¡Yo soy azul! La imitación y el aguante en barras bravas de Bogotá

Abstract

The general objective guiding the research was: Interpret the participation in the festive and the permanence in the violent, among the supporters grouped in the “barras bravas”, as forms of socialization for the constitution of memory, the configuration of identity and the emergence of new ways of being together, enabling the conformation of a social subjectivity in the context of football. In this aspect, this research was developed with supporters in Bogotá –grouped in Blue Rain and in Comandos Azules Distrito Capital, CADC–, those who exhibit festive expressions and violent behaviors, inside and around the Nemesio Camacho “El Campín” stadium; before, during and after the matches played by Millonarios Fútbol Club. In the development of the research work, the external perspective was taken into account and, in addition, the internal position, that is to say, imitation is the “etic” point of view and “el aguante” is the “emic” position. Imitation and “el aguante” allow us to understand the socialization among the supporters (subjects) in the “barras bravas” (social groups). Imitation is the conceptual reference, category of analysis proposed by Gabriel Tarde and “el aguante” is the empirical referent, constituted from the practices and the narrations of the supporters in the “barras bravas”. And in relation to the approach and the methodological orientation, ethnographic fieldwork was used since it allows us to be there (inside and outside the stadium) with the supporters in the “barras bravas”. This work is the result of the research carried out in the line of “Subjectivities, differences and narratives” of the Doctorate in Social Studies of the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas.