repertoires, or ¡°known sequences for acting together,¡± are key to contentious politics and social movements, £¿ar£¿£¿¡¯s organized and effective performance during the Gezi Park protests shows how previous encounters with the police can be decisive in terms of social upheavals. This study suggests that £¿ar£¿£¿ members, who were already accustomed to making ethical judgments on a variety of issues both political and non-political, should be taken as a prominent example of how supporters on terraces and fan clubs facilitate the framing processes described by the social movement literature
%K £¿ar£¿£¿
%K contentious politics
%K football fans
%K Gezi Park protests
%K social movements
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1012690217702944