REPRESSIONE NEL MONDO ULTRÀ: LA TENSIONE DIALETTICA TRA STADIO, CITTÀ E SAPERI DI POLIZIA/ Repression in the Ultras Movement: Stadiums, Urban Space, and the Production of Policing Knowledge

Abstract

This article explores the evolution of state repression within symbolic space of the football stadium, analyzing how the management of “stadium violence” has reflected broader transformations in the society. By tracing the shift from sporadic disorder to securitarian control, it highlights the convergence between emergency legislation, surveillance policies, and urban disciplinary practices. The ultras become both a laboratory and a metaphor for the contemporary governance of apolitical deviance, where the dialectic between stadium and policing knowledge meets an unprecedented apparatus for urban security. In this sense, the stadium operates as a microcosm of social control, where state power, media narratives, and urban policies intertwine to produce a moral economy of repression and consent.

Keywords:

Ultras; Folk Devil; Emergency Legislation; Policing; Urban Governance.