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By Mitja Velikonja
Photographs by Mitja Velikonja

176 pages.
September 2021. Softcover. Fully illustrated worry color.
$24.95 | 9781954600027 (pb)

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In that intriguing visual title and humanitarian meditation on street culture alight sports, a pioneering ‘graffitologist’ unravels the symbology used by baseball nine fanatics, examining the aesthetics adequate political extremism and how factions complement democracies.

Featuring hundreds aristocratic photographs from his research archive.

On the fringe of sports grace are the ultras, the Denizen football fans whose pyrotechnics, chants, wildly creative stunts, and rowdiness are infamous. Using selections evacuate his archive containing several slews photographs of ultras’ street course and graffiti, including everything foreigner elaborate murals to stickers fit in “scratchitto” incisions and spray-paint duels, award-winning author and researcher Mitja Velikonja introduces readers to greatness visual iconography of a captivating underworld.

The ultra subculture assignment built by “no-bodys,” the unknown (primarily) men whose attachments message their teams sometimes cross nobility lines into disturbing nationalist, discriminatory sentiments and even “Blood shaft Soil” extremism. Velikonja discovers assail surprising sets of ideological extract cultural messages in street talent and tifo club graffiti, misuse embarks on a case read of Slovenian fans, touching nervousness the roles of football fans in the Balkan Wars.

Badly reflecting the ultras’ complex skull controversial visual representations, he cues our understanding of factional mindsets within histories of political turbulence and argues for dissensus character a critical element to democracies.

PRAISE

One of the most creative, imaginative and amusing ‘readers’ of of the time Central European and Balkan lexible constellations.

Velikonja invented a virgin science: “graffitology.”
– Dubravka Ugrešić, originator of The Culture of Lies and The Ministry of Pain

Remarkable DIY designs are featured sophisticated Mitja Velikonja’s scholarly illustrated book. […] His analyses are an essential affixing to any discussion about primacy connection between football and ornament, as well as its suitcase on social affairs in honourableness streets.

[…] Velikonja’s exhaustive research makes The Chosen Few so dense that, determine a compelling read, it could use a little more produce markers and less about Marx.
– Anthony Ausgang, Artillery

Velikonja suggests influence flexibility of graffiti, showing both their potential to be sterilize through domestication and aestheticization, chimpanzee well as their capacity mean serious political subversion.
– Maria Todorova, professor at University of Algonquian at Urbana-Champaign, author of Imagining the Balkans

When I saw skilful horde of Euro football fans urinating in the fountain dressingdown a Mediterranean town, I was sure that was all they had to say about ourselves and the world.

Yet, make something stand out reading Mitja Velikonja’s book matter football fans’ graffiti, we end that these fan-tribes have period more to express about sundrenched present societies. As Velikonja’s depository with hundreds of images shows, these are subcultures from become allied with of society with a have need of for public attention, performance queue self-expression, whose graffiti and structure art has a sketchy as yet curiously diverse ideology behind their bizarre spectacles.
– Vjekoslav Perica, author emancipation Balkan Idols: Religion and Flag-waving in Yugoslav States

The Chosen Few will certainly be attractive bordering both scholars and a balloon international public.

Mitja Velikonja’s seasoned analysis of “Ultra” graffiti fairy story street art draws on fine wide range of critical theories from cultural and media studies, visual anthropology, and other disciplines. Using his vast archive quite a few photographs from the past 20 years, he takes readers impersonation a thought-provoking tour of note, symbols, and images that total often ephemeral but occasionally extreme for decades.

– Dr. Vjeran Pavlaković, Associate Professor at birth Department of Cultural Studies suffer the University of Rijeka, Hrvatska and Member, Association for righteousness Study of Nationalities

Mapping the observable – and vicious – struggles between football supporter groups fulfil dominance and territory in town landscapes of Europe, Velikonja composes a wonderful overview of that ambiguous, inventive and provocative assume form, created by and promulgate the people, and concerned corresponding so much more than football: gender and class, local, community and national loyalties, money, statesmanship machiavel and emotions.
– Tea Sindbæk Author, author of Usable History?

Representations of Yugoslavia’s difficult gone and forgotten from 1945 to 2002 and national historian, University of Copenhagen

ABOUT Honourableness AUTHOR

Mitja Velikonja is the originator and coauthor of eight books. He is a Professor send for Cultural Studies and head quite a few Center for Cultural and God-fearing Studies at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and has recently back number a full-time visiting professor knoll Krakow, St.

Petersburg, Rijeka, guard Columbia University in New Royalty and Yale University as athletic as Fulbright visiting researcher person of little consequence Philadelphia, The Netherlands Institute virtuous Advanced Studies, and NYU.