Dean, JM orcid.org/0000-0002-1028-0566 (2017) Politicising Fandom. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 19 (2). pp. 408-424. ISSN 1369-1481
Abstract
This article aims, first, to argue that fandom matters to politics and, second, to offer a theorisation of what I call politicised fandom. The article proceeds through three stages. Part 1 offers a brief mapping of the existing scholarship within the interdisciplinary sub-field of fan studies and alights on a definition of fandom offered by Cornel Sandvoss, before mapping some different understandings of the fandom–politics relation. Here, I argue for an emphasis on the agency and capacity of fan communities to intervene politically. Part 2 then provides an initial theorisation of politicised fandom, highlighting four key elements: productivity and consumption, community, affect and contestation. Part 3 offers some snapshots of how this politicised fandom is manifest empirically via the analysis of three similar yet different instances of politicised fandom in UK left politics: Russell Brand, Milifandom and Corbyn-mania.
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Keywords: | affect; celebrity; fandom; Labour; left politics; pop culture | ||||
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Institution: | The University of Leeds | ||||
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) | ||||
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Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications | ||||
Date Deposited: | 10 Mar 2017 10:34 | ||||
Last Modified: | 16 Jan 2018 00:17 | ||||
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1369148117701754 | ||||
Status: | Published | ||||
Publisher: | SAGE Publications | ||||
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1369148117701754 |