Aim This paper investigates alcohol consumption within cultures of football fandom through the innovative combination theories carnivalesque and Bourdieu’s concepts habitus, field, capital.Methods Focus groups (n = 79) were conducted with supporters in England Scotland. Semi-structured interviews 15) also key organizational stakeholders. Research explored importance role for when watching or at...

Using empirical data from a questionnaire survey of residents and visitors attending the 1998 San Fermin fiesta in Pamplona, Spain, this article offers a critique of the contemporary construction of festivals as interpretive devices. Informed by the work of Bakhtin, this article makes the case that festivals should be understood as carnivalesque inversions of the everyday, deployed to maintain ...