Bulldog whistling : criminalization of young Lebanese-Australian rugby league fans

Scott Poynting

Bulldog whistling : criminalization of young Lebanese-Australian rugby league fans

Scott Poynting

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This article traces the course of a series of moral panics over the banding together, group identification and collective action of certain groups of young people - mainly young men - in and around some mass sporting events in New South Wales, Australia, in 2001-4. It could be a story of ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢"šÂ¬Ã‹Å“football hooliganismÃƒÂ¢Ã¢"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢, except that the sport is not football (or ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢"šÂ¬Ã‹Å“soccerÃƒÂ¢Ã¢"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢, as it is known in Australia), but rugby league. That such ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢"šÂ¬Ã‹Å“collective behaviourÃƒÂ¢Ã¢"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢ had been relatively unknown in this sporting milieu in Australia provided the opportunity for the racialized ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢"šÂ¬Ã‹Å“otheringÃƒÂ¢Ã¢"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢ of those labelled as deviant, in the context of the construction of the ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢"šÂ¬Ã‹Å“Arab OtherÃƒÂ¢Ã¢"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢ (and later the Muslim Other) as the pre-eminent folk demon of contemporary Australia.

Original language	English
Number of pages	26
Journal	Internet Journal of Criminology
Publication status	Published - 2005

Keywords

Australia
Bulldog Army
Lebanese
Racism in sports
Rugby League football
Social aspects

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Bulldog whistling : criminalization of young Lebanese-Australian rugby league fans

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