"Ni är inte hemma i soffan nu!" - Supporterkultur hos kvinnor i klacken i allsvenska herrfotbollslaget BK Häcken

Abstract

When I was in the process of starting this essay I had no idea about what I wanted to investigate. I read the book Etnografiska hållplatser, a book about reflexivity and methodology while doing field studies and working with ones material, in a predecending course and it came to me! I knew that some among my women friends are soccer supporters for the local male soccer team. This came with predjudisms. And lots of curiosity. This is a study to see what my female friends supporters see in the local soccer support team for BK Häcken. And why the team supporters has a no bad reputation, while the area we live in is one with a bad reputation? I preformed interviews with three informants and I made field studies during home games. And what I found is something very different from the usual norm of a suporterclub. This is a supporter club that, through the teams CSR, is not using violence, racist or sexist slurs. And if someone does use a slur of some sort, the other team supporters help with telling each others to stop. Its also a place where my female informants feel safe within a group that is mainly consisting of men.