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Having the Balls: Reflections on Doing Gendered Research with Football Hooligans

Poulton, E.

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K. Lumsden
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A. Winter
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Abstract

The chapter identifies the methodological challenges (re)negotiated and managed as a female academic researching the hyper-masculine subculture of ‘football hooliganism’. It provides some methodological strategies and field tips that researchers may find useful to help navigate some of the complicated gender and power issues that can arise during the research. Doing gendered research (especially with deviant subcultures) can sometimes require the researcher to demonstrate that they have the metaphorical ‘balls’ in terms of handling particular situations and power relations – including sometimes feeling ‘powerless’ – and the emotional labour this demands.

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Poulton, E. (2014). Having the Balls: Reflections on Doing Gendered Research with Football Hooligans. In K. Lumsden, & A. Winter (Eds.), Reflexivity in criminological research : experiences with the powerful and powerless (77-89). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137379405.0011

Online Publication Date Oct 1, 2014
Publication Date Oct 1, 2014
Deposit Date Jul 14, 2014
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 77-89
Book Title Reflexivity in criminological research : experiences with the powerful and powerless.
Chapter Number 6
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137379405.0011

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